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Posted by tjek 19 hours ago

Cloudflare Flagship(developers.cloudflare.com)
326 points | 165 commentspage 2
ashvardanian 4 hours ago|
I really like the speed at which Cloudflare is executing toward becoming a critical infrastructure player with all of those new product offerings. That said, not everything needs to be serverless. Their Gen 13 hardware looks impressive, and it’s a pity you can’t rent it by the hour like AWS EC2 Metal instances.
swyx 16 hours ago||
i see @btown's comment below but also just for education about this space:

- anyone have comments/comparisons about launchdarkly vs posthog vs statsig (is it still alive after openai?) vs _____ vs cloudflare flagship?

like a "beginner/intermediate/advanced" progression of what to look out for/what you will want when it comes to feature flags would be highly helpful for me and many others here

zuzululu 17 hours ago||
A bit tangent but related: These things I'm never sure if I should be shipping on day one with mobile apps (Flutter in particular): Flagships, bug gathering, A/B testing ?

I feel strong inclination too but its also way too early before any real users can prove PMF. I've been using Google stuff but wonder if Flagship and perhaps other Cloudflare offerings can help.

The other side is that again it feels too early for this stuff and I just want to ship something quickly.

The work ivnvolved

EFLKumo 19 hours ago||
Worth noticing a Vercel equivalent: https://github.com/vercel/flags
fastball 18 hours ago|
That is actually their SDK / provider agnostic library. The better parallel to this new Cloudflare offering is Vercel Flags[1] (confusing I know)

[1] https://vercel.com/docs/flags/vercel-flags

swyx 16 hours ago||
only 2 hard problems in computer science...
brachkow 4 hours ago||
Funny that my app already uses custom feature flag solution built on... Cloudlfare Workers
chrisss395 6 hours ago||
I'm out of my league on this discussion, but it reminds me of the Configuration Database (CDB) used for most modern aircraft.
pm90 18 hours ago||
More of this please: essential tools for building modern software must be oss; Im fine with paying for a hosted version but just the benefit of learning one tool and being able to use it everywhere (linux, k8s, python etc) is amazing.
isodev 17 hours ago|
Cloudflare oss?
OsrsNeedsf2P 18 hours ago||
Has anyone struggled to run their own feature flagging service? After root causing slow app starts to be caused by the equivalent offering from Firebase, I've been cautious to use any off the shelf solutions
dboreham 18 hours ago|
It's literally a field in your database. I could never fathom why this needs to be an outsourced service never mind an entire company.
youngprogrammer 18 hours ago|||
It can get complicated quickly if you're actually using it in a production system. At my prev enterprise saas company we had feature flags that could be turned on per customer / per environment (dev, staging, prod) with permission + logging model such that our support team could also toggle flags with history of who turned on what. We also had "per user" feature flags for certain test users at companies and had DSL rules to evaluate the features
tuananh 15 hours ago||||
when started, yes. but then you want segment (how you segment your user), rollout strategy, etc.. it will get complicated fast
OccamsMirror 17 hours ago||||
Thank you! I've never understood why this needs to be an external dependency with network requests.
nijave 7 hours ago|||
Unless you're on sqlite, the database is still an external dependency with network requests
NicoJuicy 16 hours ago|||
Deploy to master ( microservices)
strix_varius 16 hours ago|||
Booleans as a Service
5701652400 11 hours ago||
never understood this. why follow over-engineered standard and depend on 3rd party API spec, and 3rd party vendor. if you cannot call home from your service, you having bigger problems. and once you can call home, it is just.. single json file.
jwr 10 hours ago|
Am I the only one worried about Cloudflare becoming too powerful?

We went through this with E-mail: we slept through the period when Google, Microsoft and AWS were growing, and we ended up with them dictating the terms. Today I get 90% of my spam from Google, Microsoft and AWS and they don't care: they can safely ignore spam reports, because at this point they are Too Big to Block.

I have a feeling we are moving towards the same problem with Cloudflare and the web. Tomorrow Cloudflare will start dictating what we can or cannot do and we will not be able to do anything about it. This has already begun: their arbitrary "bot-filtering" for example.

Rp8yXmdmr 9 hours ago||
Cloudflare is already too powerful, their anti DDOS solution is just too good. But their serverless products/features don't really build on that, they are just another hosting company.
xboxnolifes 10 hours ago||
> Am I the only one worried about Cloudflare becoming too powerful?

No, it gets brought up in every single thread about cloud flare. And if this wasnt a feature release that people seem to like, the top comment would probably be talking about how cloudflare is terrible for the internet.

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