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by erulabs 916 days ago
Good promo for Fastly! Fastly is a great company - effectively they're Varnish-as-a-Service, which is really a non-trivial SaaS. I hope this brings in some business for them.
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I read an analogy once and its that:

Fastly == Linux (ability to changes lots of things to tailor to your exact needs)

Cloudflare == macOS (prepackaged to work for most general users, limited config)

I've used both and wish Fastly had a mode where a higher level specification could be used for most/simple cases. It's been quite a while since I've used it so may be a capability it has since added.
They have a whole UI that avoids any sort of VCL.
I feel like Cloudflare is becoming more of a cloud computing platform with a focus on global "instant" delivery of services than a CDN company.

Of course, they're also a really competent CDN company, but they're really leveraging all their experience in that domain to bolster up their compute offerings.

Cloudflare wants to be the defacto "Cloud 2.0" company (where AWS is "Cloud 1.0").

Where Cloud 1.0 is laregly just a "lift/shift" of OnPrem to Cloud.

Cloud 2.0 is hosting on the Edge and infrastructure built completely different than anything legacy from an OnPrem (or lift/shift) mindset.