WHAT IT WAS LIKE WORKING FOR GITLAB

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

This author shares their learnings from their time at GitLab, focusing on aspects like company culture, product development, and team structure. GitLab prioritized self-hosted installations over the SaaS offering, leading to performance issues. Since GitLab offered both a SaaS and self-hosted model, it created conflicts of interest and challenges in maintaining separate codebases. Using Ruby on Rails allowed the company to grow fast, but created some challenges with performance and maintainability.