If you’ve ever waited 12 seconds for a git clone of a 5GB monorepo behind a corporate firewall, you know the cost of poor Git server performance: $47k annual productivity loss for a 50-person engineering team, per our 2024 internal benchmark. For 15 years, I’ve tuned Git infrastructure for teams from 4-person startups to 10k+ engineer orgs, and the debate between lightweight Gitea and feature-heav
There's a moment every developer knows. You need to generate a PDF. It looks simple. You've done harder things. Three hours later, you're reading a Stack Overflow thread from 2016 that ends with "works on my machine." This post is about that moment — the actual options, what breaks in each, and where I landed after years of hitting this in production. It uses a stripped-down WebKit engine and conv