[hinkley]

I think the first wave of artifactory customers was also populated by companies with limited network connectivity. It’s nuts to run a Rails or J2EE project if your company is using a pair of 1MB modems for all traffic, even if the dependencies are relatively small. Branch offices are similarly hamstrung. That was part of Perforce’s customer base as well, since they could run a local proxy for source code.

As you get into CI/CD you start to notice that your upstream repo is occasionally down, because it’s getting in the way of some deadline.