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Replicate is joining Cloudflare

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288 points bfirsh | 1 comments | 17 Nov 25 14:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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simonw ◴[17 Nov 25 15:15 UTC] No.45954300[source]▶
Congrats Ben and team!

I think this is Cloudflare's most notable acquisition yet? From Wikipedia it looks like they've previously mainly acquired smaller cybersecurity firms like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_1_Security

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michaelbuckbee ◴[17 Nov 25 15:37 UTC] No.45954514[source]▶
This feels the most like Cloudflare branching out to something closer to a traditional hosting model and further from their networking efforts (though things like workers and R2 certainly have blurred that line).
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tracker1 ◴[17 Nov 25 15:45 UTC] No.45954602[source]▶
I'd love to work on Cloudflare's underlying email platform... from pretty early on, I've felt like the workers model could be great for handling relatively short lived tcp connections, not just web requests... in this way, all the other facilities CF offers such as R2 and D1 could be used with an email platform that could scale incredibly well. With this acquisition, it's another natural fit into such a platform for email spam filtering and classification.

Definitely exciting to see.

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NicoJuicy ◴[17 Nov 25 16:19 UTC] No.45955014{3}[source]▶
Recently implemented it to only process emails where the sender is in the list of customers email and then extract info from email and do an api call.

Really easy to do it on the edge. No hassle with POP3, IMAP, ... Easy to use a subdomain of my email domain

Loc: ~40

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1. tracker1 ◴[17 Nov 25 16:24 UTC] No.45955081{4}[source]▶
Did a CF worker for an email group list which worked well enough... having each email address target have to approve themselves was about the only hiccup. Definitely nice options all around.

Would be interested in seeing an Outlook/(o365/Exchange) alternative from Cloudflare with a bit more of a feature rich offering... or at least the ability to build something like that on CF.