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Thank you. It's not quite over though. Monday traffic will be far higher than the weekend. People will need to login, which will put unusual stress on those endpoints. Also, there …

GitLab VPE here. This instinct proved correct. We'll look into editing the video this week after the team gets a breather.

GitLab VPE here. We're working on Dockerized version that will run in a Kubernetes cluster, which should make this easier, assuming you've already made that investment in your infr…

GitLab VPE here. We are starting to re-write performance intensive part of our application in Golang. E.g. our Gitaly project: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly

GitLab VPE here. Historically the dominant source of outage minutes is indeed features that didn't scale (70%). However, We've made great strides in the past 6 months on QA and rel…

GitLab VPE here. We apologize for the site performance degradation today. We do have a dedicated DB team of three people. We also have an open vacancy for the team's manager and an…

Gitlabber here. We have a plan to address this and are kicking off our move to GCP shortly. Our top-level engineering department goal is to make gitlab.com ready for mission critic…

Another GitLabber here. We just kicked off a major effort to address the availability issue Sid mentions above. The highlights are that we're moving to GCP which should provide bet…

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Excuse the self promotion, but if you're interested also check out a UI Docker/K8s deployment tool my team open-sourced earlier in the week. It's opinionated, but it might meet som…

Can you say more? If I understand what you mean by prototype and refactor it seems like a reasonable way to iterate. What I was getting at in the article was completely transferrin…

This is awesome. Wouldn't it be cool is this were wired up to an orchestration tool like Terraform to visualize TF states? Another level would be container infrastructure. Our new …