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Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #209

Related question. Is it possible to use Gitlab CI with a runner running on your own hardware to get unlimited CI time? I'd like to take a machine at my home and use it to run automated tests/etc, especially because some of the integration tests can be quite long (ie, chewing up CI minutes) . I thought this was possible, but after searching I was often confused. I imagine I'm using poor terms during my search. Thought…

Yep, we do this on GitLab.com - it’s one of the most well thought through systems I’ve worked with tbh. We use autoscaling EC2 spot instances for almost everything, incredibly cost efficient and unlimited.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

lucideer wrote: post #92
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't tried Gitlab sites yet - what makes it better than Github's?

Note: I haven't yet looked into Github Actions in depth, so if there's GH Pages integration there, some of the below may no longer be true. Github's is tightly coupled to Jekyll, and—more specifically—to this single Gem https://github.com/github/pages-gem Also, this might have changed, but last time I interacted with it, it lacked any real control over your source repo structure: there's some arcane rules about eithe…

Thanks for the response! Reading through their docs it looks really nicely integrated with all the CI stuff there, a good example of them taking advantage of all the flexibility and power that has. Nice!

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by emilycook »

lswainemoore wrote: post #275

Gitlab is great! Most major downside from my perspective is that the diffing functionality is much worse than Github's. Super slow + resource intensive.

Hi! GitLab employee, we have an epic open here to improve diff performance: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1816

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by emilycook »

mlindner wrote: post #277

I honestly hate gitlab compared to github. So many broken features and half implemented things. It's got all the same problems Jira has (as compared to GitHub which is amazing to use).

Hi, GitLab employee here. Sorry to hear that! This funding should enable us to throw more resources at maturing some of our features (e.g. we tripled our employee count this year). We spun up this product maturity page to make this a little more transparent: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/maturity/

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Post by ta478447guu »

They seem to have achieved golden child status on HN, and from my experiences its hard to see why. Glad there's a non-Microsoft option, but I wish it were another whole setup.

Support is non-existent, clunky CI infrastructure, barebones all over. They seem to just be good at reacting in public threads.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by Nimitz14 »

banachtarski wrote: post #169
ryanmcbride wrote: post #157

At my last job Gitlab was in the stack and I had never used it before so I was expecting it to be a real pain. It was actually a perfectly pleasant experience. I don't think it'll make me leave Github but I put them at the same level now. Merge Requests never felt right saying over Pull Requests, even though it's more descriptive of what's actually happening.

I'm being pedantic here, but the reason I prefer pull is because it feels more general than a "merge," which to me precludes a fetch/rebase. I guess you could consider it a merge -ff-only, but in a mergeless-master workflow, "merge request" felt awkward.

But it's wrong. It's actually a "push" instead of "pull", the direction is away from what you're doing not towards you!

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by iagooar »

It's a shame they sold out so quickly to US investors (I think they are even officially incorporated in the US now?).

They could have become Europe's largest software company, instead they chose to follow the money.

To be fair, I guess significant European investment is still hard to come by these days.

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