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Re:Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $... by mwfj on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:12PM (#14650025)
Hi Zack,

This headline made me think that Cloudflare had finally done what I first assumed Akamai did back in the noughties, before I learned they didn't really have magic tech. :/

Anyway: here's some indirect feedback. It doesn't really apply to your project (which I'm sure will be super useful to other people). I would expect Cloudflare to take the lead in... let's call it widely-distributed-computation. All I want is my code running on your nodes all around the world with an end-to-end ping that is less than 10 ms to the average client.

Re:Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $... by kentonv on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:31PM (#14650144)
> All I want is my code running on your nodes all around the world

Cloudflare will need to hire a sandboxing expert for that.

Wait...

Re:Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $... by jgrahamc on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:17PM (#14650059)
All I want is my code running on your nodes all around the world with an end-to-end ping that is less than 10 ms to the average client.

Interesting idea. jgc AT cloudflare to tell me more.

Re:Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $... by dsl on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:37PM (#14650184)
Akamai Edge Compute is what they are asking for.

As someone who tried building this for the unwashed masses, wait until you have something along the lines of Google Spanner. Developers see amazing gains from edge compute because ZOMG LATENCY, then actually flesh out their apps and start making uncached database calls back to AWS anyway.

EDIT: Yes they lack pricing transparency. Akamai is expensive. As I pointed out, in real world experience less than 5% of the developers I talked to actually could lower response times by moving closer to the client. It's something everyone thinks they need, but the devil is in the implementation details. Akamai hand holds you a lot for your money.

Re:Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $... by johansch on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:42PM (#14650219)
Akamai Edge Compute appears to be a "talk to us for pricing, and we'll then attempt to extract the maximum amount of money that we think you'll be able to pay" kind of deal. No thanks.
Re:Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $... by dsl on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:11PM (#14651440)
If you really want this now, shoot me an email (in profile) and i'll hook you up.
Re:Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $... by kentonv on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @02:37AM (#14652117)
But... also email JGC... or me. ;)
Re:Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $... by eastdakota on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:27PM (#14650121)
Stay tuned.
Re:Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $... by lugg on Thursday June 29, 2017 @06:11PM (#14667268)
Thanks this made me think of parasitic JavaScript and the folding at home project. I know you mean all their nodes. Not all "their" nodes.