Re: [WIP RFC 0/5] Design for offloading part of packfile response to CDN

2018-12-03 Thread Stefan Beller
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:37 PM Jonathan Tan wrote: > > There is a potential issue: a server which produces both the URIs and > the packfile at roughly the same time (like the implementation in this > patch set) will not have sideband access until it has concluded sending > the URIs. Among other

[WIP RFC 0/5] Design for offloading part of packfile response to CDN

2018-12-03 Thread Jonathan Tan
Some of us have been working on a design to improve the scalability of Git servers by allowing them to offload part of the packfile response to CDNs in this way: returning HTTP(S) URIs in fetch responses in addition to packfiles. This can reduce the load on individual Git servers and improves