by Michael Brown | Oct 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Calibrate Your Expectations for the Jira Importer Before You Migrate to GitLab Most migration plans oversimplify importing Jira issues into GitLab. There is a Jira Importer, but it’s not as simple as it seems. The importer works but is more limited than most teams...
by Michael Brown | Oct 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
Decide What GitLab Is Not Replacing Before You Migrate from Atlassian One of the best reasons to move from Atlassian to GitLab is consolidation. Code, planning, CI/CD, and security in one platform means fewer licenses, fewer integrations to maintain, and fewer places...
by Michael Brown | Oct 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
Build a Real Inventory Before You Scope Your Atlassian to GitLab Migration Most engineering leaders know how many repos are in their Atlassian footprint, but not a lot else. While that’s a reasonable place to start, it’s also the easiest part of the migration. What...
by Michael Brown | Sep 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Why Your GitLab Pipelines Are Slow and What It’s Costing You Slow pipelines get treated as a nuisance, but they are really a line item. Every wasted minute burns compute and developer attention at the same time, which stacks up costs quickly. Where the time...
by Michael Brown | Aug 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
Who Owns Your Uptime? GitLab.com vs. Self-Managed Availability gets discussed as if it were a property of the vendor. It’s usually a question of who holds the levers when something breaks, and the answer changes completely depending on how you deploy GitLab. On...
