DevTools · Azure
GitHub
Owned by Microsoft and migrating into Azure; the monolith is Ruby on Rails over horizontally sharded MySQL (Vitess) with a custom Git backend (Spokes/DGit). Copilot is built on OpenAI.
Foundation proximity: Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)
Foundational models & how they consume them
PrimaryGPT-4-class (Copilot)· Azure OpenAI · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)
Cloud & datastore
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FAQ
Does GitHub use a foundational AI model?
GitHub uses GPT-4-class (Copilot) (Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)).
What cloud does GitHub run on?
GitHub runs on Azure.
What database does GitHub use?
GitHub uses MySQL (Vitess), Redis, Elasticsearch.
How close does GitHub run to the foundational model?
GitHub is Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) — further out, trading control for convenience.
Sources
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