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daxelrod | 3 years ago

If I remember correctly, GitLab used to offer the same kind of service, but discontinued it because managing it was not a core competency that they wanted to focus on. I'm curious what's different now.

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lbotos|3 years ago

Scale.

When I joined 6 years ago, there were 3 products with a team of about 120 people total.

A tough decision was made to focus on 2 products to increase velocity.

Probably about 2 years ago there were some asks if we offered "single-tenant cloud solutions".

At around that time, we had really rock solid reference architectures that were well tested and confirmed to be scalable.

We are now 2130 team members. There is demand, there is capacity, and there is clarity of how to run it. (6 Years ago "how big should the instance be for x users" was a question that was not answered yet.)

Feel free to ask other questions, If I can answer them I will :)

daxelrod|3 years ago

Thank you for that answer! Wow, I can't believe how small the team was 6 years ago. Is that 120 engineers or 120 employees total?

Looking forward to seeing GitLab doing this well. It hits a sweet spot for a lot of organizations.