Pardon the provocative title! 
My latest newsletter just went out where I talk about the challenges you may face trying to build something in a large organization:
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Nice article 
It kind of sounds like an article you would get your team to readā¦ 
What do you use for version control at Firebase?
Did they reinvent the wheel or just fork Git?
Does Firebase utilize Golang?
Are you going to do a āsecrets of Firebaseā episode?
Even better! We use Github for large parts of it! 
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Great article.
(just a quick sidenote: I read it in the email and I wanted to give you the āgreatā feedback. I did find it but the āreplyā options where very discreet - specially in this rushy days:
ādo send me a tweet or post on the forums to let me know!ā
I think they deserve a button : )
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That is great feedback! Iāll see if Substack will allow me to do that next time! 
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I think you covered this all pretty well; I enjoyed reading it.
Iām sort of envisioning someone saying āI want to write my code (step A) and run it (step B)ā, but there are lots of intermediate steps you might not imagine, so it ends up being that a bunch of letters are inserted in the middle (systems, processes, libraries, etc. like you mentioned), so itās really step A ā¦ step Z.
One of the funniest examples from an old job is that there was (intentionally) no network connection between my office and the place where I wanted to run some code, so the most expedient solution was to burn new commits to a DVD and carry it to a different floor with the relevant computer(s).
Maybe part of the art of it is that for any given task, thereās some flexibility about which of the alphabet of steps youāre considering actually matters, and maybe it turns out that instead of a Boolean āyesā this is required or not, itās a floating-point scale of importance, and oh, actually some of the steps are not strictly ordered, so D can happen before B, etc.
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I ran in to a bit of a relevant situation recently. I was applying for jobs and found that many contractors for the government need to publish for the browser only, because installing any new software is considered out of bounds, as you call it.
Because of this, many of them have legacy flash content they need ported. Believe it or not the flash background actually got me a job offer as a unity developer 
I ended up going with a different job though (unity dev non flash) even I didnāt want to bust out the old flash drives lol
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Also mildly relevant, Iāve been given my choice of version control (fairly small company).
Obviously GitHub is safe-ish, though has had breaches apparently, but this combined with unity usually managing large files, its not ideal for me. Yes git LFS is used but i already hit my limit and need to buy storageā¦which they will but, Iām thinking merge over to Gitea. Iāve used it locally in the past, its a clone of the old github layout. Full control, and no storage limits. I actually prefer it.
What i have not done is hosted it remotely in probably a docker containerā¦I had it setup locally on a drive, and that drive backed up automatically to a serverā¦weird perhaps, but so am i i guess.
or maybe i just pay GitHub for more storage and donāt bother since its not my money anyway and Iām just complicating things for myself.
edit: relevancy to the post is me potentially hosting private client data on github, which doesnāt sit well w me
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Have you considered GitLab? A lot of large companies use them. I havenāt done a deep look into why GitLab is used, especially in enterprises, but that maybe something to consider if you havenāt already explored it 
I have not, but i see the free tier is 5GB so i will give it a trial run thanks!
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I had a play with Bitbucket a while ago. It seemed alrightā¦
Iām super surprised that Google hasnāt got its own version controlā¦
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Cloud Source Repositories is free for up to 50 GB of storage per month.
Well then. I will be giving this a go tomorrow
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