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elithrar

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About elithrar

Product lead in the cloud space. Background in telecoms/radio/SCADA/control systems. Know some things about air-cooled 911s.

Contact me: matt /at/ eatsleeprepeat.net • https://github.com/elithrar • https://www.twitter.com/elithrar

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    IPs as identifiers aren’t great: in a world of both CGNAT (more shared IPs) and a ton of sketchy residential proxies, they’ve become poor proxies for identity of a “thing”.

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    Comment #41616572

    There's ~four of us trying to reproduce this right now, using Astro and Remix, and cannot at all. An important note: React-based frameworks tend to use camelCase attributes vs. hyp…

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    Comment #40534285

    Can you share the ticket ID here and/or email me the details? silverlock@cloudflare

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    Comment #40534222

    This should not be the normal experience. Want to drop me an email - silverlock@cloudflare - and I will have the team look into it ASAP. (I lead our storage & DB product teams here…

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    Comment #39980537

    > The fact that D1 still doesn't support replication is an indication to me that it has been deprioritized, likely with other newer and less used products, while the infrastructure…

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    Comment #39979168

    > What a nightmare! Now your application code spills into your database and our initial goal of simplifying application development is nothing but a long-forgotten dream. All of th…

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    Comment #39778483

    (I work at CF) The dashboard team had a bug that caused too-large cookies to be returned to some users. They’ve rolled out a fix but you can also clear cookies to remedy.

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    Comment #39777910

    Unrelated - that’s a planned infra maintenance event.

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    Comment #38101823

    Our public postmortem on the incident: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-incident-on-october-3...

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    Comment #38076528

    See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38075877 (We’ll share more when we can)

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    Comment #38075877

    This should be resolved. We’re still investigating the underlying root cause, and intend to share a write-up once we have that in hand. This is not the way we wanted anyone to star…

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    Comment #38075836

    Not related. (I am the PM lead for Workers databases & storage)

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    Comment #36767967

    > due to the writers literally having disdain for the actual source material and we're just using the how's setting as a backdrop to push their own entirely disconnected stories. I…

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    Comment #36708488

    (I lead DO & databases product here at Cloudflare) Thanks for the kind words! Durable Objects also underpins a tremendous amount of what we build internally as well — it’s fundamen…

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    Comment #36216883

    > do you think you will have any API driven access to the data held in these services? IE, I don't per se want to have to use a worker to arbitrage between the Cloudflare platform …

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    Comment #36003438

    Correct. DuckDB is really interesting technology, but it's not a direct successor to SQLite for transactional workloads. It's also very new: there's a LOT of new code in DuckDB on …

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    Comment #36003161

    Fixing this. We ran a few benchmarks (and some were much faster than 37x), but this was a more typical case. Not our goal to inflate numbers.

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    Comment #34643181

    > The problem with MQTT is that most of the use cases I’m interested in involve a web browser as at least one party of the connection, and the browser doesn’t support MQTT. I could…

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    Comment #33895510

    I would strongly recommend against using IP ACLs to "... verify the source IP of the request to prevent acknowledging webhooks from unknown and potentially malicious servers." You …

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    Comment #32991972

    That’s not the case — note that we don’t say “trusted network” in the blog. That’s definitely not the right solution. There’s two key parts: 1) we can filter and secure traffic _le…

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    Comment #32928048

    From the blog: > ... we know that data locality is important for a good deal of compliance use cases. Jurisdictional restrictions will allow developers to set a jurisdiction like t…

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    Comment #32796234

    > In my case, despite living near Detroit and CF's datacenter there, I'm routed through Chicago, adding 40ms to any roundtrip time. This shouldn’t be the case: want to email me (si…