10/14/2026
Open Source Report · developer-tools

From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers

Filed by Patch Reyes
From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers
Our new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. These are the engineering tradeoffs we made.
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