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Why we implemented our own SSHD solution Until recently we used OpenSSH Server to handle SSH connections to provide SSH-related features, but we ultimately decided to implement our own SSHD solution. Learn more! Author: Igor Drozdov Read Post

Engineering

How we improved on-call life by reducing pager noise

Too many pages? Here's how we tackled on-call SRE quality of life by grouping alerts by service and only paging on downstream services.

Engineering

How we share SLIs across engineering departments

The Scalability team engages with the Development department for collaborating on SLIs. The first post in this series explains how we made available information accessible for development groups.

Engineering

Ruby 2.7: Understand and debug problems with heap compaction

An overview of Ruby 2.7 heap compaction and the risks it adds to production Rails applications.

Engineering

This SRE attempted to roll out an HAProxy config change. You won't believe what happened next...

This post is about a wild discovery made while investigating strange behavior from HAProxy. We dive into the pathology, describe how we found it, and share some investigative techniques used along the way.

News

Automation check-in and rate limit changes on GitLab.com

GitLab is making some changes to our rate limits on GitLab.com starting in January 2021.

Engineering

How to make Docker Hub rate limit monitoring a breeze

Docker Hub Rate Limits are enforced and we need to find ways to monitor the remaining pull requests. Explore some ways to create a monitoring plugin for Nagios/Icinga/Sensu/Zabbix and test-drive a new Prometheus exporter in combination with Grafana.

Engineering