All else aside, I realized that if you add hosting and assume dogfooding, GitLab's product is a platform made for building, configuring and running the platform

All else aside, I realized that if you add hosting and assume dogfooding, GitLab's product is a platform made for building, configuring and running the platform you're building, maintaining and configuring... It feels Hofstadterian from several angles. > Idera acquired Travis CI This is disingenuous. That acquisition is not a validating example. That aside, I don't feel a need to read in as much passive-aggressiveness as everyone commenting does. It's a bit of rivalry, sure. Resource-usage aside, I was happy self-hosting GitLab for years.