OAuth for all
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OAuth for all
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#2Title: Unlocking the Cloudflare app ecosystem with OAuth for all
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#3Cloudflare turning into a Cloud platform is undoing what it was really doing well: making small clouds and diy hosting manageable in the hostile web environment.
Once their revenue from Cloud services overtakes their core offering, bye bye Cloudflare free and so on.
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#4Not sure whats the play here, there is no world where this can turn out good. Cloudflare is more or less infrastructure provider, this idea of some user delegating permissions to their account to some third party client for infrastructure is ripe for abuses. If companies like AWS are not doing it then its for a good reason.
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#5Not sure whats the play here, there is no world where this can turn out good. Cloudflare is more or less infrastructure provider, this idea of some user delegating permissions to their account to some third party client for infrastructure is ripe for abuses. If companies like AWS are not doing it then its for a good reason.
How different is this to, eg, the Google developer program, in which I can create a new OAuth client for Google users?
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#6Not sure whats the play here, there is no world where this can turn out good. Cloudflare is more or less infrastructure provider, this idea of some user delegating permissions to their account to some third party client for infrastructure is ripe for abuses. If companies like AWS are not doing it then its for a good reason.
Do you understand what OAuth is? It’s like an API key but less likely to be abused. This is a good thing. It helps security in many ways and makes security flows more safe than carrying around a token.
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#7Cloudflare turning into a Cloud platform is undoing what it was really doing well: making small clouds and diy hosting manageable in the hostile web environment. Once their revenue from Cloud services overtakes their core offering, bye bye Cloudflare free and so on.
I doubt it. It’s cheap to run and a good funnel
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#8This is such a weird blog post.
It's full of technical details, but I'm really not sure who they're for. There's nothing particularly novel or impressive. If anything the fact that it took them this long should be embarrassing. They pad it out with a table of stats that are just kind of meh? Congrats I guess for releasing something without burning the house down?
As an on-and-off customer of theirs I tried to quickly skim for some of the details that would impact me, the theoretical end-user, but the vast majority of TFA is just about how they pulled off this apparent feat of engineering.
I'm not trying to be pessimistic, and I don't fault the author (but I question the culture). I honestly don't get who this is for.
For the record this is something they should have had... at least six or seven years ago?
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#9This is such a weird blog post. It's full of technical details, but I'm really not sure who they're for. There's nothing particularly novel or impressive. If anything the fact that it took them this long should be embarrassing. They pad it out with a table of stats that are just kind of meh? Congrats I guess for releasing something without burning the house down? As an on-and-off customer of theirs I tried to quickly…
I for one appreciate them sharing this and found it a very interesting read. Many of us don't have experiences at companies at this scale and so it's nice whenever I get to read about what happens behind the scene.
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#10I hope Cloudflare does not turn into Google, with so many different things that they will eventually kill all of these services randomly because of the maintenance cost.