The trends underlying GitLab‘s growth and recent IPO are often misunderstood. Our own recent survey found that more companies are paying GitLab to manage open source repositories in 2021. At the same time, those paying a company besides GitHub for help managing a code repo rose from 30% to 37% since 2019.
Even more notable is GitLab’s strength in China: in a 2021 JetBrains survey, 57% of respondents from China reported they use it for artifact/repository management as compared to 35% that utilize GitHub. As GitLab continues to push itself as a DevOps platform, it will continue to promote itself as both a single toolchain companies can rely on and as part of a larger offering that platform teams offer developers.
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