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It was all making for such an interesting read until the last paragraph. I don't know about anyone else, but I have this inherent hatred of company marketing m

It was all making for such an interesting read until the last paragraph. I don't know about anyone else, but I have this inherent hatred of company marketing material disguised as blog posts. If you are going to write a decent blog post, then write a decent blog post. If people are curious about the author they can look them up (and their affiliation). Don't turn it into a sales pitch.

MaulingMonkey 6y ago
While I share the annoyance for stealth sales pitches: 1. it appears to have been added 2 months after the initial posting rather than a cynical cash grab. 2. it appears the resulting company has pivoted to VPN stuff and is no longer in the log/event processing business anyways?
- tmd83 6y ago
  That's what I was wondering. Tailscale doesn't do logs did it stared with that :(. I would loved to see there logging solution. I like the writeup though I need to do a second pass to fully review everything. The biggest thing that just suddenly hit me was 5 TB/day is really 60MB/s.
- ithkuil 6y ago
  The Company's mission statement is "Simplifying the long tail of software development". Perhaps networking is only of the possibly many building blocks they plan to tackle to simplify software development for the normal companies.
ghj 6y ago
He wrote the post on 2019-02-16 and didn't put in the edit until 2019-04-26 so the causality probably happened the other way around. It seemed like this is a career summary from his time at Google Fiber (which was killed by google). It sucks when your baby gets killed for reasons outside of your control. You want those years of your life to mean something, for the work to live on in some form (hence the "Please, please, steal these ideas"). He probably realized after publishing that the post wasn't enough to give him closure so he started a company to keep working on it instead. (I don't know why I am psychoanalyzing a random blog. I am probably projecting really hard.)
- chestervonwinch 6y ago
  Fiber was killed? Google won’t stop hassling us about getting it here in Austin, TX!
throwaway88955 6y ago
You got it :) simply this company has been receiving advertising on HN that is worth hundreds of dollars since last December. Check it out yourself https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=tailscale&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Fake organized upvoting rings, artificial placement on the homepage if the post isn't getting organic upvotes, re-upping, etc... Literally 100% of posts about this company got to the homepage in a website where 99.99999% of posts don't get even 2 upvotes no matter how great they are. It's corruption that could result in jail but hey, in tech you can get away with this kind of corruption
apenwarr 6y ago
[Author here] As others have pointed out, it wasn't originally a sales pitch and we later pivoted to something else. I agree it came across in a kind of annoying way. I've added a new update at the end to describe what happened, for anyone who is curious.
- cpach 6y ago
  Thank you. Good luck with Tailscale! Very cool service.

MaulingMonkey 6y ago

While I share the annoyance for stealth sales pitches: 1. it appears to have been added 2 months after the initial posting rather than a cynical cash grab. 2. it appears the resulting company has pivoted to VPN stuff and is no longer in the log/event processing business anyways?

tmd83 6y ago
That's what I was wondering. Tailscale doesn't do logs did it stared with that :(. I would loved to see there logging solution. I like the writeup though I need to do a second pass to fully review everything. The biggest thing that just suddenly hit me was 5 TB/day is really 60MB/s.
ithkuil 6y ago
The Company's mission statement is "Simplifying the long tail of software development". Perhaps networking is only of the possibly many building blocks they plan to tackle to simplify software development for the normal companies.

ghj 6y ago

He wrote the post on 2019-02-16 and didn't put in the edit until 2019-04-26 so the causality probably happened the other way around. It seemed like this is a career summary from his time at Google Fiber (which was killed by google). It sucks when your baby gets killed for reasons outside of your control. You want those years of your life to mean something, for the work to live on in some form (hence the "Please, please, steal these ideas"). He probably realized after publishing that the post wasn't enough to give him closure so he started a company to keep working on it instead. (I don't know why I am psychoanalyzing a random blog. I am probably projecting really hard.)

chestervonwinch 6y ago
Fiber was killed? Google won’t stop hassling us about getting it here in Austin, TX!

throwaway88955 6y ago

You got it :) simply this company has been receiving advertising on HN that is worth hundreds of dollars since last December. Check it out yourself https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=tailscale&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Fake organized upvoting rings, artificial placement on the homepage if the post isn't getting organic upvotes, re-upping, etc... Literally 100% of posts about this company got to the homepage in a website where 99.99999% of posts don't get even 2 upvotes no matter how great they are. It's corruption that could result in jail but hey, in tech you can get away with this kind of corruption

apenwarr 6y ago

[Author here] As others have pointed out, it wasn't originally a sales pitch and we later pivoted to something else. I agree it came across in a kind of annoying way. I've added a new update at the end to describe what happened, for anyone who is curious.

cpach 6y ago
Thank you. Good luck with Tailscale! Very cool service.