Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla • Hacker News Board

Re: Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla

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Post by dblohm7 » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 6:25 PM UTC

ChrisSD wrote: post #106

glandium wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except for the part about Firefox not making any money. Firefox is making most of the money.

It gets a fixed amount of money from Google for using them as the default search engine. But what I meant was Firefox has no means to actual generate an income in its own right. Mozilla have tried. The reactions have not been good. The money from Google is practically a donation at this point. It's not exactly an altruistic one but it's not exactly a pure business transaction either given Firefox's current market sha…

> It gets a fixed amount of money from Google for using them as the default search engine

Your first bad assumption is that the amount of money is fixed.

Re: Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla

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Post by anhldbk » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 11:53 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #3

My money was on Cloudflare to have hired them wholesale. Regardless, congratulations to everyone involved! This deal has got me thinking... whether a right way to "lay-off" a supremely talented bunch is to actually see if other companies are willing to offer them jobs? Kind of how player transfers happen in Football (soccer). Either the team goes to the newer company wholesale or you help find your engineers suitable…

> One might argue there's no advantage to the company laying-off people, but they could save on the severance package, and frankly, two companies entering an understanding like this bodes well on other levels where someone could probably explore a "cross-company" job change with blessings of the employers on both sides of the table.

I really like your idea. It should be one of management ethics: caring for staffs even if you have to say goodbye.

Re: Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla

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Post by simlevesque » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 3:57 PM UTC

jtdev wrote: post #142

simlevesque wrote: post #14

Fastly have a great product. I've always liked their support too: when you need to have access to low level APIs like pure VCL you juste have to ask and they provide it, it is deeply powerful. I think they can make a great impact with these hires.

What is “pure VCL”?

You don't configure the proxy's middleware, you code and modify their proxy's middleware in Varnish, the language they are written in.