Why are companies slapping "OS" in their product naming? it's stupid
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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
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#102Probably better if they make it obvious that you need Workers paid plan: "Your Cloudflare account is on the Free plan, but the Cloudflare OS backend needs Dynamic Workers, which requires the Workers Paid plan."
This is just if you don't want to host it yourself, no?
Far as I can tell, even if you host it yourself you are still bound to their workers.
Re: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
#103I liked Kenton's take on this: https://x.com/KentonVarda/status/2084990137180590572?s=20 Text from tweet: Today we are releasing Cloudflare OS, a chatbot with connectors, just like every other tech company is doing. Except actually, it's different. This is a remake of Sandstorm[.]io, my startup from 10 years ago, except this time built on Cloudflare Workers (the platform I've spent the last 9 years building) and deep…
This is really interesting. I built a similar product (not released yet), but it uses Kubernetes as the infrastructure layer instead of Cloudflare OS. I guess all these years later I am left with the same existential question that plagued Sandstorm. What is its relevance in the context of Linux containers? This is not a rhetorical question, is there a real benefit for a Sandstorm grain over a docker style Linux conta…
Linux namespaces, and containers, are not security features in themselves. They end up having to be combined with SECCOMP and some sort of application kernel or SELinux in order to have an effective security apparatus. This is before you give it application aware security controls like policy.
Re: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
#104Why are companies slapping "OS" in their product naming? it's stupid
Andy Jassy et al didn't quite name it that, but AWS was being thought of internally as "Internet OS".
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#105Everytime I read about new things from Cloudflare they look really cool but I cannot shake the feeling of not wanting to use them for fear of lock-in, am I too paranoid?
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is 100% open source and self-hostable. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os It runs on top of our open source runtime. https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd
Does workerd have full feature-parity with Workers, including stuff like Durable Objects?
It's the same code. The only thing it doesn't include is the global scheduling and orchestration, but you don't actually want that locally. (And honestly... that stuff is a bit of a beast.)
Durable Objects are fully supported by workerd (and Cloudflare OS uses them extensively).
There is, however, one catch currently: Durable Objects don't scale out well without the global scheduling. For running Cloudflare OS for one user, this is actually no big deal, but a company-wide instance might not work well.
But I'm actually fixing that:
https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/pull/6780
Unfortunately didn't get enough time to land it before this release, but it'll come soon.
With that I would expect a self-hosted Cloudflare OS on your own cluster to work quite well.
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#108How do you install this? Where's the download link.
Re: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
#109I liked Kenton's take on this: https://x.com/KentonVarda/status/2084990137180590572?s=20 Text from tweet: Today we are releasing Cloudflare OS, a chatbot with connectors, just like every other tech company is doing. Except actually, it's different. This is a remake of Sandstorm[.]io, my startup from 10 years ago, except this time built on Cloudflare Workers (the platform I've spent the last 9 years building) and deep…
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#110Im having a hard time figuring out what the intended user interface is here. The screenshots im seeing makes this look to be an electron app, but the repo seems to be implying that this is a deployed web app.
If this is just another librechat I'll be disappointed, and frustrated- because this is so 5 months ago.