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I remember Gitlab blogged that they are going to use baremetal instead of Azure with some numbers showing benefit of doing so. AFAIK they quickly reversed decis
by rossmohax 6y ago
I remember Gitlab blogged that they are going to use baremetal instead of Azure with some numbers showing benefit of doing so. AFAIK they quickly reversed decision and didn't even try to implement that plan, moved to GCP instead.
- mikepurvis 6y agoI'm not privy to any particulars specific to GitLab's situation, but it's possible that a little sabre-rattling caused a better deal to appear which changed the calculus on migration.
- phil21 6y agoMy limited visibility take is that their board (or someone higher up, my memory is fuzzy) told them to use the cloud, and that was that.
- mikepurvis 6y agoI could see it. As discussed elsewhere in this thread, investing in your own metal/ops is definitely a long term play, and some combination of "focus on your actual differentiators" and "why bother when one of those cloud providers will acquire us eventually and we'll just have to migrate to them at that point anyway" could be a compelling case.