--- title: GitHub saw 7.4B commits in September, adding 4M CPU... description: GitHub now sees 7.4 billion commits per month, up from 2.9 billion in August and 1.4 billion in April. That compares with 65 million monthly commits back in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/github-saw-7-4b-commits-in-september-adding-4m-cpu-cores-and-160-pb-of-storage-to-keep-up-4vivxbfd6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GitHub saw 7.4B commits in September, adding 4M CPU cores and 160 PB of storage to keep up | daily.dev og:description: GitHub now sees 7.4 billion commits per month, up from 2.9 billion in August and 1.4 billion in April. That compares with 65 million monthly commits back in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/github-saw-7-4b-commits-in-september-adding-4m-cpu-cores-and-160-pb-of-storage-to-keep-up-4vivxbfd6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4viVxBFD6.png og:image:alt: GitHub saw 7.4B commits in September, adding 4M CPU cores and 160 PB of storage to keep up og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GitHub saw 7.4B commits in September, adding 4M CPU cores and 160 PB of storage to keep up **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GitHub now sees 7.4 billion commits per month, up from 2.9 billion in August and 1.4 billion in April. That compares with 65 million monthly commits back in 2024. Growth is driven mostly by agentic demand. To keep up, GitHub is adding 4 million more CPU cores, 160 petabytes of high-speed storage, more GitHub Actions compute, and 50 Tb/s of network capacity, on top of 3 million cores added in August mostly on Azure. GitHub is also rearchitecting its platform to separate compute and storage, a change its internal benchmarks show can deliver up to 35x higher write throughput. Core AI EVP Jay Parikh writes in the announcement. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How many commits per month is GitHub currently handling? GitHub reported 7.4 billion commits per month as of its GitHub Universe announcement, up from 2.9 billion in August and 1.4 billion in April. For comparison, developers pushed only 65 million monthly commits to the platform in 2024. The company attributes the surge mainly to agentic demand from AI coding agents. _Engineers tracking AI's impact on dev workflows can follow infrastructure shifts like this on daily.dev._ ### How much infrastructure is GitHub adding to handle increased commit volume? GitHub is adding 4 million more CPU cores, 160 petabytes of high-speed storage, additional GitHub Actions compute power, and 50 Tb/s of network capacity. This follows an earlier addition of 3 million CPU cores, mostly on Azure, announced in August. The scaling is driven by rapid growth in agentic, AI-driven development activity. _Teams planning for AI-driven scaling needs can track capacity trends like these on daily.dev._ ### What performance improvement does GitHub's new compute-storage separation architecture provide? GitHub's internal benchmarks show the new architecture, which separates compute and storage, can deliver up to 35 times higher write throughput. Microsoft Core AI EVP Jay Parikh says capacity additions alone are not enough and that the underlying architecture had to change to handle the new volume and shape of agent-driven software development. _Architects evaluating compute-storage separation can compare real benchmarks like this via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How GitHub plans to win developers back](https://daily.dev/posts/how-github-plans-to-win-developers-back-9hvijs2gi) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development](https://daily.dev/posts/building-git-infrastructure-for-agent-scale-development-xo12uijhx) · GitHub Blog · 7 upvotes · 0 comments - [Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents](https://daily.dev/posts/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents-ilowokytu) · GitHub Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#azure](https://daily.dev/tags/azure) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/github-saw-7-4b-commits-in-september-adding-4m-cpu-cores-and-160-pb-of-storage-to-keep-up-4vivxbfd6) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"GitHub saw 7.4B commits in September, adding 4M CPU cores and 160 PB of storage to keep up","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/github-saw-7-4b-commits-in-september-adding-4m-cpu-cores-and-160-pb-of-storage-to-keep-up-4vivxbfd6","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/github-saw-7-4b-commits-in-september-adding-4m-cpu-cores-and-160-pb-of-storage-to-keep-up-4vivxbfd6"},"datePublished":"2026-10-28T16:17:12.478Z","dateModified":"2026-10-28T16:36:39.384Z","description":"GitHub now sees 7.4 billion commits per month, up from 2.9 billion in August and 1.4 billion in April. 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