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