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GitLab is working on a tool just for data teams
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Re: GitLab is working on a tool just for data teams
#22Is there any example of an open source software company that has taken on so many products at once, so early in its life, and succeeded?
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#23Taylor from GitLab here! Happy to answer any questions about what we're doing.
Kudos to you for trying something new!
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#24This looks like an amalgamation of 8+ open source projects or industries with products put forth by companies that have dozens of employees and worked on their products for years. It also doesn't even categorize the products they compete with correctly[0]. Why not contribute some of your resources to one of the many active open source libraries already trying to solve some of these problems, and focus your engineerin…
Our goal is to meet our data team's need by answering our company's data questions.
A lot of the solutions out there are fantastic but aren't up to the tasks we are looking for. Why shouldn't the whole life cycle be in one tool, be open source, and be version controllable? That's what we are looking for in a tool.
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"but then try to tackle something like integrations or BI tools. The complexity of both of those is massive and there are great open source efforts already out there." I would love to hear your suggestion for a great open source BI tool. We tried Superset and Metabase but both didn't came close to what we could do with Looker. That is why we're giving Meltano Analyze a shot. BTW Do you want to do a livestreamed video…
Sure - just shot you an email at website@yourhandle.com
What a great interview. @slap_shot, you had great questions and you are so well spoken. Really appreciate the feedback. We're all taking notes here. Hope you will keep an eye on our issue tracker for Meltano and give us your feedback as things come up.
Re: GitLab is working on a tool just for data teams
#26This looks like an amalgamation of 8+ open source projects or industries with products put forth by companies that have dozens of employees and worked on their products for years. It also doesn't even categorize the products they compete with correctly[0]. Why not contribute some of your resources to one of the many active open source libraries already trying to solve some of these problems, and focus your engineerin…
Our goal is to meet our data team's need by answering our company's data questions. A lot of the solutions out there are fantastic but aren't up to the tasks we are looking for. Why shouldn't the whole life cycle be in one tool, be open source, and be version controllable? That's what we are looking for in a tool.
There's no inherent reason that the whole life cycle can't be handled in a single tool. However, there have been tens of thousands of person-years spent on these tools, so people here are pointing out that it is a tall ask for any company to create one tool that integrates everything. This goes doubly so if it is only going to be a side project to GitLab itself.
Re: GitLab is working on a tool just for data teams
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our goal is to meet our data team's need by answering our company's data questions. A lot of the solutions out there are fantastic but aren't up to the tasks we are looking for. Why shouldn't the whole life cycle be in one tool, be open source, and be version controllable? That's what we are looking for in a tool.
There's no inherent reason that the whole life cycle can't be handled in a single tool. However, there have been tens of thousands of person-years spent on these tools, so people here are pointing out that it is a tall ask for any company to create one tool that integrates everything. This goes doubly so if it is only going to be a side project to GitLab itself.
Thanks. It's currently 4 devs full time jobs. I agree, a tall order. It's a lot of work. We won't reproduce every feature of every product tomorrow.
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I'm sorry to heard your experience with GitLab hasn't been smooth. We have more people then ever working on the core of GitLab. And the number of reported issues per customer are going down. But every problem is one too many. Please email me at sytse@gitlab.com if you're open to a call about your situation.
I appreciate how dedicated GitLab is to continuously improving the product. Thinking about moving my projects from Bitbucket to GitLab for that reason.
Yay! Thanks for that.
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#29Is there any example of an open source software company that has taken on so many products at once, so early in its life, and succeeded?
We did https://about.gitlab.com/2017/10/11/from-dev-to-devops/ when we where at 50% of our current number of engineers. So far so good.
Re: GitLab is working on a tool just for data teams
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no inherent reason that the whole life cycle can't be handled in a single tool. However, there have been tens of thousands of person-years spent on these tools, so people here are pointing out that it is a tall ask for any company to create one tool that integrates everything. This goes doubly so if it is only going to be a side project to GitLab itself.
Thanks. It's currently 4 devs full time jobs. I agree, a tall order. It's a lot of work. We won't reproduce every feature of every product tomorrow.
We'll only get there if Meltano get a lot community contributions. We think there is space for an open source end-to-end product that works out of the box. The contributions will tell if we're right.