Analysis · Friday 23 October 2026 · story 6
GitHub outlines quorum changes for the last Azure repository moves
The GitHub Blog reports that GitHub moved copies of 99.99999% of repositories to Azure, which now serves about half of Git traffic. GitHub says per-reference quorums and a virtual replica linked to Azure Blob Storage are meant to bring over the busiest repositories and let reads scale separately.
Why it matters. This matters if your agents depend on GitHub, because Git read capacity can grow separately while busy repositories face less write blocking.
Read the original at github.blog