I really hope cloudflare doesn't go the way of a Google.
At one point they were benevolent dictators, and we the subjects enjoy being oppressed.
Now with the virtual signaling, rotted business ethics, 0 support available, and tone deaf corporate decisions, we put them into a place of power only to have it used against us.
This is exactly why I was massively concerned about the cloudflare IPO. I always saw cloudflare as being one of the top tech companies in the world, no bullshit, high quality service, blog posts which are incredible, open source (contribution and libraries, iirc I've used their lz4 golang implementation in some hobby projects), free tier or REASONABLE indie pricing ($20/month for small businesses iirc) all of which screams cool-tech-startup...
then you bring in an IPO and the company is duty bound to make profits and it will all go to shit, and I'm really not looking forward to that both as an advocate and a customer.
It’s always possible but for now Cloudflare is a joy to work with and their engineering is top notch. If it wasn’t for their corp HQ being in the most crazy expensive city in the US that is the place I’d like to work. Check out their GitHub repos sometime, there are some real gems in there.
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I really hope cloudflare doesn't go the way of a Google.
At one point they were benevolent dictators, and we the subjects enjoy being oppressed.
Now with the virtual signaling, rotted business ethics, 0 support available, and tone deaf corporate decisions, we put them into a place of power only to have it used against us.
This is exactly why I was massively concerned about the cloudflare IPO. I always saw cloudflare as being one of the top tech companies in the world, no bullshit, high quality service, blog posts which are incredible, open source (contribution and libraries, iirc I've used their lz4 golang implementation in some hobby projects), free tier or REASONABLE indie pricing ($20/month for small businesses iirc) all of which screams cool-tech-startup...
then you bring in an IPO and the company is duty bound to make profits and it will all go to shit, and I'm really not looking forward to that both as an advocate and a customer.
It’s always possible but for now Cloudflare is a joy to work with and their engineering is top notch. If it wasn’t for their corp HQ being in the most crazy expensive city in the US that is the place I’d like to work. Check out their GitHub repos sometime, there are some real gems in there.
They have a large engineering office in Austin, too.