How UBS created their own DevOps platform using GitLabHow GitLab helped power more than a million builds in six months on UBS DevCloud. UBS, the largest truly global wealth manager, uses GitLab to power DevCloud, a single DevOps platform that allows for a cloud-based, service-oriented, software… Aug 04 21August 04, 2021Article at about.gitlab.com
How the open source development community can build more accessible softwareThe open source software community is built on the idea that everyone can contribute, and that includes people living with disabilities. GitLab team members share their ideas for building more accessible, open source software. Apr 07 21April 07, 2021Article at about.gitlab.com
5 Ways to level up your remote engineering skillsA round-up of our blog posts unpacking the top tips for working remotely as an engineer. The COVID-19 pandemic means many engineering teams have made the shift from working under one roof to working remotely. For some companies that change could be… Mar 12 21March 12, 2021Article at about.gitlab.com
How async and all-remote make Agile simplerEngineers at GitLab and IssueTrak share their tips on adopting Agile while working remotely. Whether you have the Agile manifesto memorized or thought agility was a sport for dogs, there are a few core principles that engineers and non-engineering… Mar 02 21March 02, 2021Article at about.gitlab.com
How to carry out remote work team collaborationSome tips for successful asynchronous collaboration from all-remote engineering teams. This post is the third in our ongoing series about remote work and engineering. Check out the previous posts, Tips for engineering managers learning to lead… Feb 09 21February 09, 2021Article at about.gitlab.com
Tips for managing remote working engineering teamsNewly remote engineering managers – how's it going? We offer some tips from our team members who manage remotely. The transition from working in an office to working for an all-remote company isn’t always easy. Many engineers are used to… Jan 29 21January 29, 2021Article at about.gitlab.com
These are your favorite GitLab engineering storiesFrom building a Web IDE, to our migration to GCP, to tracking down a bug in NFS – these are some of our most popular engineering blog posts. Some of our most popular and enduring engineering stories show how we use GitLab technology to take small… Jan 07 21January 07, 2021Article at about.gitlab.com
How to use GitLab for Agile, CI/CD, GitOps, and moreRead our example engineering stories from the past two years that show how to use GitLab for you DevOps cycle, including GitOps, CI/CD and more. On this blog, our community frequently shares tips, tricks, stories, and tutorials that demonstrate how… Dec 17 20December 17, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com
Improving DevOps and software development with communication and collaborationThe most important skills for a DevOps pro? Collaboration and communication. We share some of our best blogs, articles, and videos to help you work better, together. We believe that the best software developers, companies, and products are those that… Nov 23 20November 23, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com
3 Tips for women in tech (and allies) to challenge impostor syndromeWomen at GitLab share valuable insights about mentorship, microinclusions, and remembering your hard work, to counter impostor syndrome. In an environment where women-identifying individuals make up about 34.4% of the total workforce, tech is not… Oct 16 20October 16, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com
How to use DevOps to pay off your technical debtTechnical debt is a universal problem with an equally universal solution – DevOps. Here's how DevOps can reduce the tech debt burden and help you deploy faster and more frequently. One of the primary resource constraints in the DevOps world is… Oct 05 20October 05, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com
Need DevOps buy-in? Here's how to convince stakeholdersWe know that DevOps is key to staying nimble in an increasingly competitive marketplace, but chances are your colleagues in finance or marketing aren’t as well-informed about software development. One of the major challenges technology teams embedded… Sep 24 20September 24, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com
How to tackle impostor syndrome while working remotelyIsolation can cause impostor syndrome to flourish. We explain how adopting a growth mindset can help stop impostor syndrome in its tracks. Now that the pandemic has shifted office operations at countless companies across all industries from in-person… Sep 02 20September 02, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com
Our journey to a more diverse and inclusive workplaceGitLab is taking action to create a more equitable and representative workplace for underrepresented groups. Despite the talent of Black leaders, there are glaring disparities in representation of Black professionals in positions of power in a number… Jun 16 20June 16, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com
Best practices to keep your Kubernetes runners movingIn a presentation at GitLab Commit San Francisco, a senior software engineer from F5 Networks shares some best practices for working with Kubernetes runners. Sometimes in software engineering, you have to learn the hard way. GitLab CI is extremely… May 27 20May 27, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com
Inside GitLab: How we release software patchesAt GitLab, we tackle software patches in two ways – hands on and automatically. Learn how the release manager works to create and deliver essential fixes with auto-deploy releases on GitLab.com and patch releases for self-managed users. You can set… May 13 20May 13, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com
Why AppsFlyer moved from Bitbucket to GitLabAppsFlyer migrated from Mercurial to Git so the company could move to GitLab's open source, self-managed solution. Research shows that more users are choosing GitLab as their preferred version control system. In an analysis by The New Stack of the… Apr 27 20April 27, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com
The trouble with technical interviews? They aren't like the job you're interviewing forForget the coding exercise. Here's how to create realistic scenarios for engineering candidates in technical interviews. Interviewing for an engineering job in the tech world can mean you’ll be asked all sorts of questions. Sometimes, the job… Mar 19 20March 19, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com
We're dogfooding a tool to help visualize high-level trends in GitLab projectsOur policy at GitLab is to dogfood everything – meaning we aren't going to introduce a new product or feature to our DevOps platform before our engineering team tests it out. Sometimes though, the development process happens in reverse: The product… Jan 30 20January 30, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com
Why we scoped down to build up error trackingWhen our vision for error tracking is fully realized, the developers who use GitLab will be able to find and fix errors before their customers ever report them, all while staying in our tool. But waiting until our error tracking feature is pristine… Jan 23 20January 23, 2020Article at about.gitlab.com