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Why would someone (specifically a large enterprise) outsource source control? Running a local svn or git server is fairly trivial.
by Aloha 11y ago
Why would someone (specifically a large enterprise) outsource source control?
Running a local svn or git server is fairly trivial.
- fweespeech 11y agoThey'll give you a VM with everything in it to run locally. But yeah, I'd rather run GitLab.
- sytse 11y agoAt GitLab we learned that indeed large enterprises don't outsource it, they run something (GitHub Enterprise, GitLab CE/EE, etc.) on-premises.
- Aloha 11y agoHuh. Okay, I guess that makes as much sense as anything really. I can see the advantage in something turnkey.
- sytse 11y agoLarge organizations do it for different reasons. To use their own directory service (LDAP/AD), to more easily integrate it with their other tooling, to be in control of where their data is, to have more control over availability, to be able to add layers of security (VPN, etc.).
- swalsh 11y agoThe nearly 4B market cap public company I work at uses gitlab to host our internal repositories. It works really well for us, we get a lot of the benefits of github, but we have control.
- stepanhruda 11y agoWatering plants and cooking food is also fairly trivial, perhaps our employees should do that too!
- Aloha 11y agoI don't work at a startup. Administrative assistants make coffee for the whole company still, and most of us bring in our own lunch and warm up in the lunch room (those that don't, either go get lunch, or don't eat it) - if you have plants at your desk, you do end up watering them yourself. Yes, we do have contractors who clean the building for us, and a travel agent (as well as administrative assistants) to help us book travel. If you're an technology oriented company, it was hard for me to fathom why running your own source control is too hard (we do, svn) - I hadn't considered the additional value-add from the github provided tooling.
- chetanahuja 11y agoSeconded with the strongest possible level of agreement. Though it seems github has an on-prem product for enterprises, how much value could they provide on top of a cheaper (or free) option of gitlab and such?
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