“A hot-standby is a PostgreSQL replica that allows you to run read-only SQL queries, contrary to a regular standby that does not allow any SQL queries to be executed.”— Yorick Peterse, about.gitlab.com
“For example, over 2,000 new repos are being created during peak hours, and CI runners are requesting new builds 3,000,000 times per hour. It's an interesting problem to have. We have to store this information somewhere and make sure that while we're gaining data and users, GitLab.com keeps working f…”— Pablo Carranza, about.gitlab.com