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How (and Why) GitLab Upgraded from Postgres 9.6 to 11 — Some of the GitLab team explain the precise maintenance process they took to execute a major version upgrade of Postgres on their systems. And, even better, they recorded the whole 2 hour process so you can see how it was actually conducted! It doesn’t make for exciting viewing, but it’s a very uncommon...

GitLab's Tech Stack Applications Diagram and Spreadsheet — It’s neat to see what systems a popular, widely distributed company like GitLab is using. The spreadsheet goes into quite some detail.

What Tracking Down Missing TCP Keepalives Taught Me About Docker, Go, and GitLab — An in-depth recap of debugging a bug in the Docker client library.

GitLab Raises $268 Million, Now Valued at $2.75 Billion — The aim is to improve their devops side of things (monitoring, security, CI, etc.) to be ‘best in class.’ A planned IPO in 2020 is also on their mind.

Is Serverless The End of Ops? (No..) — With a serverless architecture carrying all of the ops load, what does that mean for sysadmins? Ultimately.. just more complexity as serverless is just one paradigm amongst many.

An Inside Look at Software Testing at GitLab — Director of quality engineering Mek Stittri talks test technology and the future of automation at GitLab.

Lessons GitLab Learnt When Debugging A Scaling Problem — GitLab, a popular alternative to GitHub, deals with over 300 Git-over-SSH connections per second so debugging a handful of broken ones is a serious undertaking. It makes for a great story though and you’ll definitely take something away from this one.

3 Strategies for Implementing A Microservices Architecture — Dump the monolith and get into microservices with these three ideas.. the ‘strangler’ method, the Lego strategy, or how about the nuclear option!