It'd be interesting to see more application-level solutions to scale rather than just adding hardware. Like extending git so objects can be fetched via a remo

It'd be interesting to see more application-level solutions to scale rather than just adding hardware. Like extending git so objects can be fetched via a remote object-store rather than dealing with a locally mounted POSIX file system. This would allow you to use native cloud object stores and might simplify your latency requirements to the point where you could consider staying in the cloud. This definitely increases software complexity but going the other way increases other complexities (ops, capex, capacity).