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Troy is clearly very pro Cloudflare and Azure. I’m only familiar with them at a high level and it would be great to hear counterpoints to his praise and get (at least the impression of) a debate that encompasses their pros and cons.

+1 for being interested in expanding this

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Basically they add yet another layer of centralization and they're a MITM for all your traffic, so they're an easy target for surveillance. If only they weren't so convenient... I use their DNS service because it's top notch, but I also tend to enable their MITM service because their CDN nodes are super fast and require just a single toggle to enable. They read my far-future expires headers and just cache the content on the edge, no extra work needed.

Doesn't know about Cloudflare but as a Microsoft Regional Director he's certainly pro Azure.

Such a weird title; it makes me think he works for them, but he doesn't

didn't he work for microsoft previously?

No, he worked for Pfizer - https://www.troyhunt.com/today-marks-two-important-milestone...

https://www.troyhunt.com/microsoft-regional-director/

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