one can definitely see what people are promoted for at Google :) > the Go Module Mirror runs some crawlers that periodically clone Git repositories with Go mod

one can definitely see what people are promoted for at Google :) > the Go Module Mirror runs some crawlers that periodically clone Git repositories with Go modules in them to check for updates. >The service is distributed across many nodes which all crawl modules independently of one another, resulting in very redundant git traffic. basically slapping together a very inefficient alpha, and obviously people aren't promoted for fixing such glaring inefficiencies to make it even into a half reasonable beta. And that is just hilarious, like people in Google never heard of CDN, HEAD, git fetch, etc. - of course they know it, and it is really just an arrogance of an 800lb gorilla toward "small-fish" - "https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-856928441 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-85692... - with a passive-aggressive blackmail of a cherry on top : >In the meantime, if you would prefer, we can turn off all refresh traffic for your domain while we continue to improve this on our end. That would mean that the only traffic you would receive from us would be the result of a request directly from a user. This may impact the freshness of your domain's data which users receive from our servers