So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes

GitHub is rebuilding its core Git storage architecture to handle a surge in AI-agent-driven activity, with internal tests showing a 35x write improvement and a design aimed at reducing outages without changing developer workflows or security controls. For CIOs and technology leaders, this underscores that AI adoption is creating new infrastructure pressure on foundational platforms, and IT organizations should expect to rework storage, scalability, and reliability assumptions for source control and CI/CD systems.