How ten steps over ten years led to the DevOps Platform

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This post reflects on ten key decisions made over ten years that shaped GitLab into a comprehensive DevOps platform. It highlights the foundational principles of working in parallel, integrating CI with Git, embracing cloud-native technologies, centralizing workflows around merge requests, prioritizing developer-first security, offering a broad spectrum of security scans, operating as an all-remote company with asynchronous communication, ensuring visibility across the development lifecycle, and measuring results. These decisions have influenced the company's culture, product development, and overall strategy, leading to the current state of the DevOps platform.