Top Ten Worst Repositories to host on GitHub

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GitHub recounts real failure modes: built Lariat caching layer to collapse thousands of identical fetches, developed Spokes ref-update bottleneck mitigation for merge-button storms, and throttled a hackathon that produced ~7,000 pushes in an hour. Surprising numbers include a 365 GB repo filled with repeated images, 260k commits and constant fetches from CocoaPods (broken by shallow-clone workflow), and repositories with hundreds of thousands of tiny files or 26,000 distinct commit authors that force expensive maintenance.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:35Git Infrastructure Team
3. 1:12Long tail of unusual interactions
4. 2:23github/github
5. 4:46kubernetes/kubernetes
6. 7:37commitwars/commitwars
7. 11:11whosonfirst-data/whosonfirst-data-venue-us-ny
8. 12:09gambuzzi/gambuzzi github.io
9. 13:50Cocoa Pods/Specs
10. 19:586.5 hubblestack/hubblestack_data
11. 22:31barryclark/jekyll now
12. 30:07Very big networks
13. 34:09enkidevs/comunit
14. 37:10Conclusions

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