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Lawrence Hecht

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Tag: GitLab

Is your company / organization tied to any tooling stack / platform?
October 21, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

GitLab Thrives in China and with Open Source

The DevOps platform’s “land and expand” strategy has helped it grow quickly and reach into countries where competitors like GitHub and Atlassian have struggled to gain traction.

May 21, 2020February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Unmaintained Dependencies and Other Ways to Measure CI/CD Security

I look at five recent studies, with a focus on CI/CD and open source. As always, the analysis goes beyond the press release-based reporting you may have read elsewhere.

top 50 packages for package managers: Maven, pip, npm, NuGet, RubyGems
November 7, 2019February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Making Sense of the GitHub Octoverse Report

A few quick takes on GitHub’s annual report includes insights on non-U.S. contributions, developers supporting dependencies and the number of private repos.

number of software delivery toolchains maintained by software organiztions
September 5, 2019February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

One Toolchain to Manage All Development Is a CI/CD-Vendor Obsession

Measuring CI/CD adoption is difficult for many reasons, but one of them is the choice between all-in-one bundled software or best-of-breed tooling.

tools to manage open source code repos
September 6, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Even Open Sourcers Pay for Code Repositories

Alternative vendor offerings are still commonly used to manage open source code. More research is needed to determine Atlassian Bitbucket or GitLab will lose customers to a paid version of GitHub.

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