I’m amused this is here. This was a random reply to someone who thought maybe we were doing this. To be clear: that’s all this is. But I’m happy to hear all the suggestions.
Too bad, I was really excited about Gitflare :)
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Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
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Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#22I’m amused this is here. This was a random reply to someone who thought maybe we were doing this. To be clear: that’s all this is. But I’m happy to hear all the suggestions.
Too bad, I was really excited about Gitflare :)
We do want to add lots of good developer features to our Workers product so the feedback is great and interesting.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#23Cloudflare folks. Please don’t do this. I don’t know if Mr.Cumming is serious. As a user of CF, I hope you folks go a lot deeper than broader. Example: Better cache management – compete with Fastly, my tickets on load balancer bugs were open for almost 6 months, etc.
Add to that list: hardware-based 2FA. Based on past tweets from jgrahamc, I believe CloudFlare requires all their employees to use hardware U2F tokens for critical things like Google services and has for awhile, yet they still don't support those on their own dashboard.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
What better cache management? What LB features?
A configuration language for cache management (think Varnish VCL). If you can give us cache management for page sections, that'd be wonderful. LB issues – ticket 1612791
You can use Workers to write real code on our edge. VCL is ok but it’s not coding. People are writing real programs on our edge not just configuring it. But you can also use Workers for that.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#25Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#26How about Github without a big corporation? Not controlled by Cloudflare, ddecentralized and uncensorable. Like bittorrent, but for git repos, issues, etc.
Gitlab is a pretty decent Github competitor that certainly isn't a BIG corporation.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
What better cache management? What LB features?
A configuration language for cache management (think Varnish VCL). If you can give us cache management for page sections, that'd be wonderful. LB issues – ticket 1612791
To tag onto what JGC said, you have complete programmatic access to the Cloudflare cache inside a Worker [1] using the Cache API [2]. If there's anything VCL can do which Worker's can't we would love to hear about it. We also support Terraform for all of our APIs if your goal is to have a config language to configure Cloudflare settings.
1- https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/
2- https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-the-workers-cache-ap...
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#28More seriously. I’d be curious to hear about what you’d build on our network. We are all over the world and it would be fun to hear about companies other than GitHub that you think we should disrupt.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#29Cloudflare folks. Please don’t do this. I don’t know if Mr.Cumming is serious. As a user of CF, I hope you folks go a lot deeper than broader. Example: Better cache management – compete with Fastly, my tickets on load balancer bugs were open for almost 6 months, etc.
Another example: unify all the separate "rule" types. There's page rules, firewall rules, IP access rules, user agent rules, etc. It can get unwieldy.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#30How about Github without a big corporation? Not controlled by Cloudflare, ddecentralized and uncensorable. Like bittorrent, but for git repos, issues, etc.
Gitlab is a pretty decent Github competitor that certainly isn't a BIG corporation.
Huh? So we are going to jump on smaller corporations, make them bigger and leave them for a smaller one? I believe the keyword in his idea was decentralized.
Disclaimer: I don't care personally.