Seattle replaced all streetlights with LEDs a few years back. It too bad that they are the blue lighting that the article mentions, which absolutely makes viewing anything in the sky a lot harder than it already was. I'd love to go back to Flagstaff some day to see the lighting in person.
Tangential: Reading this _really_ makes me appreciate the extremely stable system my team has build internally with GitLab and TeamCity. Azure DevOps sounds extremely frustrating (besides the point that I cannot stand the name they gave this product, and GitLab made that same mistake with the Auto DevOps feature name).
BTW We're planning to add per per minute for the CI runners and add shared MacOS and Windows runners so people that don't want to manage their own no longer need to.
That's awesome. We have so much customization around TeamCity that moving away from it doesn't make sense, but we're starting to look at the CI runners for other things, along with the k8s integration, all great stuff in GitLab. Yeah, the DevOps name though, it's unfortunate. DevOps is a culture, not a thing, product, tool, or process. Seems more like calling it Auto CI/CD is more appropriate, maybe? Anyways, thanks for the response!
On-premise runs pretty much maintenance free. I've be running GitLab for ~5 years on-premise with ~200 developers. The issues have all been minimal, and few, over those years.
Upgrading is super easy these days when you go with their omnibus installer. That handles all of the upgrade tasks for you, even skipping over versions which was not really possible with the source install days of old.
