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GraphCDN is now Stellate and raised $30M

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Re: GraphCDN is now Stellate and raised $30M

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what makes GraphCDN a “killer product”? it’s just a proprietary caching proxy “impressive business” is entirely subjective

"it's just" This is seriously in every founders history / bio :) Dropbox / iphone etc etc. More seriously, the play into the "global data graph" is going to be potentially somewhat appealing.

what is a “global data graph” and why do i need it?

Dropbox and iPhone are consumer products, so the comparison is not even close

Re: GraphCDN is now Stellate and raised $30M

#32

Seems like a good product, but also seems easy to replicate if it gets serious traction.

The "global data graph" is probably going to have network effects if they succeed. This is what makes otherwise less than great experiences (facebook et al) so sticky. So the question of the technical ability to replicate a service is not always the critical factor.

I meant the cache specifically

Re: GraphCDN is now Stellate and raised $30M

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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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Could you please stop posting like this? It's fine to make your point once but this sort of unsubstantive harangue doesn't add anything interesting, and it's nasty.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: GraphCDN is now Stellate and raised $30M

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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

A worker can't cache or rate limit itself, it runs before cache [1] so every invocation of the url counts as a credit (free tier allows 1000 runs per minute / 100,000 per day / 3,000,000 per month)

Stellate always free tier can front run your free graphql worker with 100,000,000 extra CDN hits - a possible saving of $50/month if just on paid workers. What's the catch? attribution?

[1]: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/how-to-cache-a-page-serve...

Re: GraphCDN is now Stellate and raised $30M

#36
post #9

Earlier 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"?

The question about how many people have the problem isn’t the same question as asking how many people you’ve managed to sign up, can you be clearer about what your number is referring to?

I’ve signed up for many more services than I actually need/use, and even amongst ones I use, there are certainly some solving problems I don’t really have.

Re: GraphCDN is now Stellate and raised $30M

#37
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"it's just" This is seriously in every founders history / bio :) Dropbox / iphone etc etc. More seriously, the play into the "global data graph" is going to be potentially somewhat appealing.

what is a “global data graph” and why do i need it? Dropbox and iPhone are consumer products, so the comparison is not even close

The example they give is basically Zapier for data?

"For example, you might want to figure out if the customer who just submitted a ticket is a high-value customer by checking the matching subscription in Stripe's data and whether there are any associated high-value deals with that customer's company in Salesforce."

No guarantees on traction, but folks doing integration work have gotten a fair bit of use. So as always - this might fail.

Re: GraphCDN is now Stellate and raised $30M

#38
Trying to make a global data graph seems to be an appealing problem to try and solve, but anecdotally seems to just result in an eventual acquihire rather than a successful product (even if they do have cool tech).

From the press release and supporting document, I’m not really understanding what this is all about, and why one should be excited about this pivot. What does the world look like with a successful version of this?

If I’m building a product that consumes multiple third-party APIs at various points in its lifecycle, I’m not seeing a compelling value in talking to one huge borg graph rather than surgically accessing specific APIs, other than maybe only having to manage one API key.

Can someone paint a cleaner picture for me of why this matters?

Re: GraphCDN is now Stellate and raised $30M

#39
Congrats on the announcement, and name change.

Considering the shift over the last decade to microservice APIs (including GraphQL here), we're now seeing a shift in lots of companies moving to become the gateway/orchestration layer. So it makes sense you guys move into this space. You've already caching, analytics, monitoring, etc. Now these services exist for all subgraphs!

I wish you guys the best of luck! As said in another comment, stellar team to make it happen.

PS. What would be interesting to see is some kind of "control plane" movement with Stellate. Give me a binary I can run that you generate based on all of my config.

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