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'GitLab is a slam dunk': One team lead weighs his options

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Emily von Hoffmann
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1,457
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English
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Summary

Warren Postma, a team lead at RamSoft, has become an advocate for GitLab, both in his personal projects and professional endeavors. Having transitioned his team from Subversion to Git and GitLab, he emphasizes the platform's advantages in a distributed work environment, particularly its decentralized nature, which supports his multicultural and geographically diverse team. Warren highlights the importance of overcoming ingrained habits when switching to GitLab CI and praises its integrated toolset that combines version control, issue tracking, and CI/CD capabilities. He prefers GitLab over alternatives like Bitbucket due to its open-source nature and robust community, and he sees significant potential in GitLab providing support for smaller companies. Warren's experiences include facilitating the setup and maintenance of private GitLab instances and advocating for its use among peers, while he also expresses interest in developing educational resources to aid teams transitioning from Subversion to Git.

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