[theideaofcoffee]

Nah, not really. I know the amount of work standing up even 5% of that requires because I've been there, done that, have the sheet metal scars to prove it. It's a lot of effort. It's just not -hard-. After a while it's a copy-paste problem with it bottle-necking around the human: signing documents, waiting for tickets and whatnot, and it's pretty disingenuous to suggest it's not.

And ooh, ooh, I can flippantly dismiss a comment by calling back to that infamous comment as well! [0] You're actually posting this as a former VP? Geez dude, lighten up, they're not paying you anymore.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40814123

[orf]

Is your speculated 11.5gbit per location not a result of their system rather than something to look down on?

Yes, anyone can shove a bunch of network equipment into a bunch of cabinets.

No, not anyone can shove a bunch of network equipment into a bunch of cabinets and run a service like cloudflare on top of that.

And is your argument really “I’ve spun up 16.5 PoP locations before, so I know what I’m talking about?”

[theideaofcoffee]

> And is your argument really “I’ve spun up 16.5 PoP locations before, so I know what I’m talking about?”

Actually quite a few more than that, but yes.

[orf]

Then you must know how terrible that argument is

[theideaofcoffee]

Who cares about justifying an argument to an internet forum when all that cash is being dropped in my account.

[orf]

You do, given your replies and initial post.