Scaling Git for the Age of Agentic Workflows

Another Month, Another GerritMeets

GerritMeets is back at Google Munich's office! After last year's success the kind folks of the Google Developer Group Cloud Munich will be hosting another of our Gerrit events.

This time we'll be looking at what performance in the age of AI looks like for SCM systems and how moving to ARM chips architecture can help you not only achieve your performance goals, but also at a fraction of the cost.

Join us for what promises to be another exciting GerritMeets!

Agenda Highlights:
The evening will feature two talks, one from our Mike Annau, Customer Engineer @ Google, and another one from our very own Ponch! Looking forward to seeing you all there, it'll be a good one.

Lightning Talk 1: The Human Circuit Breaker: Code Review in the Age of Agents

AI agents like Antigravity are changing the game—they don't take coffee breaks, they don't sleep, and they can churn out code at blistering speeds. But what happens to our meticulously crafted Gerrit review processes when the primary authors are bots? In this lightning talk, we will explore the shift in developer experience from "writing code" to "directing agents, and when we really need to step in.

Lightning Talk 2: Automated Load Testing in Large-Scale SCM

AI-assisted development tools (like Antigravity) have replaced human-paced workflows with relentless, high-velocity automated Git traffic, causing enterprise infrastructure bills to skyrocket. SCM systems must now scale faster and more resiliently than ever to avoid catastrophic, multi-million dollar developer downtime, and as Git traffic scales, so do the infrastructure bills.

In this talk, Ponch shares how we tackled this challenge by building
specialized testing harnesses designed for extreme Git load testing. We will
demonstrate how we simulate massive, concurrent, AI-like workloads to stress-test any Git-based SCM instance, allowing teams to load test upgrades and protect production environments.

Furthermore, we will also share how ARM64 processors are uniquely suited for the highly concurrent, I/O-heavy nature of Git operations. By pitting x86 against ARM64 under these extreme simulated workloads, we prove how enterprises can simultaneously achieve higher resilience, slash cloud spend, and reduce their carbon footprint.

Speaker:
Ponch: Gerrit Maintainer and Contributor

Where:
Isar Valley, Google Munich - Safety Engineering Center
Erika-Mann-Straße 33, 80636 München, Germany

When
Doors will open at 18:00 local time, with the event starting shortly after.