Re:Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $...
by dsl on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:37PM
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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
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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.
Interesting idea. jgc AT cloudflare to tell me more.