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Re:The technology behind GitHub’s new code search on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @09:49AM (#34693456)
> Shard by Git blob object ID which gives us a nice way of evenly distributing documents between the shards while avoiding any duplication. There won’t be any hot servers due to special repositories and we can easily scale the number of shards as necessary.

What exactly do they mean by "special repositories" here?

Re:IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @07:27PM (#14093431)
You don't throw out the basket for one bad egg.
Re:Ask HN: Single Person startup/company? on Sunday July 10, 2016 @08:29PM (#12068032)
Been following your blog for a while now Peter, since I first came across the article Wired did about you. I'd love it if you wrote a post about this, and your success in generalup until this point!