| ▲ | stickfigure 4 hours ago | |
I don't know what Cloudflare's economics are like, but R2 egress is free. You pay for storage and $0.36/million for cache misses, which should be a fairly small percentage. If I had to build a public artifact repository today, that's what I would use. Apparently Maven Central is built on S3 and Fastly. We don't know the terms, but I'm guessing that is more expensive. | ||
| ▲ | mschuster91 a few seconds ago | parent | next [-] | |
> I don't know what Cloudflare's economics are like, but R2 egress is free. Cloudflare is not profitable [1], and has collected about 2 billion $ of external funding [2] in 16 years that eventually wants to be paid back. I would not trust any business on the assumption Cloudflare keeps their stuff available for free. The enshittification and squeeze part is inevitable. [1] https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/NET/financials/annual... [2] https://tracxn.com/d/companies/cloudflare/__IL42hIOXmhTb0V8O... | ||
| ▲ | eastbound 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Hey, what if we had a Maven tax if our repo was in Java, and an NPM tax for repos in NPM, for a centrally-managed repo with vulnerability checks? | ||