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Published on: January 10, 2019
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2018: GitLab's year in review
Take a look at the highlight reel from 2018 – from landing $100M in funding to welcoming a host of great open source projects to GitLab.
In 2018, we added 289 new team members, raised another round of funding, spread the word about remote work, surpassed 2,000 contributors, welcomed some awesome open source projects to GitLab, and shipped 12 releases. It's been a banner year for GitLab, so before diving into 2019, we invite you to peer back through the mists of time at the top events from the past year, according to our community:
Product news
We announced GitLab Serverless
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Announcing GitLab Serverless 🚀https://t.co/Iu4GwHsaYK
— GitLab (@gitlab) December 11, 2018
We introduced Meltano
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Hey, data teams! We're working on a tool just for you. Read all about Meltano, from @jakecodes & @tayloramurphy1 ✌️ https://t.co/egEzILPNzu
— GitLab (@gitlab) August 1, 2018
You got really excited about the Web IDE
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👋 Meet the GitLab Web IDE!https://t.co/vhx2RR1uU6
— GitLab (@gitlab) June 15, 2018
We successfully migrated to GCP and have noticed some improvements
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What's up with https://t.co/W0iwxWzEZ8? I wrote an analysis of @GitLab's stability and performance since we migrated to @googlecloud in August.https://t.co/8JvvbVq9wJ #GoogleCloud #Cloud #DevOps #SaaS #performance pic.twitter.com/L6TWhh2Z0B
— Andrew Newdigate (@suprememoocow) October 11, 2018
AND you can check out all our releases from 2018 (and from all time) over here.
Community news
GNOME moves to GitLab
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Anyway, I'm proud of @gnome because we achieved it, we made a huge effort on adapting and will continue doing it because that's who we are. And with this, I want to announce that the mass migration to @gitlab is now completed! Welcome all to 2018! 🎉
— Carlos Soriano (@csoriano1618) May 29, 2018
Drupal moves to GitLab
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Welcome to the party @drupal! 🎉 https://t.co/umLw6YlSTl
— GitLab (@gitlab) August 16, 2018
Freedesktop.org moves to GitLab
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We get pretty excited when open source projects tell us they’re #movingtogitlab. Welcome, #freedesktop! https://t.co/oLIfXZb7Va
— GitLab (@gitlab) August 21, 2018
Errrrrybody is #movingtogitlab
Well, not quite, but 10x the normal daily number is still a big deal 😎
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We're seeing 10x the normal daily amount of repositories #movingtogitlab https://t.co/7AWH7BmMvM We're scaling our fleet to try to stay up. Follow the progress on https://t.co/hN0ce379SC and @movingtogitlab
— GitLab (@gitlab) June 3, 2018
Y'all had feelings about burnout
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‣ Don't go straight to work after you wake up.
— GitLab (@gitlab) March 18, 2018
‣ Put #Slack notifications on dnd on weekends.
‣ When you notice someone in a different time zone should be asleep, tell them.https://t.co/zKiytIMXsJ
And everyone struggles with Git sometimes
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Git happens! Here's how to fix it 💅https://t.co/IMAuDH8j3P
— GitLab (@gitlab) November 2, 2018
How & why to keep your Git commit history clean 💻✨ via @Kushal_Pandya https://t.co/HbYv2KsyGQ
— GitLab (@gitlab) June 11, 2018
We celebrated 20 years of open source ❤️
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We're excited to celebrate the 20th anniversary of open source this year at #OSCON! Check out our brief history of OSS ✨ https://t.co/ox2s1rDS9f pic.twitter.com/LIdQtQWeoO
— GitLab (@gitlab) July 16, 2018
And made GitLab Gold free for open source projects and educational institutions 🎉
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Today, we're excited to announce that GitLab Ultimate and Gold are now free for educational institutions and open source projects 💜https://t.co/5PA08IYnwM
— GitLab (@gitlab) June 5, 2018
We celebrated inspiring GitLab users
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Video and blog about my journey from stunting motorcycles to #Kubernetes - and some gushing about my love for @gitlab https://t.co/ro73lucF7n
— Leah Petersen (@eccomi_leah) June 21, 2018
And there was lots of love for GitLab swag
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Thanks for the swag @gitlab. That's one reason to contribute 😃 pic.twitter.com/58Z1PsGTen
— Amit Rathi (@amittrathi) December 17, 2018
It’s the first time that I receive a birthday gift from the company that I work for. It’s simple, small and modest... but it goes a long way. Thanks @gitlab I love them 😍👍🎉 pic.twitter.com/AMCUdQevFu
— Matej Latin (@matejlatin) September 11, 2018
When it comes to swag, @gitlab has raised the bar. This is an actual wooden pin. More pins as swag please 😬 cheers @samdbeckham pic.twitter.com/bcZtvqAjPE
— Sophie Koonin (@type__error) November 1, 2018
Thank you to @gitlab for the swag! Dear participants, we have many things for you 😁 pic.twitter.com/9BINX4UbLD
— TechForum eXplore (@TeXWL) June 26, 2018
First package of swag for our CI/CD #Hackathon arrived - yes: there will be @gitlab socks! 49 people RSVPed so far - it‘s gonna be epic! via @MeetupDE https://t.co/fZtBd7VZRi pic.twitter.com/qyLbTeZN2t
— Michael Lihs (@kaktusmimi) March 4, 2018
GitLab news
We announced Series D funding and joined the 🦄 club
In September we announced $100 million in Series D funding, led by ICONIQ Capital. This brought our valuation to over $1 billion, and we couldn't be more excited to use this momentum to become best-in-class in every DevOps software category, from planning to monitoring.
We made #44 on the Inc. 5000 list
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ICYMI: We made number 44 on the #inc5000 list of 2018's fastest-growing companies 🎉: https://t.co/x3jBqItfVK
— GitLab (@gitlab) August 22, 2018
We hung out IRL in beautiful Cape Town
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Good morning from Cape Town! It's Day 6 of the GitLab Summit 😍 pic.twitter.com/WHvaSnKHM4
— GitLab (@gitlab) August 28, 2018
We made #17 on YC's 2018 Top Companies list
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Feeling proud of everyone @GitLab: as of October 2018, we are number 17 of the @YCombinator Top Companies List, among companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, Reddit and Twitch https://t.co/UQZCaBAUeJ pic.twitter.com/YUJbDhRSyq
— Pedro MS (@PedroMScom) November 29, 2018
And we debuted some 🔥 integrations
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Apple just announced Xcode 10 is now integrated with GitLab pic.twitter.com/eQbtiY4IYm
— GitLab (@gitlab) June 4, 2018
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We’re so excited to announce the new GKE integration for GitLab! Now you’re just moments away from a scalable development environment. https://t.co/4RRVOXlrwz pic.twitter.com/RSWwZDSPup
— GitLab (@gitlab) April 5, 2018
That's all for now! We can't wait to see what 2019 will bring 🌟 As always, come hang out and tweet us your thoughts @gitlab.
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