had no idea anycast at cloudflare traced back to him. does part 2 get into what happened after
A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)
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#12What is with the bold sections? Is this just AI or are you trying to make sure I didn’t fall asleep reading the bland plaintext?
Stylistic choice / tradition; it's a (machine?) translated version of a Japanese text.
American comics have bolded words too.
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#13Repeating myself here but anyone who has not yet watched the whole 2024 series of Prof. Sapolsky "Human Behavioural Biology" lectures series... really should. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZI2GQlNdJA RIP Lee Holloway
> RIP Lee Holloway
Did I miss something about Lee Holloway?
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#16seconding the wired piece — worth noting he's not dead, that's the awful part. FTD, in a care facility, personality gone years before the body.
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#18seconding the wired piece — worth noting he's not dead, that's the awful part. FTD, in a care facility, personality gone years before the body.
Frontotemporal dementia
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#19had no idea anycast at cloudflare traced back to him. does part 2 get into what happened after
Anycast is hardly unique to Cloudflare. It's been around since the late 80s (before BGP), and has been used commercially for much longer than Cloudflare has existed. In fact, the root nameservers have done anycast for about 25 years or so and they're much more critical infrastructure.
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#20Good, if brief, intro, however right at the outset this tripped me up-
"Cloudflare's rapid growth as a cloud service is due in part to its many unique technologies. Technologies like Anycast and same-IP access are just a few examples"
Anycast has been around and in use since 1989 (finally becoming an RFC in 1993), and was widely used long before Cloudflare. On the CDN side some alternatives did it differently -- Akamai used DNS mapping, for instance, which has detriments and benefits -- but many large enterprises and services used Anycast long before.
Just not sure why they call that a "unique technology", and to a casual reader it implies invention.
Not sure what "same-IP access" is, though maybe they're just describing Anycast?
Cloudflare's rapid growth as a cloud service was overwhelmingly a business model thing, as is usually the case. Everyone could put it in front of their site for free, in the vast majority of cases, completely obliterated overpriced and overwrought competitors like Akamai. Technical excellence came later, but if they pursued a traditional business model in the space they would have been just another CDN.