by tomklein on 8/4/22, 8:34 PM with 3 comments
by scottydelta on 8/4/22, 8:54 PM
I have been using Cloudflare since 2014. I started with just Nameservers/DNS and today I use them for alot of things, some being:
1. Workers for caching API on edge(reduces massive overhead on origin server)
2. Cloudflare pages for hosting static sites(alternative to netlify/vercel)
3. Domain Registration at Cost
4. Cloudflare Access to add auth to third party apps I host
5. Automatic Platform Optimizations (APO) to optimize/serve wordpress blog on edge. Gives a massive boost to google page insights score.
6. Cloudflare Images for automatic image optimization on the fly.
Waiting for them to start providing CDN services like static files caching on edge(currently I used bunny.net).
by gz5 on 8/4/22, 9:01 PM
Twilio did similar, but security and networking are more difficult domains to 'land and expand' from the 'bottom-up' due to the numbers of teams involved in those domains in a typical large business.
I do believe increasingly the 'developer is the new gatekeeper', especially as modern dev teams increasingly encompass architects, app dev, ops and security. Even if that is true, it is exceedingly difficult to serve builders and operators; kudos to Cloudflare.
by gigatexal on 8/4/22, 9:00 PM