---
title: "GitHub's shift from Monolith to Microservices"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/github-s-shift-from-monolith-to-microservices-ll3cnr23e
source_url: https://www.quastor.org/p/githubs-shift-from-monolith-to-microservices
type: article
source: "Quastor Daily"
published: 2021-10-21T20:40:17.751Z
updated: 2026-03-15T04:00:01.480Z
tags: ["architecture", "general-programming", "github", "monolith"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 34
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# GitHub's shift from Monolith to Microservices

**[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 7 min read · 34 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Sha Ma, VP of Software Engineering at GitHub, gave a talk at Qcon 2020 about GitHub’s transition from a Monolith architecture to Microservices-oriented architecture. She discussed the pros and cons of each type of service. She also discussed the process GitHub is following to make the change. Plus, a couple awesome tech snippets on DKIM, DMARC, and SPF.

## Full article

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**@jerrys** · 0 upvotes

> Great advice regarding the distributed monolith

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Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#monolith](https://daily.dev/tags/monolith)

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