Fastly and Cloudflare are now very different companies. Fastly is a CDN, Cloudflare has a CDN product in its product range. Cloudflare is an internet technolog

Fastly and Cloudflare are now very different companies. Fastly is a CDN, Cloudflare has a CDN product in its product range. Cloudflare is an internet technology company, not just a CDN. Cloudflare product range seems to be constantly growing and getting better. While Fastly technically has other products, they are way off the delivery and execution of Cloudflare. Fastly Cloud@Edge has the potential to be a FAAS / AWS lambda killer but Fastly have failed to realise the product unlike Cloudflare workers, which I don’t think is as technically good as C@E but as a product Cloudflare workers is good enough, simple to use, good value proposition and actively being iterated on. I’d choose cloudflare workers over c@e simply because Fastly make it very hard to use the product and pricing wise despite WASI being extremely interesting. Go to Fastly’s website, try to figure out their product range, then try to calculate the cost, then try and enter a credit card to use there services. It’s difficult! Contrast to Cloudflare who have a generous free tier to hook you in, nicely tiered products with transparent clearly displayed pricing. The Clodflare tiers are just enough functionality to tempt you to the next tier without even thinking about it when you need to upgrade. Giving Cloudflare your credit card to give the money is trivial, no hunting around the UX or “please contact sales” at the end of every page in small print. The complainants about Fastly can be the result of they only want to deal with enterprise customers. That’s fine but the likes of AWS, DigitalOcean, dev service companies where built on hooking developers with easy entry/pricing who then took the product to there day jobs at the enterprises. I often hear it called the flywheel effect. Cloudflare seem to be taking the hook devs, build a fan base, make it attractive + easy to use approach to grow organically not lock out the small spenders and only talking to enterprise level spenders.