williamchia

I work at GitLab and can shed some light here. As a 100% remote company we work in all timezone. Writing things down actually helps make things more efficient. At my last job, to get anything done I needed to call a meeting because state lived in people's heads. When someone left, of if you couldn't get them to a meeting, it was very painful. It took forever to get things done because you needed to physically be present in order to work. At GitLab because so much is documented it's easy to pick up state and collaborate with co-workers in all timezones. What's cool, is because it's public, other random people will jump in and help you out that you'd never expect since they have access to everything you have.

I've been at GitLab about 2 years. While I've worked remote and on teams with remote members, there is a huge difference when everyone is remote.

I'd estimiate that I am 2x-3x more productive than any job I've had before because of the all-remote culuture. I get to work less and produce more outcomes. Documenting everything and having documentation from others is a major reason for this.

Yes, you've touched on a key difference between Jenkins and GitLab in general:

Jenkins: only does CI/CD, needs to be integrated with a suite of other tools.

GitLab: end-to-end DevOps in one application that has native project planning, source code management, CI/CD, artifact repository, configuration management, and observability built-in.

So Jenkins-X Serverless is about the Jenkins service itself running in a serverless paradigm. Or "using Knative to run Jenkins"

GitLab Serverless is a configuration management feature that allows you to build, deploy, and manage your own serverless functions from the same place where your issues, code, artifacts, etc. are. Or "Using GitLab (which uses Knative) to run your functions."

I'm curious how you came to this conclusion about GitLab's business model? GitLab is pretty clear on the homepage. The business model is to compete in 9 different categories, only one of which is GitHub. (GitLab pricing is also higher than GitHub which makes sense when the offering provides more the functionality.)

> Bosses never expect an email to be answered immediately.

Sounds like wherever you were working before was doing it wrong.

I work remote and no one ever expects immediate email or slack. It is because the whole company is remote that this is the case - you can't have this type of expectation when folks are in every time zone across the globe.

Although I love remote, it's not for everyone. There's a lot to be said for perks like gym, dental, etc. It's really nice that you found a good fit!

GitLab the open source project was started in 2011. GitLab the company didn't start until 2014. GitHub is 6 years older than GitLab.

GV operates independently of Google (part of why the name changed officially form “Google Ventures” to GV) GitLab parters with and supports multiple clouds - e.g. GitLab announced official support for Amazon EKS, and IBM Cloud runs GitLab Core for version control.