461–470 of 601 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure how decentralization helps though. People in a bazzar are going to care even less about sharing shadow knowledge. Linux IMO succeeds not because of the bazaar but because of Linus.
What is the shadow knowledge in this case?
It still surprises me that there are basically no free alternatives comparable to Cloudflare. Putting everything on CF creates a pretty serious single point of failure.
It's strange that in most industries you have at least two major players, like Coke vs. Pepsi or Nike vs. Adidas. But in the CDN/edge space, there doesn't seem to be a real free competitor that matches Cloudflare's feature set.
It feels very unhealthy for the ecosystem. Does anyone know why this is the case?
This is architectural problem, the LUA bug, the longer global outage last week, a long list of earlier such outages only uncover the problem with architecture underneath. The original, distributed, decentralized web architecture with heterogeneous endpoints managed by myriad of organisations is much more resistant to this kind of global outages. Homogeneous systems like Cloudflare will continue to cause global outage…
I’m not sure I share this sentiment. First, let’s set aside the separate question of whether monopolies are bad. They are not good but that’s not the issue here. As to architecture: Cloudflare has had some outages recently. However, what’s their uptime over the longer term? If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so. But there’s a more interesting argume…
I’m tired of this sentiment. Imagine if people said, why develop your own cloud offering? Can you really do better than VMWare..?
Innovation in technology has only happened because people dared to do better, rather than giving up before they started…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope he doesn't ignore it, the internet has been forgiving enough toward cloudflares string of failures..its getting pretty old, and creates a ton of choas. I work with life saving devices, being impacted in any way in data monitoring has a huge impact in many ways. "sorry ma'am we can't give your child t1d readings on your follow app because our provider decided to break everything in the pursuit of some react bug…
Half your medical devices are probably opening up data leakage to China. https://www.csoonline.com/article/3814810/backdoor-in-chines... Most hospital and healthcare IT teams are extremely under funded, undertrained, overworked, and the software, configurations and platforms are normally not the most resilient things. I have a friend at one in the North East right now going through a hell of a security breach for mul…
https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-into-cloudflares-sept-...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not sure I share this sentiment. First, let’s set aside the separate question of whether monopolies are bad. They are not good but that’s not the issue here. As to architecture: Cloudflare has had some outages recently. However, what’s their uptime over the longer term? If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so. But there’s a more interesting argume…
> If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so. I disagree; most people need only a subset of Cloudflare's features. Operating just that subset avoids the risk of the other moving parts (that you don't need anyway) ruining your day. Cloudflare is also a business and has its own priorities like releasing new features; this is detrimental to you because you…
.... And thanks to AI everyone needs that all the time now since putting a site on the Internet means an eternal DDoS attack.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does relying on larger players result in better overall uptime for smaller players? AWS is providing me better uptime than if I assembled something myself because I am less resourced and less talented than that massive team. If so, is it a good or bad trade to have more overall uptime but when things go down it all goes down together?
> AWS is providing me better uptime than if I assembled something myself because I am less resourced and less talented than that massive team. Is it? I can’t say that my personal server has been (unplanned) down at any time in the past 10 years, and these global outages have just flown right past it.
This is architectural problem, the LUA bug, the longer global outage last week, a long list of earlier such outages only uncover the problem with architecture underneath. The original, distributed, decentralized web architecture with heterogeneous endpoints managed by myriad of organisations is much more resistant to this kind of global outages. Homogeneous systems like Cloudflare will continue to cause global outage…
I’m not sure I share this sentiment. First, let’s set aside the separate question of whether monopolies are bad. They are not good but that’s not the issue here. As to architecture: Cloudflare has had some outages recently. However, what’s their uptime over the longer term? If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so. But there’s a more interesting argume…
If I'm remembering correctly, there was another outage around 10 days ago. It still surprises me that there are basically no free alternatives comparable to Cloudflare. Putting everything on CF creates a pretty serious single point of failure. It's strange that in most industries you have at least two major players, like Coke vs. Pepsi or Nike vs. Adidas. But in the CDN/edge space, there doesn't seem to be a real fre…
This is architectural problem, the LUA bug, the longer global outage last week, a long list of earlier such outages only uncover the problem with architecture underneath. The original, distributed, decentralized web architecture with heterogeneous endpoints managed by myriad of organisations is much more resistant to this kind of global outages. Homogeneous systems like Cloudflare will continue to cause global outage…
I’m not sure I share this sentiment. First, let’s set aside the separate question of whether monopolies are bad. They are not good but that’s not the issue here. As to architecture: Cloudflare has had some outages recently. However, what’s their uptime over the longer term? If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so. But there’s a more interesting argume…
The problem with pursuing efficiency as the primary value prop is that you will necessarily end up with a brittle result.