20× the CI traffic without getting slower: How we rebuilt Git serving at Datadog

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Summary

Datadog rebuilt its Git serving infrastructure to handle 20× more CI traffic without slowing down, according to a company engineering post.

Key facts

  • Datadog rebuilt Git serving to support 20× the CI traffic.
  • The rebuild kept performance from degrading despite the traffic increase.
  • Datadog published the account on 2026-08-19.

Why it matters

Teams whose CI pipelines depend on Git hosting may see that large traffic growth does not have to mean slower builds, though the post describes only Datadog's own setup.

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    20× the CI traffic without getting slower: How we rebuilt Git serving at Datadog
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