The most impacted user had ~500ms latency to the server, which is enough that even pageloads are bound to feel slow (especially because Gitlab itself is not nec

The most impacted user had ~500ms latency to the server, which is enough that even pageloads are bound to feel slow (especially because Gitlab itself is not necessarily the fastest thing in the world sometimes.) And if I am remembering correctly, I think that was basically it: the UI pageloads just had enough chained round trips that they were way too slow. In retrospect, there may have been some ways to work around this that we didn’t end up exploring. When I moved to a new company, the GitLab instance was still up, and last I was aware, many years down the road, it is still in use. Feature-wise, we were very much satisfied, and the GitLab CI model with Docker executors worked very well for us.