Agentic AI
Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches distributed Git network to handle AI agent traffic
Former GitHub CEO's new startup is rolling out a preview of a decentralized Git infrastructure designed to eliminate bottlenecks that centralized hosting creates for AI-driven development workflows.
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Thomas Dohmke, who left the GitHub CEO position last year to return to founding, is unveiling a distributed Git network designed to address a critical pain point in modern development: the strain that billions of AI agent operations place on centralized code repositories.
Entire, Dohmke's post-GitHub venture, is previewing its infrastructure this week through a waitlist-gated launch. The platform allows developers to establish a mirror of their existing GitHub repositories on Entire's globally distributed servers, enabling agents and teams to push, pull, and clone code without hitting rate limits or latency walls.
Why centralized Git hosting is becoming a bottleneck#
The traditional model of hosting repositories on a single centralized server worked well for years—until AI agents entered the picture. When thousands or millions of agent processes hit the same server simultaneously, the infrastructure buckles: rate limits kick in, response times spike, and outages become more frequent. GitHub's recent availability challenges underscore this emerging constraint.
Entire's approach reconceptualizes Git as a database rather than merely a version control system. Instead of layering custom infrastructure on top of the standard Git server (as GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket do), the company rewrote Git's backend entirely from scratch. Early benchmarks suggest meaningful gains: up to 25 times faster push performance to Entire than pushing through GitHub, plus sustained throughput of 570,000 clones per hour and 586 pushes per second.
How the mirror architecture works#
For now, Entire maintains the master copy of code on GitHub while operating its own mirrors as working layers. Developers and agents interact with the Entire infrastructure for day-to-day operations, while GitHub remains the authoritative source. The company initially launches with regional nodes across the United States, the European Union, and Australia, with plans to expand globally.
Dohmke framed the relationship as complementary rather than competitive. "If one of them is down," he noted, "then I have my mirror on the other side" — treating dual hosting as a resilience strategy. However, he also confirmed that Entire plans to launch fully native repositories in coming months that won't depend on GitHub at all, and that both the Git backend and benchmark suite will be open-sourced.
