@vicky_grok: THIS IS INSANE Shopify’s CEO just released a Git server with NO DATABASE. The S3 bucket is literally the repository. It…

THIS IS INSANE

Shopify’s CEO just released a Git server with NO DATABASE.

The S3 bucket is literally the repository.

It’s called walgit — a Rust-based Git server that stores repositories as a write-ahead log in S3 or GCS.

And it already crossed 1,300+ GitHub stars.

Here’s the wild part:

1. Your Git data lives directly in object storage
2. The manifest acts as the commit point
3. Servers become disposable caches
4. Fresh clones can pull static bundles from S3 or a CDN
5. Large repositories can be served without keeping everything on local disk

No database. No leader. No important local state.

Kill every server and you lose cache warmth — not your data.

It also supports:

→ Smart HTTP v0/v2 → Git LFS → Token + OIDC authentication → Per-repository push policies → Webhooks → React web UI → JSON API + SDK

And yes, it was built by Tobi Lütke, Shopify’s CEO.

Vikas gupta (@vicky_grok): stop trying to fine-tune an llm on your company data. it’s expensive and it doesn’t prevent hallucinations. the industry standard is RAG (retrieval-augmented generation). here is the complete architectural blueprint for building it.