Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

Re:Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab? by dineshp2 on Friday July 08, 2016 @01:04PM (#12056991)

> I can get someone from the backend performance team to comment too if you'd like :)

Sure!

> the biggest bottleneck at this point is with the file system.

Would something like AWS EFS [1] solve the problem?

It might not be a practical solution from a cost perspective though. Eg: for 50TB of data at $0.3/GB/month

  0.3*1024*50 =   $15360/month

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/efs/

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab? by pcarranza on Friday July 08, 2016 @04:32PM (#12058429)

The main issue with this is that this would be a vendor specific solution that would lock everybody.

We build a product that you can host yourself. If we only solve the scaling issue by pushing it down to a specific vendor, then there is no actual solution.

The way we are facing the problem is first by enabling a really easy and simple form of sharding (that would solve most of the issues that a lot of big customers may face), and then by using an open source underlaying filesystem that can scale reasonably well.

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