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
On Second Thought — Episode 06 The ORM hides the SQL. The cache hides the ORM. The service mesh hides the services. The operator hides the YAML, which already hid the kubelet, which already hid the container, which already hid the process. By Tuesday, nobody quite remembers what the original problem was. They are too busy configuring its sixth wrapper. This is the post about that wrapper. When som