> I don't understand why they wont just throw more servers at the problem There's only so much you can solve by throwing more hardware/money at the problem. We

> I don't understand why they wont just throw more servers at the problem There's only so much you can solve by throwing more hardware/money at the problem. We have reached a point where we are wasting too much of this, so adding more won't help much. > (or put some devs on fixing their backend) We have plenty of people working on the problem, and for quite a while now. We're also hiring more developers to help us out with this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests?scope=all&state=merged&utf8=%E2%9C%93&label_name%5B%5D=Performance https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests?scope... https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/3904 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/... https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25421/ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25421/ There's also this old (and closed) issue which contains a lot of information: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42