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That’s an interesting question - it’s one thing to run an instance of forgejo for a limited user base and another to run at mass public scale.

How does someplace like a GitHub/Gitlab go it? Are user accounts or repos sharded across different servers? Is there a different underlying scaling system? If one wanted to run Forgejo “at scale” what would it really require, or does this need to be factored into the design from day one?

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This recent post that made it to the front page talks a lot about approaches GitHub has taken over its history:

https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale

I ended up finding my own answer (after reading the above).

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/26/git-in-postgres.html

Following another recent theme, the answer for Forgejo seems to be - just use Postgres.

That approach was mentioned in the Cursor article. If a KV cache like Redis is too slow for that to work with large repositories, I don't see how Postgres could possibly work.

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