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GitHub's engineers on running the platform and building its developer tools: making Issues navigation instant, case folding source code at memory speed, improving Copilot code review quality, agentic workflows and taming dependency updates. Especially useful if you care about developer tooling and keeping a huge, long lived web application fast.
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