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github is terribly slow... or maybe it's just me?

• cntainer 7y ago
  It's usually fast for me with the occasional slow down. From experience (did some code contributions to gitlab) when you work a lot with the filesystem, as is the case for platforms hosting git repos, you will have performance issues related to that, regardless of the programming language. we host gitlab at my company for internal use, just switching from SSDs to HDDs made a big difference in terms of response time for big actions like opening a merge request, etc I'm sure there are apps in the wild that get to that level of optimization where you need to decide on a different language. But what I've usually seen is you just slice that part out into a service and only rewrite that part. I think stripe and others are basically doing this if they do hit the limits of ruby in very performance intensive workloads.