GitLab's infrastructure

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

GitLab has changed a lot over the past 8 years and so has Abubakar. Starting in the help desk he’s seen a lot and takes us through GitLab’s and his progression.

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Sponsors:

• Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com
• Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database.
• Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong.

Featuring:

• Abubakar Siddiq Ango – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Interview

• Gitlab’s helm chart

Outro

• Happy Eyeballs
• Justin’s resume

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:00:52)

https://coder.com/

3. The opener (00:04:32)

4. Abubakar's role at GitLab (00:08:17)

5. GitLab changes (00:09:34)

6. Avoiding annoying scans (00:11:45)

7. Abubakar's career progression (00:13:14)

8. Sponsor: Neon (00:21:01)

https://neon.tech/enterprise

9. Running on-prem (00:24:37)

10. Experimentation is key (00:28:21)

11. How to develop on GitLab (00:31:36)

12. Listen to customers (00:33:20)

13. Open company handbook? (00:35:27)

14. Thanks for joining us! (00:42:44)

15. Sponsor: Cronitor (00:43:23)

https://cronitor.io

16. The closer (00:48:00)

17. Cool curl and wget commands (00:49:12)

18. Outro (00:59:45)