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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.

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> 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...

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.

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.

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.

If you really want this now, shoot me an email (in profile) and i'll hook you up.

But... also email JGC... or me. ;)

Stay tuned.

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.

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