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Dear John, As a happy Cloudflare user (free plan for personal use tho) and stock investor, I'm really pleased to see all your excellent and hard work and appre
by riobard 7y ago
Dear John,
As a happy Cloudflare user (free plan for personal use tho) and stock investor, I'm really pleased to see all your excellent and hard work and appreciate open sharing!
I've been tracking your ARM effort for a while (and did my math when you released Gen9 server! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18190891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18190891). I'm not sure how much you could share on what happened to Falkor and Qualcomm's ARM server business in general, but if possible, please do have a similar writeup. It would be extremely interesting and valuable to the whole industry.
Meanwhile I'd assume this must have been discussed internally, but have you ever considered designing your own ARM SoC (and boards) given that the licensing model actually could work (compared to the impossibility of licensing x86)? I know Cloudflare is still a small company (compared to the big four) and maybe the timing is not right and/or scale is not yet there, but you do have this option in the long run. If possible, I'd also like to hear your thoughts on this.
Anyway, thanks for the great writeup and keep the good work going! ^_^