Ouch. Big egos in tech are a cliche to be dispelled whenever possible by contrary example setting and not taking oneself too seriously. I turned down a ~ £ 2.5 million exit to avoid being golden handcuffed to an absolute dick co-founder for 3 years. Sometimes, your sanity is worth more than any amount of superficial or external stuff.
Genuinely cool, reliable peeps with a sense of humor are the best peeps to work with.
I don’t disagree. All I can say is that Cloudflare alumni and employees have some of the worst people I’ve come across in the industry. Toxic, rude, egotistical, and weirdly elitist for no reason.
I don’t know why or what it is, but that’s just been my experience…so I don’t have the best depiction of the company overall
When they started, I understood them as a CDN - storing copies of your static(ish) bytes on lots of servers distributed globally.
Happens to be that a globally distributed network of endpoints is also pretty great for absorbing DDOS attacks, so they started offering that too. And then I guess they parlayed that further into offering other T1/T2 level Internet services too.
I don't use them for CDN / DDOS but I do use them for other things and I think they're great.
Also check out fastly which was/is Varnish-based and built by ex Wikia peeps.
If you have enough budget, engineering talent, or customers & ARPU, you can build your own AnyCast CDN, DDoS defenses, app caching, and app firewall. Until you have very high bills with SaaS third-party vendors, that's the time to think about migrating to DIY, but otherwise stick with division of labor and specialization of trade for things that aren't your core business.
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Genuinely cool, reliable peeps with a sense of humor are the best peeps to work with.
I don’t know why or what it is, but that’s just been my experience…so I don’t have the best depiction of the company overall
Happens to be that a globally distributed network of endpoints is also pretty great for absorbing DDOS attacks, so they started offering that too. And then I guess they parlayed that further into offering other T1/T2 level Internet services too.
I don't use them for CDN / DDOS but I do use them for other things and I think they're great.
Also check out fastly which was/is Varnish-based and built by ex Wikia peeps.
If you have enough budget, engineering talent, or customers & ARPU, you can build your own AnyCast CDN, DDoS defenses, app caching, and app firewall. Until you have very high bills with SaaS third-party vendors, that's the time to think about migrating to DIY, but otherwise stick with division of labor and specialization of trade for things that aren't your core business.