[phillnom]

Title would be more accurate if it said something like "Gitlab: Business Operations - Tech Stack". I was confused for a moment why stuff like Rails and Vue.js weren't mentioned until I realized it's strictly about Business Operations.

[sytse]

Yep, maybe the mods can change the title to reflect that this is the software GitLab the company uses.

This was probably submitted to Hacker News after someone saw my tweet https://mobile.twitter.com/sytses/status/1319325053217992704 which has some questions and answers in the replies.

John already linked to the architecture of GitLab the application in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24869339 in case you are interested in that.

Happy to answer any questions about either.

[john_cogs]

This might be of interest to you - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/architecture

[mbesto]

In the IT/Tech DD world, we call this "Back Office" vs "Customer Facing".

Some of these applications appear to span both.

[whimsicalism]

> "Back Office"

Interesting, I thought "back office" was a super-set including both those (ie. CRM-y) tools and coded backend logic when a user makes a requests.

[mbesto]

Most customers don't actually interact with CRM-y tools (usually). There might be integrations to (revenue cycle management for example) from customer facing to back-office, but that's usually the delineation.

But to your point, there's some grey area here.

[oehtXRwMkIs]

I think you're confusing it with backend. Generally in traditional businesses you have reception/front desk where the customer interacts with the business and the back office where all the employees are doing various work.

[cutemonster]

Do you let the customers enter the back office in real life :-)

[dang]

Ok, changed. Thanks!

[sytse]

Thank you!

[jakelazaroff]

They mention AWS, Azure, Cloudflare and DigitalOcean so I don't think that's strictly true.

[judge2020]

They're paying money to (or have a formal business relationship with) those cloud providers, so it makes more sense.