{
  "id": 16930018,
  "title": "GitHub says it's seeing 7.4B commits per month, up from 2.9B in August, and has added 4M CPU cores and 160PB of storage in 2026 so far to support this growth (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/github-says-its-seeing-7-4b-commits-per-month-up-from-2-9b-in-august",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-28T16:35:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://thenewstack.io/github-7-4b-commits-september/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "GitHub reported at its GitHub Universe conference on Wednesday that the platform is now seeing 7.4 billion commits per month. This follows a period of rapid growth, with monthly commits rising from 1.4 billion in April to 2.9 billion in August, according to The New Stack. The company attributes this unprecedented demand largely to \"agentic demand.\"\n\nTo support this growth, GitHub has added 4 million CPU cores and 160 petabytes of high-speed storage so far in 2026. The company also added 50 Tb/s of network capacity and increased compute power for GitHub Actions. The New Stack reports that GitHub is also working to rearchitect its platform to separate compute and storage, a move that internal benchmarks suggest can deliver up to 35x higher write throughput.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}