I recently launched the first GitHub node.js project: nodeload. Nodeload replaces the ruby git archive download server. Basically, any time you download a tarball or zip file of any repository branch or tag, you’re going through nodeload. This is a challenging issue because we can’t just store downloads anywhere. Either we pre-build archives for every single branch and tag after every repo commit,
![Meet Nodeload, the new Download server](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/c3670fe82ffe1f7df7137d57e837158b7e917db0/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.blog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F07%2F5bbd5272-b1fd-11e4-9c91-136fb38c48ad.png)