Firetiger | Product Engineer | San Francisco | Full time, on-site

Firetiger is building self-driving software operations. We believe the future of DevOps isn't better dashboards (like Datadog), but autonomous agents that monitor, investigate, and remediate issues based on high-level business goals. We are backed by Sequoia Capital and founded by Rustam and Achille, former leaders from Cloudflare and Segment.

We are looking for a Product Engineer to build the interfaces between humans and AI agents running software on behalf of those humans. More here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firetiger/f5d4ba4b-29c8-4f77-bae8-8...

People were saying the same thing about AWS vs SaaS ("AWS wrappers") a decade ago and none of that came to pass. Same will be true here.

I've used it quite a bit/have vibe coded quite a few "real" things with it in various languages. It's a really nice complement to Cursor-style and claude-code style interaction modalities.

The amount of work required to stand up 330 well connected locations and then operate infrastructure to filter traffic at that scale profitably is more than "tossing" cabinets at problems.

This is on the level of BrandonM's famous comment on Dropbox. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Nah, not really. I know the amount of work standing up even 5% of that requires because I've been there, done that, have the sheet metal scars to prove it. It's a lot of effort. It's just not -hard-. After a while it's a copy-paste problem with it bottle-necking around the human: signing documents, waiting for tickets and whatnot, and it's pretty disingenuous to suggest it's not.

And ooh, ooh, I can flippantly dismiss a comment by calling back to that infamous comment as well! [0] You're actually posting this as a former VP? Geez dude, lighten up, they're not paying you anymore.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40814123

Is your speculated 11.5gbit per location not a result of their system rather than something to look down on?

Yes, anyone can shove a bunch of network equipment into a bunch of cabinets.

No, not anyone can shove a bunch of network equipment into a bunch of cabinets and run a service like cloudflare on top of that.

And is your argument really “I’ve spun up 16.5 PoP locations before, so I know what I’m talking about?”

> And is your argument really “I’ve spun up 16.5 PoP locations before, so I know what I’m talking about?”

Actually quite a few more than that, but yes.

Then you must know how terrible that argument is

Who cares about justifying an argument to an internet forum when all that cash is being dropped in my account.

You do, given your replies and initial post.

Congrats on the launch. A small nit re: your pricing: you're charging for data transfer (bytes transferred over a long period of time), not bandwidth (bits transmitted at a point in time).

Everyone does? If you sell bandwidth instead of data transfer, you have to either massively overcommit (and fear missuse by a couple of clients) or offer far so little bandwidth to be practical

The problem here is not selling data transfer, it's that the pricing page says "15GB Bandwidth / mo" when it's selling data transfer.

Both.

Very possible there were creds etc accessible in Servicenow that could have been used to move laterally from there. Conjecture, obviously.

eg "Hans Jansen" is <hansjansen162@outlook.com>

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1067708

I'm maybe naive in assuming that there is some kind of investigation going on that isn't playing out in public, but I would assume that years of emails going through Microsoft servers might make the identities of the cohorts in this attack difficult to hide?

When making sockpuppet email accounts use a plausible birth year as your numeric extension.

Major outages are periods of intense stress and extremely difficult to operate in. The folks troubleshooting may be many things, but careless and incompetent are unlikely to be among them.

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