• refalo@programming.dev
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    I don’t understand how/why this got so popular out of nowhere… the same solution has already existed for years in the form of haproxy-protection and a couple others… but nobody seems to care about those.

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      Probably a similar reason as to why we don’t hear about the other potential hundreds of competing products or solutions to the same problem (in general).

      Luck.

      It’s just not fair in our world.

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      Probably because the creator had a blog post that got shared around at a point in time where this exact problem was resonating with users.

      It’s not always about being first but about marketing.

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          Compare and contrast.

          High-performance traffic management and next-gen security with multi-cloud management and observability. Built for the enterprise — open source at heart.

          Sounds like some over priced, vacuous, do-everything solution. Looks and sounds like every other tech website. Looks like it is meant to appeal to the people who still say “cyber”. Looks and sounds like fauxpen source.

          Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests to protect your website!

          Cute. Adorable. Baby girl. Protect my website. Looks fun. Has one clear goal.