[edjboston]

GitLab VPE here. We apologize for the site performance degradation today.

We do have a dedicated DB team of three people. We also have an open vacancy for the team's manager and and individual contributor.

We are in the midst of a move from Azure to GCP. That means more work than usual is going on currently because we're replicating data across infrastructure-as-a-service providers and keeping the site running. This has been the case for a couple months now and it's shouldn't impact site performance. Today's site slowness was unfortunately due to a manual mistake related to a Postgres upgrade task.

[2] This article is old. A move to metal never happened, and is not in our future plans. In fact, after we move to GCP we are likely to set up a CloudSQL replica and evaluate it's performance