These are your favorite GitLab engineering stories
1/7/2021 · Sara Kassabian
What this post added
This post details the migration of GitLab.com from Azure to GCP, the upgrade of a major PostgreSQL cluster, and the migration of GitLab.com to Kubernetes. It also covers debugging a bug in the Docker client library, hunting down an NFS bug, debugging a scaling problem on GitLab.com, and fixing a Gitaly service lag. Additionally, it discusses using Prometheus for anomaly detection and alerting, the decision to build GitLab on Rails, the evolution of the GitLab Web IDE, the development of a VS Code extension, challenges with Elasticsearch integration, the origin of the Insights feature, and reimagining technical interviews. Finally, it touches on troubleshooting a Consul outage and escalating privileges in GCP.