Konstantin Ryabitsev documented increasing agent traffic burden on public git hosts. A developer explored using Edge Side Includes (ESI) caching to optimize kernel.org's git interface by caching commit diffs across repository forks, achieving modest 24% performance gains in practice.
Konstantin Ryabitsev documented how AI agents and web scrapers are creating unsustainable traffic on public git hosting services. A proposed solution using Edge Side Includes (ESI) caching and Varnish was tested on kernel.org to cache identical git commit data across multiple repository forks, though performance gains proved modest at around 24% for cached fragments.