July 31, 2021
Faster workspace startup times
A key metric we deeply care about at Gitpod (and I’m sure you do, too) is workspace startup time. In a world where you create and dispose of workspaces many times per day, the last thing you want is waiting for a workspace to start 🐌.
In this release, we made significant progress in lowering startup times 🏎. What initially may sound like complex changes turned out to be a +4 -4 pull request (#4847). Yay simplicity!
To give you an idea of the magnitute of improvement we’re talking about, here’s a before / after comparison with 30 workspaces started twice:
| Before | Now |
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Did you pay close attention to the y-axis? From between 20 to 60 seconds down to 5 to 20 seconds!
Great work team, let’s shift our focus to other features. These improvements are certainly worth celebrating 🎂, but we’re hungry to drop these times by at least the same magnitude once or twice more! Team, finish your cake and get back to work 😉.
Please do let us know if you notice any differences with your project startup times. You can find us at www.gitpod.io/chat.
Fixes and improvements
- #4844 - Provide better feedback when gitpod.yml is invalid
- #4816 - [gp] env: handle multi-word values without quotes
- #4813 - [server] Handle releases/tag/
in GitHub context parser - #4743 - [code] confirm sharing
- #4738 - [code] serve each webview from own origin
- #4734 - [#4699] Handle error situations around /headless-logs endpoint
- #4115 - [server] store separate email used for commits (GitHub and GitLab). Thanks to @philschatz.
Gitpod Self-Hosted
We released 0.10.0 and updated the documentation to match. Head over to https://www.gitpod.io/docs/self-hosted/latest to get started.
