This article resonates with me, mainly, because I think there is one technology, or maybe 2 which can free us, but they will disrupt so much of our technology, that I doubt they will be allowed to exist. Solar flying/hovering craft (aka antigravity) and farming androids. Currently, we are trapped in the 2-dimentional plane of transportation. If we move it to 3d, we wont need roads, grids and even cities(maybe just marker/shopping hubs. As for the droids, we have rhe answer to cheap food production but we are too lazy for manual labour.
This is why I have trust issues with anything Microsoft. They keep burning bridges... And well, lots of Corporations keep trusting them. I guess they deserve each other.
Here is how I see it. Imagine you're an old fashioned Police Precinct. You're thinking of building a K9 unit. The FDE in this article, is a K9 officer, who will come along with a puppy shepherd(ai agents), and stay at your precinct until the puppy is ready for his first patrol. The ideal scenario, is for your precinct, to equip some of your officers with puppies(ai agents), and mirror the FDE. Guys, this is literally a rehash of SAP deployments. You guys remember those? A team of outsiders would come in and transition your workflow and processes to SAP. In this case, it's more like a traffic controller equipped with ai agents to assist him with the toil, and he serves as "human-in-the-middle".
What about dynamic credentials. Why can't we deploy HSM(hardware security module), they are so much more affordable now. We then deploy fido2 keys, have our long lived keys in there and have HSM serve as dynamic credentials server.
Strix was so close to being the hero we deserve. I think these blue torches like strix should offer their services for free to open source ships out at sea. There are 3 wins here, GLOBAL GOOD WILL, testimonial and reviews, and market loyalty reward.
Welp, it looks like if you selfhost, the sandboxing of plugins benefit goes out thr window from what I'm reading. What kind of open source is that? Opencore? More like openinsecure, for thr security version, pay the Piper. I might still give it a try, but I sure hope we can put monthly monetary ceiling, had ceilings on our accounts. Anyone knows if cost-caps are possible on CLOUDFLARE??
Also, it looks like there are egress charges to download R2 object storage. So he day we choose to exit stage left, we will be taxed. Wanna setup independent backups for compliance, we will get taxed on egress. Am I reading this right guys??
Honestly, you'll struggle to find a cloud platform cheaper than cloudflare.
The $5/mo gets you 10 million dynamic requests (static assets are not included in this limit, so often a single pageview will be 1 dynamic request) and that would be across the whole workers product for your account, no extra pricing for extra websites, domains, or anything else like you'd see in most "wordpress hosting"
I run all my personal sites and client sites (one of them for a fortune 500 company) in the $5/mo plan, and the only time I went over that was when a client got hammered with malicious requests (and it was like $100)
Disclaimer: I have no relationship to cloudflare, I'm just a happy customer
I run a rust webserver on a €4 VPS from hetzner that serves 300M (million) requests a day. Way cheaper than doing that on _any_ "serverless" request-based platform, I think.
Yes perhaps I should have specified you can't get much cheaper for serverless platforms.
You can certainly run a VPS like that for cheaper, you could probably even beat the raw request numbers from those 1€ a month vps from ovh or similar. The key difference is with cloudflare your site is globally distributed by default, and you get to buy into the whole ecosystem, if you want.
But sometimes you do have clients in both sides of the atlantic and it's nice being able to cut their request times by a few hundred ms "for free". Personally, that's not the main reason I use cloudflare, but it can be handy!
Care to share your multi-site strategy? I've been investigating ways to program billing alerts, which should alert me when bill is at xx%. There are a few ways, so that makes it more paletable. It just boils my blood when these big platforms don't offer it as a feature. THAT IS JUST PURE UNADULTERATED EVEIL, IT SOULD BE CRIMINAL REALLY!!
Can you expand on this, specifically how it compares with jamf? It is a direct competitor to jamf right? Essentially Apple vying to eat their lunch right?
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