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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

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yomismoaqui · 1785939907 · focus · HN ↗
Everytime I read about new things from Cloudflare they look really cool but I cannot shake the feeling of not wanting to use them for fear of lock-in, am I too paranoid?
1. kentonv · 1785941369 · focus · HN ↗
  This is 100% open source and self-hostable.
  <a href="https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os
  It runs on top of our open source runtime.
  <a href="https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd
  1. vavos · 1785948225 · focus · HN ↗
    It's cool that it's open-source, but how much effort and scale would it take to run it on non cloud flare infra?
    tstrimple · 1785969214 · focus · HN ↗
    ffs there is literally no pleasing some people. "Hosting an open source project is too difficult! They should provide a free SaaS solution instead on their own cost but also no lock-in!!"
    csomar · 1786020343 · focus · HN ↗
    Open Source is a marketing term if your solution takes $2m worth of compute or devops time in order to run properly. The idea is, you have a way out if you want to leave. An option. But if leaving costs $x,xxx,xxx then that option was never there for most people. One example is NextJS. It's open source but even CloudFlare couldn't figure out how to run it properly on their platform.
    kentonv · 1786032159 · focus · HN ↗
    It does not cost $2m of compute to run an instance of Cloudflare OS. I am running it on a random server in my basement.
    AlotOfReading · 1786044265 · focus · HN ↗
    Another year or two of RAM shortages should go a long way to closing that gap.

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