I’m Joining CloudFlare

Working at CloudFlare is the intersection of four things for me:

There’s sort of been four eras of “how do I web server”:

A lot of people see the realtionship between these things as “what you control” vs “what does the provider control”, but I don’t think that’s quite right. In the same way that IaaS said “let’s not force people to buy servers to scale” and PaaS said “let’s not force people to build out infrastructure to scale”, FaaS says “let’s not force people to scale their help page to scale their shopping cart.” This is interesting because, well, here’s those 20 Amazon regions:

You’re much likely to be physically closer to a Fastly or CloudFlare server than you are an AWS one.

Source: words.steveklabnik.com