• AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    As a user, I have to say gitlab isn’t exactly top tier, either.

    We use a selfhosted instance at my company and it a) eats resources like a badly configured Bitcoin miner and b) keeps not only changing it’s UI, but also puts 8000 different things in it.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I have no clue how they make software that’s so damn inefficient.

      Don’t even get me started, for example I bought a personal license from Jira (Atlassian) to run on my Linux server. Tiny university project, 5 users (with no one using it most of the time) and the thing ate up all my memory and used half my CPU cores just by idling. That server also hosted Minecraft, which used less resources than that…

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        1 year ago

        Jira suffers from the problem that you can configure almost everything. Pouring that into an efficient data structure (in memory and in SQL) is almost impossible, so it always has to do tons of overhead.

        I feel like ironically this freedom to adapt it to you needs makes it not only slow, but also unusable, because every bullshit business requirement gets some artefact in Jira. Even though 95% of the workflows look exactly the same in practice.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I have no clue how they make software that’s so damn inefficient.

        Software is a gas.

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      1 year ago

      I haven’t run into the resource issue (running in docker), but yeah I wish I could turn off some UI features. We never need to upload designs so why do I have to look at it on every issue?

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        1 year ago

        You can turn off features by default! Check your gitlab.rb and you will find even more stuff they have bundled in there that is off, like a matter most server 😀

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          1 year ago

          When I looked some could be disabled and some couldn’t 🤷
          I’m not a devops engineer I only play one when no one else is willing.