When frustrated by lack of adoption within NASA of modern application development tooling, Marshall’s team of 4 set out to build a from-scratch, cloud-native PaaS specifically tuned to meet complex operational and regulatory requirements at NASA. In Sept 2018, their grant proposal was accepted to begin work on APPDAT, our platform based on GKE + GitLab. With GitLab’s extended EE trial period during their prototype phase, Marshall’s team demonstrated enormous value very quickly. …