On: 2 Years at Twitter

[reducesuffering]

> 1. GitLab will charge you $20/month/user.

> 2. If you have 2000 SWEs you'll pay 40k/month just to have access to the website.

So the cost of just 1 more engineer... 2001 instead of the 20 extra that this build team creates.

[KptMarchewa → reducesuffering]

In 2012, GitLab was just a HN beta. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428278

In that year, Twitter had 100 million users and already functioning build system, that they opensourced soon later.