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Not to be a negative Nancy. But do all things in software these days need to be a public service you use? Maybe I am completely overlooking something here but i
by mbrumlow 9y ago
Not to be a negative Nancy. But do all things in software these days need to be a public service you use? Maybe I am completely overlooking something here but it seems that most programmers and most people responsible for software requiring such services should have the ability to write and maintain their own reverse proxy for the services they provide.
- aidenn0 9y agoConsidering they have open sourced the server they run (Pushpin), they are betting that people won't want to do this. Infrastructure is expensive, but benefits from economies of scale, so providing things as a service makes a lot of economic sense.
- jkarneges 9y agoI sympathize with your comment about the excessive level of "as-a-service" products out there. However, I believe we are in a class of IaaS that is justifiably service-based, because there are performance benefits as we grow to being a worldwide service. So eventually it will be about more than just convenience or business model reasons. The best analogy is a CDN. Fastly is useful even if you understand how to maintain Varnish. We're Fastly for push.