A webhook is not a data source
Workbench brings GitLab changes into an open browser in under five seconds. The webhook accelerates the route, while truth stays in GitLab and the local projection stays disposable.
· 12 min
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Boards: a kanban that doesn't know where its cards are
Every board eventually fails the same way – it remembers which column a card is in, and from then on that memory has to be maintained. Workbench never records it: columns are rules, evaluated on read.
· 10 min
Workbench: a delivery index that is allowed to be wrong
We built a multi-tenant view across several GitLab instances without becoming a second source of truth. The design rule that made it work: the local database is disposable, and reconciliation – not webhooks – is what makes it correct.
· 6 min