Alphabet Backs GitLab's Quest to Surpass Microsoft's GitHub
Gitlab _could_ be a brilliant SaaS product. It has many more features than github, Runner integration allows simple and easy building, instead of having to bust out to circleCI.<p>As a self hosted product, it is difficult to be beaten.<p>but as a Saas product, its just horribly unreliable.<p>In the last two months it has improved, but there are still outages every two weeks or so. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gitlabstatus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gitlabstatus</a>) I&#x27;m hoping that with this extra cash, they&#x27;ll be hiring in some infrastructure people (people who will look at this in horror: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;11&#x2F;proposed-server-purchase-for-gitlab-com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;11&#x2F;proposed-server-purchase...</a> ) who actually know how to make a stable platform using _proven &quot;boring&quot;_ stuff, not sexy slow and supposedly HA stuff like Ceph and forcing it to serve NFS.