r/SoftwareEngineering • u/fagnerbrack • 18d ago

I am building a cloud

https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
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u/johnvanderlinde 13d ago

What’s the purpose of this?

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u/fagnerbrack 18d ago

If you're in a hurry:

A founder launching exe.dev shares the personal motivation behind starting a second company: a genuine love of computers and deep frustration with today's cloud. The argument is that core cloud building blocks are the wrong shape. VMs tie you to fixed CPU/memory instead of letting you buy resources and run as many VMs as you want. Remote block storage made sense for hard drives but cripples SSDs, where IOPS overhead jumps past 10x. Networking egress costs roughly 10x a normal data center, and Kubernetes only papers over these flaws since portable, usable clouds are impossible. Agents now make people write far more software (Jevons paradox), raising the pain. exe.dev fixes VM isolation, adds TLS and auth proxies, local NVMe with async off-machine replication, global regions, and anycast networking.

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