If someone is building a new cloud, worth learning a few lessons from Cloudflare.

Perhaps the VM idea is old. The unit is a worker encapsulated in some deployable container.

In the world of Cloudflare workers - especially durable objects that are guaranteed to have one of them running in the world with a tightly bound database.

The way I think of apps has changed.

My take is devs want a way to say “run this code, persist this info, microsecond latency, never go down, scale within this $ budget”

It’s crazy how good a deal $5/mo cloudflare standard plan is.

Obviously many startups raise millions and they gotta spend millions.

However the new age of scale to zero, wake up in millisecond, process the request and go back to sleep is a new paradigm.

Vs old school of over provision for max capacity you will ever need.

Google has a similar, scale to zero container story but their cold startup time is in seconds. Too slow.