Its not like that's something that will scale infinitely, you only have so many devs and so many repos to work on, also it's not like it's hard to backup the data, actually, you can bet that you will have a updated copy of every repo on someone's machine if things really go south.
Of all things we can outsource in our infra, git seems one of the least necessary.
Git vaults do a lot more than host remote git repos. Gitlab and github are valuable for everything else they do - the UI, PR management, issue tracking, CI, and so forth.
Having all of your issue tracking, docs wiki, build pipelines and more be reliant on a platform Ian or just comfort, it’s lock-in. If you ask a company “can’t we just switch from gitlab to github? Or the reverse, you’ll get a million reasons why it’s a huge task, because everything outside of the repo itself isn’t easily transferred.
That is what happens when huge chuck of devs expect to use software as free beer, while the people actually writing those tools need to figure out ways to pay their bills.
A big reason why we are back into timesharing, the free beer is only the thin terminal stuff.
Microsoft’s stock has tripled while also giving out a dividend the entire time.
If it’s about who owns the company, Gitlab got diluted by 25% since GitHub got bought (9%, 11%, and 6% dilutions for last two series and the IPO).
GitHub likely would be worth a lot more today, but this isn’t a fair comparison at all. Especially if you’re on HN and care about founder and employee equity, not VC equity.
Maybe on Wallstreet it's worth more, but I personally don't see much differentiation from a fundamental product standpoint. Source code, PRs and issues are the core of the solution for most. After a certain point, adding more features is going to distract from this.
Also, some of the listed "features" are things I would actively prefer not to have, such as "self-managed reliability". Kinda the whole point of me paying that bill is so I don't have to spend time on menial IT bullshit. I want to live in a fantasy where my source control and project tracking is hosted in a perfect way so I can focus on my product and not someone else's.
Of course, "Microsoft bad", so factor that in accordingly as you see fit.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 70.9 ms ] threadIts not like that's something that will scale infinitely, you only have so many devs and so many repos to work on, also it's not like it's hard to backup the data, actually, you can bet that you will have a updated copy of every repo on someone's machine if things really go south.
Of all things we can outsource in our infra, git seems one of the least necessary.
Unless you get too comfortable with the services' tertiary benefits, and that's not lock in — that's just comfort.
A big reason why we are back into timesharing, the free beer is only the thin terminal stuff.
Oracle? IBM? Facebook?
>Printing money makes bubbles.
You're not wrong...
If it’s about who owns the company, Gitlab got diluted by 25% since GitHub got bought (9%, 11%, and 6% dilutions for last two series and the IPO).
GitHub likely would be worth a lot more today, but this isn’t a fair comparison at all. Especially if you’re on HN and care about founder and employee equity, not VC equity.
Also, some of the listed "features" are things I would actively prefer not to have, such as "self-managed reliability". Kinda the whole point of me paying that bill is so I don't have to spend time on menial IT bullshit. I want to live in a fantasy where my source control and project tracking is hosted in a perfect way so I can focus on my product and not someone else's.
Of course, "Microsoft bad", so factor that in accordingly as you see fit.
Partial Resume of Financials:
Operating Income: From a loss of -128 million in 2020 to a loss of -208 million in 2021
Cost of Revenue: Increased from 9 million in 2020 to 24 million in 2021
Free Cash Flow: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/freecashflow.asp
From -60 million in 2020 to -74 million in 2021
Results: Wall Street goes wild and values it at 16.5 Billion ( that is with a B) :-)
Peak 2021 Dot-com bubble anyone ?