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I'm not sure how a blog post like this made it past any kind of review/quality control/PR in a 1000+ employee company. Criticising other services is quite poor

I'm not sure how a blog post like this made it past any kind of review/quality control/PR in a 1000+ employee company. Criticising other services is quite poor form already. But then the criticism is a shallow dismissal by someone knowing nothing about Heroku, and with a minimal, odd example on top. And the proposed alternative is running Terraform in a CI pipeline to set up AWS. Yeah, that's not why people use Heroku... I'm usually positive towards Gitlab, but if I were them I would make this post disappear as quickly as possible, it's that embarrassing.

ZephyrBlu 6y ago
> I'm not sure how a blog post like this made it past any kind of review/quality control/PR in a 1000+ employee company That's what the Unfiltered tag is for. To resolve the company of any responsibility for this kind of thing.
- danjac 6y ago
  Then why not just publish the article on Medium or whatever? Nobody will notice or care about the "Unfiltered" label, they will just associate the authors' opinions with Gitlab regardless.
  - ZephyrBlu 6y ago
    No idea. I agree it's stupid. I guess they're trying to be authentic, though this just seems low effort.
- ralph84 6y ago
  The place for employees to post their personal opinion that doesn’t represent the company is their personal blog, not “about.gitlab.com/blog”. After you’ve raised almost half a billion dollars in funding, you can afford a PR person to review posts that appear on the company blog.
  - ZephyrBlu 6y ago
    A PR person did review the post. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26557589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26557589
    - boleary-gl 6y ago
      Where does that show anyone from the PR department approving it? I don't see anyone I recognize from the PR department there... This is how "unfiltered" blogs work: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/unfiltered/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/unfiltered/
      - ZephyrBlu 6y ago
        Ah sorry I misread "PR" as in Pull Request for "PR" as in Public Relations. I believe there were at least marketing people involved in approving the post though.

ZephyrBlu 6y ago

> I'm not sure how a blog post like this made it past any kind of review/quality control/PR in a 1000+ employee company That's what the Unfiltered tag is for. To resolve the company of any responsibility for this kind of thing.

danjac 6y ago
Then why not just publish the article on Medium or whatever? Nobody will notice or care about the "Unfiltered" label, they will just associate the authors' opinions with Gitlab regardless.
- ZephyrBlu 6y ago
  No idea. I agree it's stupid. I guess they're trying to be authentic, though this just seems low effort.
ralph84 6y ago
The place for employees to post their personal opinion that doesn’t represent the company is their personal blog, not “about.gitlab.com/blog”. After you’ve raised almost half a billion dollars in funding, you can afford a PR person to review posts that appear on the company blog.
- ZephyrBlu 6y ago
  A PR person did review the post. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26557589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26557589
  - boleary-gl 6y ago
    Where does that show anyone from the PR department approving it? I don't see anyone I recognize from the PR department there... This is how "unfiltered" blogs work: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/unfiltered/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/unfiltered/
    - ZephyrBlu 6y ago
      Ah sorry I misread "PR" as in Pull Request for "PR" as in Public Relations. I believe there were at least marketing people involved in approving the post though.