So this looks like signs that after getting a boat load of money from their VCs, promising to be a "better github", the VCs have realized that they have been played. So it looks like the gitlab team has been asked to pursue other avenues to widen their horizons and get some returns for the VC investments. So they go from "we will be better github" to "we will be better heroku".
How will they do that? "Productized apps for hyperscale cloud". What does that mean? It's a bunch of buzz words our marketing and sales team invented.
I dont think you should. Being the CEO of the company which published this blog, the last thing you should do is ignore a genuine review of what quality that blog post is.
I have been following these gitlab promotion threads here at HN and I dont usually comment, but I had to create this account after reading this post. It looks really bad and incompetent when a CEO of the company makes a statement like this. Have you ever used Heroku? On what basis are you allowing people to bash that product on your website? Do you consider Heroku your competitor? On what technical abilities of Gitlab do you think you have reached a place where you consider them your competitor? Some random meaningless doc someone put together to show how you will do better?
How will they do that? "Productized apps for hyperscale cloud". What does that mean? It's a bunch of buzz words our marketing and sales team invented.