GitLab

AI coding assistants are boosting developer productivity, but most enterprises aren’t shipping software any faster. GitLab CEO Bill Staples says the reason is simple: coding was never the main bottleneck. After speaking with more than 60 customers, Staples found that developers spend only 10–20% of their time writing code. The remaining 80–90% is consumed by reviews, CI/CD pipelines, security scans, compliance checks, and deployment—areas that remain largely unautomated. Faster code generation only worsens downstream queues. GitLab’s response is its newly GA’ed Duo Agent Platform, designed to automate the full software development lifecycle. The platform introduces “agent flows,” multi-step orchestrations that can take work from issue creation through merge requests, testing, and validation. Staples argues that context is the key differentiator. Unlike standalone coding tools that only see local code, GitLab’s all-in-one platform gives agents access to issues, epics, pipeline history, security data, and more through a unified knowledge graph. Staples believes this platform approach, rather than fragmented point solutions, is what will finally unlock enterprise software delivery at scale.   Learn more from The New Stack about the latest around GitLab and AI:  GitLab Launches Its AI Agent Platform in Public Beta GitLab’s Field CTO Predicts: When DevSecOps Meets AI Join our community of newsletter subscribers to stay on top of the news and at the top of your game.

Bill Staples

CEO

GitLabNew Relic

We’re joined by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO. In late 2022, Sid discovered that he had bone cancer. That started a journey he’s been on ever since… a journey that he shares with us in great detail. Along the way, Sid continued founding companies including Kilo Code, an all-in-one agentic engineering platform, which he also tells us all about. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. Featuring: Sid Sijbrandij – Website, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Sid’s cancer journey Kilo.ai Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sid Sijbrandij

Co-Founder and CEO

GitLabKilo Code

At KubeCon North America 2025, GitLab’s Emilio Salvador outlined how developers are shifting from individual coders to leaders of hybrid human–AI teams. He envisions developers evolving into “cognitive architects,” responsible for breaking down large, complex problems and distributing work across both AI agents and humans. Complementing this is the emerging role of the “AI guardian,” reflecting growing skepticism around AI-generated code. Even as AI produces more code, humans remain accountable for reviewing quality, security, and compliance. Salvador also described GitLab’s “AI paradox”: developers may code faster with AI, but overall productivity stalls because testing, security, and compliance processes haven’t kept pace. To fix this, he argues organizations must apply AI across the entire development lifecycle, not just in coding. GitLab’s Duo Agent Platform aims to support that end-to-end transformation. Looking ahead, Salvador predicts the rise of a proactive “meta agent” that functions like a full team member. Still, he warns that enterprise adoption remains slow and advises organizations to start small, build skills, and scale gradually. Learn more from The New Stack about the evolving role of "cognitive architects": The Engineer in the AI Age: The Orchestrator and Architect The New Role of Enterprise Architecture in the AI Era The Architect’s Guide to Understanding Agentic AI Join our community of newsletter subscribers to stay on top of the news and at the top of your game.

Emilio Salvador

GitLab

Bill Staples has spent 30 years redefining how the world writes, ships, and secures code. On this week’s Grit, the GitLab CEO shares what it takes to lead a public, all-remote DevSecOps company trusted by more than half of the Fortune 100. He breaks down the discipline of managing energy instead of hours, why weekly operating cadences beat quarterly plans, and how AI will 10× software engineers by auto-debugging code and closing security gaps. Guest: Bill Staples, CEO of GitLab Chapters: 00:00 Trailer 00:42 Introduction 02:34 True joy in life 08:16 Winning teams 13:53 When the energy isn’t there 18:00 Super ambitious 21:01 It’s not just technology 29:27 Elevating quality and standard 41:36 Lifelong collaborator 51:22 Competent intelligence 54:22 Structuring goals and time 1:03:59 Who GitLab is hiring 1:04:17 What “grit” means to Bill 1:04:54 Outro Links: Connect with Bill LinkedIn Connect with Joubin X LinkedIn Email: grit@kleinerperkins.com Learn more about Kleiner Perkins

Bill Staples

CEO

GitLabNew Relic

They also: Emphasize the critical role of customer feedback in shaping products, highlighting how continuous feedback loops drive innovation and improvement. Explore how AI is empowering non-technical team members and enabling meaningful collaboration between developers and other departments. Discuss the potential of GenAI as a learning tool and the importance of prompt engineering as a key skill for future developers. Episode notes: Connect with Lee Faus on LinkedIn, X, and learn more about GitLab. Learn more about creating a private instance of Stack Overflow for your team or org with Stack Overflow for Teams. Read about Knowledge Solutions, a subscription-based API service that provides continuous access to Stack Overflow’s public dataset to train and fine-tune large language models. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lee Faus

GitLab

Platform engineering will be a key focus at KubeCon this year, with a special emphasis on AI platforms. Priyanka Sharma, executive director of the Linux Foundation, highlighted the convergence of platform engineering and AI during an interview on The New Stack Makers with Adobe’s Joseph Sandoval. KubeCon will feature talks from experts like Chen Goldberg of CoreWeave and Aparna Sinha of CapitalOne, showcasing how AI workloads will transform platform operations. Sandoval emphasized the growing maturity of platform engineering over the past two to three years, now centered on addressing user needs. He also discussed Adobe's collaboration on CNOE, an open-source initiative for internal developer platforms. The intersection of platform engineering, Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, and AI raises questions about scaling infrastructure management with AI, potentially improving efficiency and reducing toil for roles like SRE and DevOps. Sharma noted that reference architectures, long requested by the CNCF community, will be highlighted at the event, guiding users without dictating solutions.  Learn more from The New Stack about Kubernetes:  Cloud Native Networking as Kubernetes Starts Its Second Decade Primer: How Kubernetes Came to Be, What It Is, and Why You Should Care  How Cloud Foundry Has Evolved With Kubernetes  Join our community of newsletter subscribers to stay on top of the news and at the top of your game. game. https://thenewstack.io/newsletter/

Priyanka Sharma

Director of Technical Evangelism

GitLabCloud Native Computing FoundationLinux Foundation

Joseph Sandoval

Adobe

David DeSanto is the chief product officer of GitLab, which is the largest remote-only company in the world. They share many of their team meetings on YouTube, and they’ve grown from being an open-source code management product competing with GitHub to a multi-product platform that covers security, compliance, continuous integration, project management, and deployment tools, many of which are infused with AI magic. In our conversation, we discuss: • How GitLab operationalizes transparency • The philosophy behind recording and sharing team meetings on YouTube • Their extensive public employee handbook • GitLab’s core value of having “short toes” • Challenges and advice for doing remote work well • Strategies for ensuring effective communication in a remote work environment • GitLab’s breadth-over-depth strategy • The company’s unique approach to AI • The value of using humor in high-stakes conversations — Brought to you by: • Orb—The flexible billing engine for modern pricing • Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments • Paragon—Ship every SaaS integration your customers want — Find the transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-gitlab-way — Where to find David DeSanto: • X: https://twitter.com/david_desanto • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ddesanto/ • Threads: https://www.threads.net/@david.the.beard — Where to find Lenny: • Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com • X: https://twitter.com/lennysan • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/ — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) David’s background (04:20) Maintaining an epic beard (05:29) Why GitLab publicly shares team meetings (09:49) The GitLab Handbook (11:30) GitLab’s issue tracker (14:29) How to successfully build a culture of transparency (18:11) Benefits of operating with transparency (19:55) The value of building in public (21:53) How GitLab implements their core value of kindness (25:16) What it means to have “short toes” (27:41) Other core values (32:16) Common reasons for not fitting in at GitLab (34:42) Advice for remote teams (42:04) Advice for getting into product (43:52) Advice for PMs who are struggling in a remote world (48:25) Specific tools that help with remote work (53:13) Time zones and remote work (57:18) Breadth-over-depth strategy (01:04:14) AI at GitLab (01:13:11) GitLab’s products and solutions (01:14:54) Lightning round — Referenced: • GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/ • UX Showcase—David DeSanto introduction to UX team and AMA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEdsmnVKNj4 • The GitLab Handbook: https://handbook.gitlab.com/ • Sid Sijbrandij on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sijbrandij/ • Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/ • GitLab issues: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/ • Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/ • GitLab values: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values • GitLab organizational structure: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/company/structure • GitLab direction: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ • Dogfooding: A simple practice to help you build better products: https://medium.com/agileinsider/dogfooding-a-simple-practice-to-help-you-build-better-products-b5954af4d5f7 • The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-ultimate-guide-to-adding-a-plg • Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah (co-founder/CTO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/lessons-from-30-years-of-building • HubSpot: https://www.hubspot.com/ • Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers: https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-3rd-Disruptive-Mainstream/dp/0062292986 • Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/geoffrey-moore-on-finding-your-beachhead-crossing-the-chasm-and-dominating-a-market/ • Open-core model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model • GitLab Duo: https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-duo/ • GitLab Docs: https://docs.gitlab.com/ • Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/ • GitLab Acquires UnReview to Expand Its DevOps Platform with Machine Learning Capabilities: https://about.gitlab.com/press/releases/2021-06-02-gitlab-acquires-unreview-machine-learning-capabilities/ • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: https://www.amazon.com/Essentialism-Disciplined-Pursuit-Greg-McKeown/dp/0804137382 • The Mission Critical Core/Context Model for Product Managers: https://secretpmhandbook.com/the-mission-critical-corecontext-model-for-product-managers/ • The Devil’s Hour on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/the-devils-hour/umc.cmc.3zw4tyzd4lvor5mwhujms63x3 • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81458416 • Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour on Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/TAYLOR-SWIFT-ERAS-EXTENDED-VERSION/dp/B0CP99SN2B • The STAR method: https://capd.mit.edu/resources/the-star-method-for-behavioral-interviews/ • Artifact News: https://artifact.news/ • Superhuman: https://superhuman.com/ • Arc browser: https://arc.net/ • An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/competing-with-giants-an-inside-look — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. — Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

David DeSanto

Chief Product Officer

GitLab

Scott Williamson was most recently Chief Product Officer for GitLab, where he led a team of 65 in Product Management, Product Operations, Growth, Pricing, and Corporate Development functions. Before GitLab, Scott was VP of Product for SendGrid for over six years, where helped lead the company to a successful IPO and $3B acquisition by Twilio. In Today's Episode with Scott Williamson We Discuss: 1. From Sales to Product Leader: Why does Scott believe sales is a great starting point for product people? To what extent does an MBA help someone wanting to pursue a career in product management? What does Scott know now that he wishes he had known when he started his career in product? 2. What, Who, When: How to Build a Product Team: Is product management art or science? What is the ratio? What are the four core roles of a product manager today? When is the right time to hire your first PM? What is the ideal profile for this first PM hire? What are the single biggest mistakes founders make when hiring PMs? 3. Hiring the Best Product People: What does Scott's hiring process look like for all new product hires? How does Scott test for systematic thinking and problem-solving ability? What questions does Scott always ask in interviews? What are the best case studies to use to test a candidate's skill set? How important is it for the candidate to have domain expertise in your product category? 4. The Best Product Teams are the Best Writers: What are the two different types of documents that product teams must use? How do you know when to use a one-pager vs a six-pager? How does the discussion and planning cycle for the different documents differ? How important is it for PMs to be great writers also?

Scott Williamson

Former CPO

GitLab

Guest: Ashley Kramer, CMO & CSO of GitLab One day, when Ashley Kramer was an SVP at Alteryx, one of her direct reports hit her with a dose of reality: “She said, ‘I think you are trying to put me on a path to be you, and to have your job. I don’t want any of that.’” Now the CMO and CSO of GitLab, Kramer — who has been a perfectionist since childhood — used to hold her team to the same high bar. But as she’s learned over time, “Not everybody’s gonna have your same ambition. Not everybody’s gonna work as hard as you. It doesn’t mean they’re not good at their job. It just means different things are important to them.” In this episode, Ashley and Joubin discuss what companies get wrong in CEO interviews, “the three P’s” of company values, loosely held disasters, thinking about the future, “everybody does not want to be like me”, how GitLab does meetings, pre-speech nervousness, context switching, skip-level meetings, credibility with the customer, setting the bar too high, and Naval Ravikant. In this episode, we cover: People, Passion, and Product (04:36) Joining companies right after they IPO (07:16) Scaling questions (10:28) Job-hoppers and ambition (12:06) Parents and dinner-table conversations (16:35) Coping with perfectionism (19:17) Coaching and demotivators (21:36) Confident public speaking (26:21) How Ashley got out of engineering (32:08) Being CPO and CMO of Sisense at the same time (35:49) Representing “two constituencies” (38:54) Why Ashley has two titles again (44:59) The radical transparency of GitLab (47:20) Growing pains and becoming interim CTO (51:28) Working with founder-CEOs (56:08) Tough feedback (58:20) Personal and professional OKRs (01:01:15) Work-life balance (01:03:33) How to network (01:06:10) Who GitLab is hiring and the meaning of “Grit” (01:08:58) Links: Connect with AshleyTwitter LinkedIn Connect with JoubinTwitter LinkedIn Email: grit@kleinerperkins.com  Learn more about Kleiner Perkins This episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm

Ashley Kramer

CMO & CSO

GitLab

Brought to you by Amplitude—Build better products | Miro—A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life | Ahrefs—Improve your website’s SEO for free — Hila Qu is an Executive in Residence at Reforge as well as a renowned growth advisor, angel investor, and published author (her book about growth was named one of the top 10 business books of 2018 in China). Previously, she served as the Director of Growth at GitLab, where she implemented and scaled their PLG motion, and VP of Growth at Acorns, scaling them from 1 million to 5 million users. In today’s episode, we discuss: • The importance of having both a product-led and a sales-led motion for companies of all sizes • A step-by-step process for implementing PLG • Common pitfalls of layering on PLG • How to audit your existing funnel • Conversion, activation, and retention tactics • Structuring your growth organization from day one, and as it scales — Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-ultimate-guide-to-adding-a-plg — Where to find Hila Qu: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/HilaQu • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilaqu/ — Where to find Lenny: • Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com • Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/ — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Hila’s background (03:26) The outcome of writing guest posts for Lenny’s Newsletter (05:12) Why companies should have PLG and sales (07:58) What PLG is and why it’s so popular (09:41) Zoom, an example of a PLG company (11:24) Common pitfalls in adding a PLG motion (16:06) The spectrum of when PLG makes sense (20:04) What you need to be successful in a product-led growth strategy (24:52) The first step to adding a PLG motion (30:11) What GitLab does and how the sales funnel and PLG funnel work there (34:07) Mapping out the funnel (35:29) Finding leverage and other next steps (38:24) What an aha moment is and conducting an audit (47:30) Activation and conversion  (52:17) Why you should start with activation, and who is doing it well (55:24) Retention, the messy part of the funnel (1:00:34) How Hila made an impact on retention at Acorns (1:03:03) The two buckets of data  (1:04:56) Tools for implementing a PLG motion (1:08:47) The importance of data  (1:10:20) Tips to get started, and why you need to have good data first (1:12:10) How to do a data audit (1:15:04) Building a PLG team (1:22:40) The core growth squad (1:27:51) Lightning round — Referenced: • Hila’s guest post on Lenny’s Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/five-steps-to-starting-your-plg-motion • Ravi Mehta on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/building-your-product-strategy-stack-ravi-mehta-tinder-facebook-tripadvisor-outpace/ • Amplitude: https://amplitude.com/ • GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/ • Lauryn Isford on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/mastering-onboarding-lauryn-isford-head-of-growth-at-airtable/ • Acorns: https://signup.acorns.com/ • PostHog: https://posthog.com/ • Mixpanel: https://mixpanel.com/ • Pendo: https://go.pendo.io/ • Optimizely: https://www.optimizely.com/ • Eppo: https://www.geteppo.com/ • HubSpot: https://www.hubspot.com/ • Clearbit: https://clearbit.com/ • ZoomInfo: https://www.zoominfo.com/ • Endgame: https://www.endgame.io/ • Pocus: https://www.pocus.com/ • Pace: https://www.paceapp.com/ • Toplyne: https://www.toplyne.io/ • Crystal Widjaja on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-scrappily-hire-for-measure-and-unlock-growth-crystal-widjaja-gojek-and-kumu/ • Redshift: https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/ • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness: https://www.amazon.com/Almanack-Naval-Ravikant-Wealth-Happiness-ebook/dp/B08FF8MTM6 • How Women Rise: https://www.amazon.com/How-Women-Rise-Habits-Holding/dp/1847942253/ • 硅谷增长黑客实战笔记 (Hila’s best-selling book on growth): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BZC8L78?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_ND87BRFMB0CMWBEVB747 • The Wandering Earth II: https://wellgousa.com/films/wandering-earth-ii • The Three-Body Problem: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032 • Lululemon yoga pants: https://shop.lululemon.com/c/women-pants/yoga/ • ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/chat • Someday: https://www.amazon.com/Someday-Alison-McGhee/dp/1416928111 — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

Hila Qu

Executive in Residence

ReforgeGitLab

Hila Qu is one of the leading growth execs of the last decade. Hila helped scale Acorns from 1 million to 5 million users as their VP of growth. Hila then joined GitLab, where she launched their PLG motion (on top of an established sales motion), and built their first-ever growth team. Today Hila is an advisor to amazing companies like Replit and funds like Mucker Capital, Openview and First Round Capital. In Today's Episode with Hila Qu We Discuss: 1.) From Biology and Explosions to Growth: How Hila made her way into the world of growth with growthhackers.com? What are 1-2 of the biggest takeaways from her time with Acorns and Gitlab? How do B2B growth orgs compare to B2C growth orgs? What is different? What is the same? 2.) WTF is Growth? When? How & Why: How does Hila define growth today? What is it not? When is the right time for early-stage founders to hire their first growth hire? Why does Hila always look for data analysts in this first growth hire? From a data standpoint, what should founders have ready and accessible for their first growth hire to have access to and learn from? Is Google Analytics enough? 3.) Hiring Your First Growth Hire: How should early-stage founders structure the hiring process for the first growth hire? What do the best growth job descriptions include? What do they not include? Once applications are in, how does Hila advise founders screen for the best candidates? How should founders structure the interview process post-screening? What are the must-ask questions? Who is involved in the interview process? What are some red flags? 4.) The Master of Onboarding: What should new growth hires want to achieve in the first week? What should they want to complete in the first month? In the first quarter, what do the best candidates have completed? What can founders do to set their growth hires up for success in the best way at this time? 5.) Growth Models, North Stars, Activation and Onboarding and Key KPIs: What really is a growth model? How do founders and growth teams create one? How does Hila advise founders on how to pick the right North Star Metric to focus on? Why are activation and conversion Hila's two favorite growth metrics? What are growth loops? What are growth funnels? How do they work together?

Hila Qu

Executive in Residence

ReforgeGitLab

In the 44th episode GitLab Co-Founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij discusses the importance of transparency both within a company and publicly and the philosophies of open source and success. Plus why he’s such an advocate for remote work and the troubles with hybrid offices. (0:00) Introducing Sid Sijbrandij (13:43) Corporate Transparency (22:03) Remote work (25:13) Philosophies for success (26:55) Team ops (32:37) Human elements of remote work (36:14) Hybrid work (39:07) Global talent pool (43:10) Measuring productivity (50:08) The shadow program (54:14) Staying in the Bay Area (56:57) Situational leadership (1:00:08) Outro   Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson   🎙 Listen to the show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg   Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars   About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. Executive Producer: Rashad Assir Producer: Leah Clapper Mixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA 🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow 📱 X - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the Show Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member. Tap follow and enable notifications to stay ahead of the game.

Sid Sijbrandij

Co-Founder and CEO

GitLabKilo Code

It's that time of the year again, when cloud native enthusiasts and professionals assemble to discuss all things Kubernetes. KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2023 is being held later this month in Detroit, October 24-28.   In this latest edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke with Priyanka Sharma, general manager of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation — which organizes KubeCon —and CERN computer engineer and KubeCon co-chair Ricardo Rocha. For this show, we discussed what we can expect from the upcoming event.   This year, there will be a focus on Kubernetes in the enterprise, Sharma said. "We are reaching a point where Kubernetes is becoming the de facto standard when it comes to container orchestration. And there's a reason for it. It's not just about Kubernetes. Kubernetes spawned the cloud native ecosystem and the heart of the cloud native movement is building fast, resiliently observable software that meets customer needs. So ultimately, it's making you a better provider to your customers, no matter what kind of business you are."   Of this year's topics, security will be a big theme, Rocha said. Technologies such as Falco and Cilium will be discussed. Linux kernel add-on eBPF is popping up in a lot of topics, especially around networking. Observability and hybrid deployments also weigh heavily on the agenda. "The number of solutions [around Hybrid] are quite large, so it's interesting to see what people come up with," he said.   In addition to KubeCon itself, this year there are a number of co-located events, held during or before the conference itself. Some of them hosted by CNCF while others are hosted by other companies such as Canonical. They include the Network Application Day, BackstageCon, CloudNative eBPF Day, CloudNativeSecurityCon, CloudNative WASM Day, Data-on-Kubernetes Day, EnvoyCon, gRPCConf, KNativeCon, Spinnaker Summit, Open Observability Day, Cloud Native Telco Day, Operator Day, The Continuous Delivery Summit, among others.   What's amazing is not only the number of co-located events, but the high quality of talks being held there.   "Co-located events are a great way to know what's exciting to folks in the ecosystem right now," Sharma said. "Cloud native has really become the scaffolding of future progress. People want to build on cloud native, but have their own focus areas."   WebAssembly (WASM) is a great example of this. "In the beginning, you wouldn't have thought of WebAssembly as part of the cloud native narrative, but here we are," Sharma said. "The same thinking from professionals who conceptualized cloud native in the beginning are now taking it a step further."   "There's a lot of value in co-located events, because you get a group of people for a longer period in the same room, focusing on one topic," Rocha said.   Other topics discussed in the podcast include the choice of Detroit as a conference hub, the fun activities that CNCF have planned in between the technical sessions, surprises at the keynotes, and so much more! Give it a listen.

Priyanka Sharma

Director of Technical Evangelism

GitLabCloud Native Computing FoundationLinux Foundation

Ricardo Rocha

Platform Infrastructure Team Lead

CERN

Sid Sijbrandij is the Co-founder & CEO @ GitLab. GitLab's single application helps organizations deliver software faster and more efficiently while strengthening their security and compliance. Prior to their IPO last year, Sid raised funding from some of the best including ICONIQ, GV, Tiger, Coatue and D1 to name a few. Under his leadership, the company has grown to over 1,500 employees and over 30 million registered users. If that was not enough, Sid is also an active angel and sits on the board of Meltano, a spinout of Gitlab that allows you to manage all the data tools in your stack. In Today's Episode with Sid Sijbrandij You Will Learn: 1.) The Founding of Gitlab: How did Sid make his way into the world of tech and startups? What was it about Gitlab as a project that excited Sid so much from Day 1? How did Sid convince his co-founder to turn Gitlab from a project into a company? 2.) The Future of Work: Why does Sid believe it is a fallacy that everyone will go back to the office? What are the 1-2 most important things for companies to do when moving to a remote work environment? Where does Sid see many make mistakes? What have Gitlab done to create a remote working environment so successfully? What have they tried that has not worked? What stage of company building does remote work best for? When is it most challenging? 3.) Sid: The Leader How has Sid changed and evolved as a leader over the Gitlab journey? How does Sid look to get as much feedback as possible on his leadership? How does Sid create an environment of safety where everyone feels they can provide feedback? How does Sid work with his CEO coach? Should every CEO have one? What should one look for in them? How do you know when you need to change your CEO coach? 4.) Sid: The Board Member: What have been Sid's biggest lessons on what makes successful board management? In prep for the meeting, what materials does Sid provide? When does he send them? Does he present to the board? What mistakes do founders make in boards? From being on the other side as a board member, what does Sid believe the best members do? What would Sid most like to change about board meetings today? Item's Mentioned In Today's Episode with Sid Sijbrandij Sid's Favourite Book: High Output Management

Sid Sijbrandij

Co-Founder and CEO

GitLabKilo Code

GitLab started as an open-source project that expanded into a public company with a buyer-based open-core business model. With over 300+ code contributions per month, innovating with the wider community is key to accelerating development efforts. Join GitLab CEO, Sid Sijbrandij, as he discusses GitLab's journey, choosing the right business model that balances high revenue potential and community contributions, and co-creating the product with the wider community to deliver safer software faster.

Sid Sijbrandij

Co-Founder and CEO

GitLabKilo Code

Gitter is exiting GitLab and entering the Matrix…ok, we couldn’t help ourselves with that one. Today we’re joined by Sid Sibrandij (CEO of GitLab) and Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder of Matrix) to discuss the acquisition of Gitter. A little backstory to tee things up…back in 2017 GitLab announced the acquisition of Gitter to help push their idea of chatops within GitLab. As it turns out, the GitLab team saw a different path for Gitter as a core part of Matrix rather than a non-core project at GitLab. We talk through all the details in this episode with Matthew and Sid. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. Pixie – Pixie gives you a magical API to get instant debug data. The best part is this doesn’t involve changing code, there are no manual UIs, and this all lives inside Kubernetes. Pixie lives inside of your platform, harvests all the data that you need, and exposes a bunch of interfaces that you can ping to get the data you need. It’s a programmable edge intelligence platform which captures metrics, traces, logs and events, without any code changes. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring: Matthew Hodgson – GitHub, X Sid Sijbrandij – Website, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Share your feedback on our podcast and Changelog++ experiences. Welcoming Gitter to Matrix! Gitter - Where developers come to talk Element - All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations Matrix - An open network for secure, decentralized communication Gitter is joining the GitLab team (March 15, 2017) The Changelog #384: Enter the Matrix Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sid Sijbrandij

Co-Founder and CEO

GitLabKilo Code

Matthew Hodgson

Technical Co-Founder

Matrix.org

About Bill Staples Bill Staples is New Relic’s chief product officer, responsible for driving the company’s market-leading platform strategy and leading New Relic’s product management, engineering and design functions. Staples is an execution-focused product and engineering leader who loves to build and scale cloud-based businesses. Previously Staples was at Adobe, where he led the 1,500+ employee global engineering team behind Adobe’s market-leading Experience Cloud. Prior to Adobe, Staples spent 17 years at Microsoft, including his last role as vice president of Microsoft’s Application platform. At both Microsoft and Adobe, he successfully led transformative product, culture and technical innovation agendas, helping both companies expand multi-billion dollar cloud portfolios with developers and IT as the customer. Links Referenced Main company site: https://newrelic.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bstaples LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamstaples/

Bill Staples

CEO

GitLabNew Relic

After 5 years at the helm of the CNCF, executive director Dan Kohn is stepping down to launch a new Public Health initiative. The new General Manager of the CNCF is Priyanka Sharma, who joins our show today. Priyanka tells Craig and Adam what to expect, talks about virtual events, and gives some hints on how to rename projects. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Frog Leap Studios Tubthumping (originally by Chumbawamba) Hello (originally by Adele) News of the week Rancher Longhorn is GA Fairwinds Polaris is GA AKS does new networking things Kubecost's cluster-turndown saves you money Solo Developer Portal for Istio CVE-2020-10749: IPv4 only clusters susceptible to MitM attacks via IPv6 rogue router advertisements CVE-2020-8555: Half-Blind SSRF in kube-controller-manager Write-up from "Reeverzax" and "Hach" Ambassador 1.5 released Microk8s for Windows and Mac Finding your GKE logs by Rami Shalom and Charles Baer Business continuity with Anthos CNCF Cloud Engineer Bootcamp CKA program changes Lessons learned by Noah Kantrowitz of Ridecell Links from the interview Lightstep Ben Sigelman Ben Cronin "Spoons" Dapper Monarch OpenTracing Episode 97, with Yuri Shkuro GitLab Sid Sijbrandij CNCF Charter Governing Board members Priyanka joins as GM Dan Kohn Chris Aniszczyk On 4 years at the Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin End User Community Cheryl Hung Episode 35, with Dan Kohn LF Public Health Events: Cloud Native Summit Online KubeCon EU KubeCon Boston CNCF Technical Oversight Committee Charter Members CNCF Projects Other projects: Ollie Priyanka Sharma on Twitter

Priyanka Sharma

Director of Technical Evangelism

GitLabCloud Native Computing FoundationLinux Foundation

We’re talking about all things all-remote with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren is tasked with putting intentional thought and action into place to lead the largest all-remote company in the world. Yes, GitLab is 100% all-remote, as in, no offices…and they employee more than 1,200 people across 67 countries. They’ve been iterating and documenting how to work remotely for years. We cover Darren’s personal story on remote work while he served as managing editor at Engadget, his thoughts on how “work” is evolving and ways to reframe and rethink about when you work, this idea of work life harmony, and the backstory and details of the playbook GitLab released free of charge to the world. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog. Tidelift – If you use open source to develop applications as part of your day job…our friends at Tidelift would like you to share your thoughts in their annual open source survey. Take the survey — it takes around 10 minutes on average. Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring: Darren Murph – X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: GitLab’s Remote Playbook GitLab Values - “No ego” is among the values detailed on this page GitLab’s team handbook Our long-term vision for remote work Family and friends first, work second Encouraging a culture of written communication Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Darren Murph

Head of Remote

GitLab

GitLab is a single application DevOps platform, including source code management and CI/CD tools for targets including Kubernetes. The application itself runs on Kubernetes, including in its largest installation, the SaaS version at gitlab.com. Marin Jankovski is an Engineering Manager at GitLab, where he was Employee #1. He joins Craig and Adam to talk about migrating to Kubernetes, remaining a monolith, and the company value of radical transparency. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Little Free Libraries Original discussion Simon Weckert's Google Maps hack The canonical hand-cart Google responds News of the week CNCF TOC election results HPE acquires Scytale Episode 45, with Andrew Jessup CNCF announces KubeCon EU schedule The actual schedule That discount code again: KCEUGKP15 Run Windows Server Containers on GKE Episode 70, with Patrick Lang New Google Cloud certifications address the cloud skills gap Cisco Hyper-Accelerates Applications in a Hybrid Multicloud Hyper-World Updates to Google's partnership with Cisco AKS 2020-01-27 release AWS Container Security Survey by Michael Hausenblas Infra.app A bit of Istio before tea-time by Alex Ellis Loan a cloud IP to your minikube cluster Building containers without Docker Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul etcd blog on being tested by Jepsen Jepsen blog on testing etcd How Fluentd collects Kubernetes metadata by Brady Zuo Troubleshooting Kubernetes OOM by Carlos Arilla DNS Lookups in Kubernetes by Karan Sharma Community collaboration on Notary v2 by Justin Cormack CNCF Speaker's Bureau: a great resource MayaData raises $26m Episode 56, with Evan Powell Links from the interview Marin Jankovski's README GitLab Product features All remote company Radical transparency Postmortem of 2017 database outage Advantages of a single application Community and Enterprise Editions GitLab Open Source GitLab's unconventional journey to CI/CD and Kubernetes Deployment to Kubernetes added in 2016 GitLab's journey to GCP GitLab Serverless Tanuki logo The old logo was.. "threatening" Crossplane integration with GitLab Marin on GitLab

Marin Jankovski

Engineering Manager

GitLab

Changelog’s resident infrastructure expert Gerhard Lazu is on location at KubeCon 2019. This is part one of a two-part series from the world’s largest open source conference. In this episode you’ll hear from event co-chair Bryan Liles, Priyanka Sharma and Natasha Woods from GitLab, and Alexis Richardson from Weaveworks. Stay tuned for part two’s deep dives in to Prometheus, Grafana, and Crossplane. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: DigitalOcean – The simplest cloud platform for developers and teams Whether you’re running one virtual machine or ten thousand, makes managing your infrastructure too easy. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. GitPrime – GitPrime helps software teams accelerate their velocity and release products faster by turning historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports. Ship faster because you know more. Not because you’re rushing. Learn more at gitprime.com/changelog. Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog Square – The Square developer team just launched their new developer YouTube channel. Head to youtube.com/squaredev or search for “Square Developer” on YouTube to learn more and subscribe. Featuring: Bryan Liles – Website, GitHub, X Priyanka Sharma – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Natasha Woods – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Alexis Richardson – GitHub, X Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: See also: Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2) The GitLab handbook Weaveworks Argo Workflows GitOps.tech Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Bryan Liles

Senior Staff Engineer

VMwareAmazon Web Services

Priyanka Sharma

Director of Technical Evangelism

GitLabCloud Native Computing FoundationLinux Foundation

Natasha Woods

Community Advocate

GitLab

Alexis Richardson

CEO and Co-Founder

Weaveworks

Michael Pryor, Co-Founder & CEO @ Trello, now Head of Trello Product with Atlassian following their recent acquisition. Kolton Andrus is the Founder & CEO @ Gremlin, the failure as a service startup finds weaknesses in your system before they cause problems. Dylan Serota, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer @ Terminal, the startup that helps you create world-class technical teams through remote operations as a service. Rachel Carlson, Co-Founder and CEO @ Guild Education, the leader in education benefits offering the single most scalable solution for preparing the workforce of today for the jobs of tomorrow. Sid Sijbrandi, Founder & CEO @ Gitlab, a single application for the entire software development lifecycle. Jeppe Rindom is the Founder & CEO @ Pleo, the simple spending solution for your company automating expense reports and simplifying company expenses. In Today's Episode We Discuss: How should founders think about the debate between all remote vs part remote teams? How does life and operations change with each? What are the pros and cons? Is it possible to move between the two overtime? What can one do to maintain culture with remote teams? What processes need to be in place to ensure a cohesive and streamlined communication process? What technical architecture needs to be in place? Where are the breakpoints when it comes to communication? How often does one need to do in person off-sites? How does being remote or part remote impact fundraising? How do VCs think about this new structure of operations? What is the right way to present it? How does being outside a core tech hub impact one's ability to raise? How should one run a fundraising process if outside a core hub? How important is it for your team to be near your customers? How does this change according to sector and customer base? How important is it for your team to be near your investors? Does having an exec and sales team in one place and the rest of the team elsewhere work? Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Read the full transcript on our blog.

Michael Pryor

Co-Founder

TrelloAtlassian

Kolton Andrus

Founder & CEO

Gremlin

Dylan Serota

Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

Terminal

Rachel Carlson

Co-Founder and CEO

Guild Education

Sid Sijbrandij

Co-Founder and CEO

GitLabKilo Code

Sid Sijbrandij is the Founder & CEO @ Gitlab, a single application for the entire software development lifecycle. From project planning and source code management to CI/CD, monitoring, and security. To date, Sid has raised over $145m in funding for Gitlab from the likes of GV, August Capital, YC, Khosla and Goldman Sachs just to name a few. What is incredible, Sid has scaled the team to over 762 team members across 55 countries and is famed for his openness and transparency on how he builds both the product and company. You can find the fantastic Gitlab handbook here. In Today's Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Sid made his way into the world of startups, learned Ruby in the early days and came to found Gitlab? What was that a-ha moment? 2.) In 2019 Gitlab is growing from 400 to 1,000 people, what are the biggest challenges that come with such operational growth? How does one hire at such pace and retain quality? How does Sid think about the right way to onboard new employees? How does Sid think about KPI and goal setting in the early days? 3.) Today all 750 Gitlab employees are remote, what does Sid believe is the secret to making remote teams work at scale? How does Sid think about the balance between fast shipping cadence and perfect product releases? Why does Sid believe, "you have to have a low level of shame on the product you release"? 4.) How does Sid think about operating Gitlab as a totally transparent company? What does that mean both in reality and in process? Why does Sid believe it is optimal to have a roadmap that is open for everyone to see? What are the pros? What are the cons of such transparency? How do competitors respond? 5.) If every great business is bundling or unbundling, where does Sid believe he and Sid are in the process today? How does Sid think about being too much to too many people? How does the open-source community really come into play in the development of Gitlab? Items Mentioned In Today's Show: Sid's Fave Book: High Output Management As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Sid on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.

Sid Sijbrandij

Co-Founder and CEO

GitLabKilo Code

We chat with GitLab’s CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij, about the GitLab model, the changes they’ve made since Microsoft purchased GitHub, his thoughts on that acquisition, and his compelling case for 100% remote work.

Sid Sijbrandij

Co-Founder and CEO

GitLabKilo Code

On this week's edition of The Stack Overflow Podcast, we get a visit from Gitlab CEO Sid Sijbrandij. We also chat with UX Research Kristina Lustig about Stack Overflow's mentorship program experiment. As usual, the gang gets into other shenanigans. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sid Sijbrandij

Co-Founder and CEO

GitLabKilo Code

Sid Sijbrandij, CEO of GitLab, joined the show to talk about their recent unveiling of the GitLab Master Plan, $20 Million secured in a Series B funding round, their idea of Conversational Development in this “post Agile world”, and their focus on the enterprise and on-premise Git hosting as the business model to sustain and build GitLab into something ‘modern software teams’ can rely upon.” Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/mo. We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free! Rollbar – Put errors in their place! Full-stack error tracking for all apps in any language. Code School – Learn to program by doing with hands-on courses. Sign up for Code School at only $19/month. That’s $10 off per month! Featuring: Sid Sijbrandij – Website, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: The Changelog #103: GitLab and open source with Sytse Sijbrandij The GitLab Master Plan - YouTube GitLab Live Event Recap | GitLab Applied physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia operable/cog: Bringing the power of the command line to chat Introducing Cog Cog + ChatOps = Continuous DevOps Cycle Analytics (#847) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab Enterprise Edition · GitLab GitLab Team Handbook GitLab Strategy GitLab.com - Marketing Issues GitLab Master Plan on Hacker News (see comments) Include GitLab projects in Changelog Nightly · Issue #21 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sid Sijbrandij

Co-Founder and CEO

GitLabKilo Code

Andrew and Adam talk with Sytse Sijbrandij, one of the Co-founders of GitLab, about building GitLab, sustaining open source, community management, and ways to handle a “road map” for your product or project. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring: Sid Sijbrandij – Website, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: Subscribe to Changelog Weekly GitLab: Self Hosted Git Management Application GitLab 6.0 released! Announcing GitLab 6.0 Enterprise Edition gitlabhq (gitlabhq) sitaramc/gitolite gitlabhq/gitlab-vagrant-vm GitLab.com | Open Source Git Management Software Programming Hero: Yehuda Katz Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sytse Sijbrandij

Co-Founder & CEO

GitLab