Cloudflare ships everything, and people are nervous

Cloudflare launched K2, serverless event streams, and Clef, open-weight decision models with an RL fine-tuning platform, on the same day. One commenter said Cloudflare is buying real goodwill with consistently interesting releases at great prices, "nearly too good to be true". Another said that as a serious customer they would worry about the security of their infrastructure given the almost frenetic pace of releases, since LLMs let teams code fast. The K2 tech lead showed up in the thread to answer questions, and the first one was why anyone would pick this over Pub/Sub or Kafka.

The pattern: Cloudflare is turning into a full cloud, and that is exactly what makes people uneasy. The older threads in this batch make the point from the other side. Cloudflare's anti-bot checks block Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers, and Docker pulls in Spain break because of a Cloudflare block tied to La Liga football matches. When one company sits in front of that much of the internet, local rules and its own bot rules cause collateral damage.

The counterpoint is that most builders still take the cheap, fast, good-enough option and worry later.