[matsur]

The amount of work required to stand up 330 well connected locations and then operate infrastructure to filter traffic at that scale profitably is more than "tossing" cabinets at problems.

This is on the level of BrandonM's famous comment on Dropbox. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

[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?”