Interesting. I'm always skeptical of blog posts companies make about themselves, but I can definitely see how block-level deduplication could be a huge help.

I wonder how it scales with the numbers of blocks (e.g. with 10 TB of data)? I would guess that it would really help with the amount of data stored but then slow way down as more data gets added due to the extra overhead of tracking and deduping.

Also, does it work across repositories?

What specifically is meant by "Modern Development Experience"? I see github eliminating a lot of useful development pain points with its tools for repository collaboration and integration, which is what I associate with the current trend with repositories, but this post is focusing just on having data with the code which is an interesting assumption...