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Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

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Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

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Post by sithlord »

gilfoyle wrote: post #51

Gitlab is a great service and a great alternative to github and bitbucket. But it has been quite flaky over many years and it's quite surprising they haven't prioritised system stability over everything else. https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus Gitlab has been a fully remote proponent going back a few years and these persistent reliability issues add some doubt to that model - even if there might be altogether other iss…

My guess is it has to do with their prioritization of only hiring people with "significant ruby/rails" experience. Kills a lot of the talent pool, which doesn't make sense as easy is it is is to pick up a new high level language and framework.

Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

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Post by hughw »

qeternity wrote: post #37

We switched from self-hosted to gitlab.com a couple months back and the migration has been extremely disappointing. Pushing commits often hangs completely, and we've had a number of smaller downtimes/degradations in recent weeks that have been super disruptive. Having been Gitlab users since our inception, we're now seriously considering Github (I know - grass is always greener).

We don't use Gitlab CI, but only their hosted git. Just thought I'd throw in our sterling experience over the past three years. We've really not noticed whatever downtime they've had.

Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

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Post by pbalau »

ing33k wrote: post #60

/r took me a lot of effort to convince my CTO to move from Bitbucket to Gitlab. Since we have started using it ( 3 + months ), we have experienced more than 4 instances of downtime. If some one from Gitlab is reading this message, please consider a code freeze and spend some time on stabilizing the system. time to add a new backup remote to all our repos.

We are using bitbucket atm and I can't fathom a reason to move, care to elaborate?

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Post by notretarded »

ing33k wrote: post #60

/r took me a lot of effort to convince my CTO to move from Bitbucket to Gitlab. Since we have started using it ( 3 + months ), we have experienced more than 4 instances of downtime. If some one from Gitlab is reading this message, please consider a code freeze and spend some time on stabilizing the system. time to add a new backup remote to all our repos.

Pweese fix my poor decision making OwO

Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

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Post by ModernMech »

ing33k wrote: post #60

/r took me a lot of effort to convince my CTO to move from Bitbucket to Gitlab. Since we have started using it ( 3 + months ), we have experienced more than 4 instances of downtime. If some one from Gitlab is reading this message, please consider a code freeze and spend some time on stabilizing the system. time to add a new backup remote to all our repos.

Agreed. I use gitlab for administering all of my courses. I started when they had more features compared to github (free private repos, built in test runners), but over time github has regained some but not all of that ground. I will still be using gitlab in the future, but am going to convince our systems admin to set up a local instance.

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Post by hhh »

INTPenis wrote: post #33

I love Gitlab because I love open source and competition but Gitlab either on-prem or gitlab.com has been having growing pains ever since I started using it around 2015. And it seems to be related to scaling because it's always iffy problems like higher error rates or jobs not executing. Either way, I love our on-prem Gitlab. It's free and it hosts over 200 projects, Gitops and the whole shebang. I'm just now beginni…

I have nothing but praise for our enterprise Gitlab implementation. It hosts 2000+ projects and for many teams is mission critical. Our team that maintains it is wonderful and I've only seen it down without planning once for about an hour. Using Gitlab at work actually swayed me to move to it for my personal projects as well.

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Post by Xelbair »

pbalau wrote: post #66
ing33k wrote: post #60

/r took me a lot of effort to convince my CTO to move from Bitbucket to Gitlab. Since we have started using it ( 3 + months ), we have experienced more than 4 instances of downtime. If some one from Gitlab is reading this message, please consider a code freeze and spend some time on stabilizing the system. time to add a new backup remote to all our repos.

We are using bitbucket atm and I can't fathom a reason to move, care to elaborate?

Atlassian is Australian company.

Australia has very weird and wide reaching laws regarding software backdoors.

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