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Mar 24, 2024 · R&D Management

What It Was Really Like Working at GitLab: Lessons on Scaling, Performance, and Culture

The author recounts six years at GitLab, detailing the challenges of scaling a rapidly growing remote company, building performance monitoring tools and a database load balancer, confronting cultural and management issues, and sharing hard‑won lessons on scalability, deployment speed, product strategy, and remote work dynamics.