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...all entirely controlled by a single company. Running on a proprietary closed source stack. Pass.

• dom96 3y ago
  A significant chunk of it is open source: https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/ https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/
• tyingq 3y ago
  Well, it's javascript at the edge. Porting it to somebody else's "javascript at the edge" apis for sockets, kv store, etc, wouldn't be that hard. The lock-in doesn't seem that strong to me. And fully open source DIY global edge seems hard outside of maybe running a botnet :)
  • harrylepotter 3y ago
    I wouldn’t underestimate that. All CDN vendors are substantially different. Lambda @edge is broken into requests and responses, and don’t even get me started on Akamai.
    • crabmusket 3y ago
      It's nice that CloudFlare workers use the service worker API... But useless unless other cloud providers also get on the standards bandwagon -_-
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• gpm 3y ago
  You've just described every major cloud provider.
  • speedgoose 3y ago
    Many people deploy software containers on top of quite vanilla kubernetes distributions.
    • gpm 3y ago
      The equivalent here to kubernetes is workerd, it's open source https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/ https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/ The platform that VPSes kubernetes uses run on though, all the big clouds have a proprietary one.