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Let me start off by saying, I wish you guys the best and hope my cynicism isn’t taken the wrong way here but reading between the lines… my sense is that there a
by joshenders 5y ago
Let me start off by saying, I wish you guys the best and hope my cynicism isn’t taken the wrong way here but reading between the lines… my sense is that there aren’t enough $NET or $FSLY customers asking for this and both companies aren’t interested in staffing a team to dedicate to GraphQL as a result but ARE willing to let you and your specialized team prototype it on their behalf. Not a bad dovetail.
IMO if you get traction, you would be wise to take an early acquisition offer from Fastly or Cf. I was an early double digits engineer at Cloudflare and I can tell you, you REALLY don’t want to build a CDN to try to compete. Love them to death but look at ImgIX as a case study of how not to bizdev this same business model.
Also, don’t entertain the idea that you can compete with a DIY VM-based “Cloud CDN”, it’s really not comparable. Look at the many dead “mobile first” CDN startups of 2014-2018, as case studies.
Lastly, if you guys create a caching query planner on the edge, you might have a head start on a completely unmatched (afaik) product as an intelligent graphQL “gslb”. As a customer, if I can move my user data geographically closer to my users, that’s a big win for many reasons.
Best of luck!