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Cloudflare acquiring fly.io would be interesting to see.

While this doesn't preclude your scenario, note that cloudflare acquired appfleet recently, which was a similar service:

https://appfleet.com/pricing

https://appfleet.com/blog/appfleet-joins-cloudflare/

I'd bet more on them using their internal stack/expertise from building workers.

Cloudflare acquiring Lumen and Fly would be interesting to see.

All of Lumen’s value is in the nationwide backbone fiber although they are trying to make a play in edge computing. IMO those fiber assets in the hands of a company like CF combined with a service like Fly would be pretty incredible.

You prefer monopoly?

As I was reading this article, I thought to myself, oh, this is the acquirer fly.io has in mind…

I think we're a year ahead of Cloud Flare on learning but we do not want to be acquired. They also don't like us much.

That's what they all say.

Sometimes it's a negotiation stance. Sometimes it just means "getting acquired sucks and we would rather do our own thing in the way that we think is best". Like this time!

> They also don't like us much

Huh, that's too bad! Meaning they've caused trouble for your customers? Definitely disappointing to hear...

Oh no. I don't want to imply anything nefarious. I think we've just been irritating.

when can we see some real competition with CF? as in offering a modular CDN, WAF, etc? Your build-your-CDN blog post left me hoping you’ll build one for us :)

I think we'll solve some of this, most people who want a WAF just want to check a box. It makes sense to sell them a WAF. It's not where we're most valuable, though, our customers are pushing us towards much more interesting infrastructure. :)

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