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EP 44: Sid Sijbrandij (Founder/CEO, GitLab) - Corporate Transparency, Open Source Philosophy, Remote Work and Global Talent Pools

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GitLab - Data Loss and How to Make It Transparent

GitLab had a big data loss and you all made the decision to actually stream it live on YouTube, your efforts to recover the data. I was told at least that this actually led to even more trust and you guys were maybe sent bottles of wine as thank yous because it was such a good educational opportunity. Do you make decisions at all times thinking about how to make it transparent to the community and the employees? Yeah, I think for that the data loss was limited, but we did have 24 hours of downtime, which is an extremely long time for such a mission critical system on GitLab.com.

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