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Comment by anguss | Hacker News Reader

A couple weeks ago I was scanning Github for repos with frequent commits to identify so-called "software factories" and was surprised to see clickhouse. I wouldn't touch it with a 10ft pole considering how quickly they're merging code into main. I'm talking 50+ commits per day and thousands of AI generated issues and triages. Check it out for yourself https://github.com/clickhouse/clickhouse

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They have a robust CI/ test infra in place that has evolved over the years. Even a simple non functional doc changes are carefully reviewed and validated.

The CTO himself reported 600 commits and 300 PRs each day. And they can do so because they have a massive CI [1]:

> Every day CI runs about 20..80 million tests in 600 commits and 300 pull requests

> Last year, ClickHouse spent 360 years of machine time for CI

I am no user of CH so I can't talk about their product. But we are talking about a company with 686 employees as per their LinkedIn, where ClickHouse is clearly the core of their business. Considering all of this, is 50+ commits a day that much?

[1] https://presentations.clickhouse.com/2026-openhouse-sf/great...

Just wait till you find out how many commits per day to a product are occurring to most of the SaaS you rely on.

Clickhouse has a managed SaaS and it's their primary product. They have a lot of engineers. They're going to do a lot of commits.

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