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by debaserab2 3424 days ago
> (never a few lines)

You'd be surprised what you can do by carefully considering what the desired outcome actually needs to be.

Maybe there is justification for all the gems in gitlab's Gemfile, I didn't go through it with a fine tooth comb - but this reaffirms my experience that complex projects outgrow monolith codebases. Having an infrastructure outage take down your entire business is kind of a symptom of that.