You brought many fascinating ideas to the table with this article. As someone who's seeing this for the first time, and adjusting to the paradigm shift you laid out, I'm curious to know what was the context which led you to write this article. What sort of ideas, resources and events helped you connect the dots and express CloudFlare's plan in this way?

thanks! I worked at Netlify and AWS before my current job at Temporal, so:

- I've spent quite some time thinking about how "new clouds" compete with Amazon

- I've seen Netlify argue (with mixed results) that its users should not put Cloudflare in front of Netlify

- I've had casual chats with Rita and James (mentioned in the article) that got me really thinking about what their strategy is. I've had "eating the cloud from outside in" since the start of the year - the Go analogy only came that weekend when I finally sat down to write this thing and R2 was just freshly out.

- I've listened closely to all of Ben Thompson's stuff