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Customer Story: Stack Overflow

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GitLab
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549
Company Posts That Month
15
Language
English
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Summary

Stack Overflow, a global support network for programmers, has adopted GitLab as its primary source control solution, following initial trials with Git-web and Kiln, due to GitLab's superior development and performance enhancements. Operating largely remotely from its New York headquarters, Stack Overflow's development team of 30 leverages GitLab on-premises, while opting for Team City instead of GitLab's integrated CI, and employs a self-hosted chat system. The use of GitLab has been pivotal in the company's ongoing efforts to provide a reliable and maintainable platform for building a comprehensive library of programming solutions. Stack Overflow developers, who are active in the open-source community, have experienced improvements in development time, code review, and collaboration, and have started using LDAP integration and exploring GitLab Geo for potential solutions to multi-datacenter replication challenges. The team emphasizes maintenance, reliability, and maintainability as crucial considerations, and they are eager to enhance their search experience to further benefit their work.

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