If you’ve ever waited 12 seconds for a git clone of a 5GB monorepo behind a corporate firewall, you know the cost of poor Git server performance: $47k annual productivity loss for a 50-person engineering team, per our 2024 internal benchmark. For 15 years, I’ve tuned Git infrastructure for teams from 4-person startups to 10k+ engineer orgs, and the debate between lightweight Gitea and feature-heav
Adding a third person to an encrypted conversation seems like it should be simple. It isn't. The cryptographic properties that make 1:1 messaging secure — forward secrecy, post-compromise security, deniability — become significantly harder to preserve as group size grows. When Signal introduced group chats, they faced a problem that doesn't exist in 1:1 messaging: how do you efficiently encrypt a