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I wonder how employees feel about that change and how they feel since the acquisition. A key determinant in whether I stay with Akamai or not is if I know there
by antoineMoPa 4y ago
I wonder how employees feel about that change and how they feel since the acquisition. A key determinant in whether I stay with Akamai or not is if I know there are competent developers behind the cloud that care and would use the service. Other determinants: simplicity, performance in the UI and pricing that makes sense for an individual developer.
It feels like Linode was small enough to care, which was a key differentiator with other cloud offerings. Now, that advantage is gone with a major name like Akamai. On the other hand, it might be easier to convince people to consider Linode's platform as an alternative to other more expensive clouds.
- tomxor 4y ago> Other determinants: simplicity, performance in the UI and pricing that makes sense for an individual developer. This is my main fear: morphing into some AWSgoogleCloudflare behemoth with a bazillion knobs and complex unpredictable pricing plans. I choose Linode specifically to avoid that time sink. Thankfully there are other's that are supposed to be similar to Linode in this respect, but I've grown to like Linode over the years, and their UI has become pretty refined, but that may be subjective.
- smaudet 4y agoI agree, I think the people saying it's irrelevant haven't used them in years, they had one of the best set of controls I've seen.
- paganel 4y agoAlso, the few times over the years (more than 10) when I had to get hold of their customer service they were pretty good. Last time around I contacted them on a Sunday afternoon and they got back to me later that evening, no AI automatic response, no other bs like that.