My previous comment was a bit harsh. I didn’t Have coffee I apologize.
I still think that 30M is a bit too much for a problem that is already solved.
We will see what they are able to do with the funding.
Good luck to the team
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#12The media keeps spinning the world is about to end and it is impossible to raise fund. And yet here we are. $30M
Worth noting that a lot of fundraising announcements are made a while after the fundraising actually closes. Companies often time the announcement to also include other significant news/product updates, in this case a name change. It's very possible the round closed a few months back
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#13I kinda thought Apollo would buy GraphCDN. Both great products!
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#14I kinda thought Apollo would buy GraphCDN. Both great products!
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#15My previous comment was a bit harsh. I didn’t Have coffee I apologize. I still think that 30M is a bit too much for a problem that is already solved. We will see what they are able to do with the funding. Good luck to the team
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our GraphQL Edge Cache is based on Fastly's infrastructure, so we do use Varnish under the hood for the cache storage. In order to properly support GraphQL at the caching layer you have to understand GraphQL so you can do fine-grained invalidation.[0] Essentially, our GraphQL Edge Cache is similar to a GraphQL client. It looks at the request body with the query & the response with the typenames and tags the cached qu…
how many businesses are having the problem you’re solving? is this number greater than 10? aren’t you scared Fastly and Cloudflare will just clone your moat once they see some demand for a service like yours?
Akamai already solved this https://developer.akamai.com/blog/2019/06/18/announcing-grap...
But looks like they will build more out of the box integrations.
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#17Stellar team! Congrats Tim and Max!
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our GraphQL Edge Cache is based on Fastly's infrastructure, so we do use Varnish under the hood for the cache storage. In order to properly support GraphQL at the caching layer you have to understand GraphQL so you can do fine-grained invalidation.[0] Essentially, our GraphQL Edge Cache is similar to a GraphQL client. It looks at the request body with the query & the response with the typenames and tags the cached qu…
how many businesses are having the problem you’re solving? is this number greater than 10? aren’t you scared Fastly and Cloudflare will just clone your moat once they see some demand for a service like yours?
The number is actually greater than 1,000 right now.
No, we're not scared of Fastly or Cloudflare and are actually cooperating with them.
What makes you think that "they will just clone the moat"?
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#19My previous comment was a bit harsh. I didn’t Have coffee I apologize. I still think that 30M is a bit too much for a problem that is already solved. We will see what they are able to do with the funding. Good luck to the team
This dismissive take is the biggest bull case for me.
GraphCDN is a killer product with an impressive business and a sharp team. Excited to see what's next for them.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
how many businesses are having the problem you’re solving? is this number greater than 10? aren’t you scared Fastly and Cloudflare will just clone your moat once they see some demand for a service like yours?
The number is actually greater than 1,000 right now. No, we're not scared of Fastly or Cloudflare and are actually cooperating with them. What makes you think that "they will just clone the moat"?
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