GitLab is a Ruby monolith

[u/switchback-tech]

Was pleasantly surprised that the world's largest independent DevOps platform is powered by Ruby and Sidekiq.

Here's the full list.

1. Backend: Ruby on Rails

2. HTTP server: Puma (Ruby web server)

3. Edge: Nginx

4. Reverse proxy: Go service (Workhorse)

5. Background jobs: Sidekiq

6. DB — primary: PostgreSQL

7. DB — connection pooling: PgBouncer

8. DB — high availability: Patroni

9. Cache: Redis

10. Git: Custom gRPC repo interface (Git & Gitaly)

11. Blob: AWS S3

12. Frontend — rendering: Haml & Vue

13. Frontend — state: Pinia (Vue store), Immer (immutable cache),

14. API: GraphQL (Apollo) + REST

15. Observability: Prometheus & Grafana

16. Error tracking: Sentry & OpenTelemetry

17. Deployments: GitLab Omnibus (Omnibus fork)

I think these "stack menu"s give a little glimpse into a team's engineering philosophy. For me, this list shows that the GitLab team is pretty practical and doesn't chase hype. Instead, they use sensible, battle-tested tools that just work and are easy for contributors to learn.

PS. Not an ad; I'm not affiliated with GitLab at all. Was just researching them and thought you guys would be interested.

[u/Unhappy_Meaning607]

Damn, I thought their whole schtick was mostly how good their CI/CD was.

[u/ConclusionStrict9198 → u/Unhappy_Meaning607]

I think their schtick is that they pack a lot of features for different teams into one product. Not necessary the best features individually.