Mıshra, DeeptiYu,L.Mishra,A.Mıshra, AlokMishra,D.Computer EngineeringSoftware Engineering2024-07-052024-07-0520148978-366245549-40302-974310.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_462-s2.0-84910127983https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_46https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/3747French CNRS National Research Group GDR MACS; IFAC TC 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.2, 5.4 and 9.5; IFAC Technical Committee 5.3 Enterprise Integration and Networking; IFIP Work Group 8.1 Design and Evaluation of Information Systems; Italian Pole INTEROP-Vlab.it.; SIG INTEROP Grande-R´egion on “Enterprise Systems InteroperabilityGitHub is a distributed code repository and project hosting web site. It is becoming one of the most popular web-based services to host both opensource projects and closed-source projects. In this paper, we review different kinds of version control systems and study the dynamics of GitHub, i.e., the ability and scalability of GitHub to process different requests and provide different services to different GitHub projects and GitHub users. Our study shows that GitHub could handle hundreds of thousands of requests a day for all the projects and thousands of requests for one project. This capability of GitHub makes it suitable for supporting distributed software development. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessDistributed software developmentDistributed version control systemEmpirical studyGitGitHubWeb-based code storageConference Object8842457466