Scaling Git for the agentic software factory
GitLab describes next-gen SCM, a redesigned Git backend built to serve thousands of concurrent agents while keeping the Git protocol, and says it is in private beta. The post cites Anthropic's monorepo growth from about 2,500 daily merges in May to more than 30,000 in September, and Anthropic's own Scion system built for that monorepo. GitLab says early internal tests showed up to 50x faster workloads, up to 2x fewer tokens and up to 1,000x less network traffic, described as peak results under specific conditions.
What changes for platform teams
Platform teams evaluating GitLab for agent-heavy workloads can request private beta access to test next-gen SCM against their own repositories. The performance figures are vendor test results and have not been validated under sustained concurrent load, so they should not be used for capacity planning yet.
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