Ben Fathi: Why I Joined CloudFlare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ben-fathi-why-i-joined-cloudflare/

by jgrahamc • 11 years ago

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joshdotai• 11 years ago

Awesome!

wylie• 11 years ago

I think I missed the context on who Ben Fathi is. Can anyone fill me in?

jgrahamc4• 11 years ago

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/ben-fathi/3/950/b32

dfc2• 11 years ago

Come on cloudflare, that is pretty weak, the CF posts are normally informative and well written. It seems like a third of the way through you just gave up and stopped pretending that any of it was actually about Ben.

loginusername• 11 years ago

Cloudflare posts to HN should be in the same category as post about YC companies that are hiring. Ads. No voting.

It is difficult to believe that CF does not have a "special relationship" with YC, give PG's close ties to Project Honeypot, the precursor to Cloudflare. Nothing wrong with that.

And one could argue even the "informative and well-written" posts are always done with a purpose: recruit developers. These blog posts almost always read like a PR piece described in PG's "Submarine" essay. Again, that's fine.

But they also get promoted to the first page on HN with uncanny efficiency.

jgrahamc4• 11 years ago

Sorry to break this to you. CloudFlare posts get upvoted on HN because people like them, not because of any special relationship.

Was PG involved with Project Honeypot? I wasn't aware of that.

But yes, recruiting is a very important reason why we write very detailed, useful and informative blog posts and open source a large amount of code.

yeukhon• 11 years ago

So is he joining as CTO or some level of director/SVP/VP? He seems pretty technical

__john• 11 years ago

Head of Engineering

https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/658608552328626176

repomies691• 11 years ago

"It's all out there today – and it’s already processing more than five percent of all web requests. "

5% of internet traffic is going through this centralized party? And it is growing? That sounds fucking scary to me.

I hope in the future some tools develop which allow evading the DDOS attacks in some more decentralized way, without relying on trusted party. Of course that is going to be difficult (impossible?), if you want the data to be encrypted.

nraynaud2• 11 years ago

I feel a bit sorry that Cloudflare, the epitome of scrappy and smart now has 200 employees, and is doing some kind of googlesque project.

jgrahamc4• 11 years ago

What the distributed KV store? We need that to provide our service.

nraynaud2• 11 years ago

Sorry, that was looking like a new product sold as is. Did I also misunderstand the headcount inflation?

Ben Fathi: Why I Joined CloudFlare

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