It has been roughly speaking five and a half years since the IPO. The original CTO (John Graham-Cumming) left about a year ago.
It has been roughly speaking five and a half years since the IPO. The original CTO (John Graham-Cumming) left about a year ago.
They coasted on momentum for half a year. I don't even think it says anything negative about the current CTO, but more of what an exception JGC is relative to what is normal. A CTO leaving would never show up the next day in the stats, the position is strategic after all. But you'd expect to see the effect after a while, 6 months is longer than I would have expected, but short enough that cause and effect are undeniable.
Even so, it is a strong reminder not to rely on any one vendor for critical stuff, in case that wasn't clear enough yet.
You can coast for quite some time (5-10 years?) if you really lean into it (95% of the knowledge of maintaining and scaling the stack is there in the minds of hundreds of developers).
Seems like Matthew Prince didn't choose that route.
I wondered what happened to him?
I am reading HN.
What is your opinion on the recent Cloudflare outages?
He's on a yacht somewhere
For real