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Well, this: https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast

And the fact that they have somewhere north of 5 terabytes of active data, and their job queue is handling many hundreds of thousands of jobs a day, and it pretty much all happens extremely fast with nary a hiccup. I know there are outages, but I'm pushing up changes to them something like 10 hours a day every day, and I've never noticed them.



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