gsutil

Thanks for sharing. The gcloud cli archives are 1200-2000 MB when installed. This ends up having a huge impact on your bill and launch times. gcloud cli is a hard dependency for doing work in gcp. It’s used for running db queries, managing instances, managing files. This is one example of many where the cli install takes 10 minutes to un-archive and setup before use on a fresh instance https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil/issues/1732

> For Github, are you sure it's even a frontend thing? Well where do we draw the line here? I'm not even talking about diffs etc.: Just browsing through a repo and looking at single files is noticeable slow. As an end user I don't really care if it's the network request latency or because inefficient DOM rendering, it's not a great UX. For example loading this site here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil/blob/master/te... took 1.26 seconds. And it's like that for any file or folder. Gitlab seems to have a similar initial load time however only once, after that it's faster.