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Engineering

Ruby 2.7: Understand and debug problems with heap compaction

An overview of Ruby 2.7 heap compaction and the risks it adds to production Rails applications.

Engineering

How we used parallel CI/CD jobs to increase our productivity

GitLab uses parallel jobs to help long-running jobs run faster.

Engineering

Lessons in iteration from a new team in infrastructure

A new, small team at GitLab discovered that minimum viable change applies to scaling problems too.

Unfiltered

Scaling down: How we shrank image transfers by 93%

Our approach to delivering an image scaling solution to speed up GitLab site rendering

Engineering

How we migrated application servers from Unicorn to Puma

It's been a long journey but with the release of GitLab 13.0 Puma is our default application server. Here's what we did and learned along the way.

Engineering

How we scaled async workload processing at GitLab.com using Sidekiq

Sidekiq was a great tool for async processing until it couldn't keep up. Here's how we made it scale.

News

Artifact and job meta data expiration settings are changing for GitLab.com

Default expiration dates for job meta data and artifacts will change on June 22, 2020. Find out how this benefits all users of GitLab.com

Engineering

How autoscaling GitLab CI works on AWS Fargate

Run your CI jobs as AWS Fargate tasks with GitLab Runner and the Fargate Driver

Open Source

How Git Partial Clone lets you fetch only the large file you need

Work faster with this experimental Partial Clone feature for huge Git repositories, saving you time, bandwidth, and storage, one large file at a time.

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