How we increased our release velocity with GitLab

Evolphin transitioned from Subversion to GitLab for source code management and version control. This move addressed challenges with their previous tedious, slow, and complicated branching and merging workflow, which resulted in a minimum of five weeks per product update. By adopting GitLab's free community version, they gained features for remote collaboration, feature branching, merge requests, and code review. This resulted in a more seamless, collaborative, and efficient workflow for their R&D teams, enabling them to execute feature releases two to three weeks faster and increasing overall release velocity by 30% to 40%. They now use GitLab as a single source of truth for source code, binary dependencies, and DevOps projects, integrating with Jenkins for CI/CD and YouTrack for issue tracking. Internal documentation and collaboration also leverage GitLab Wikis.