I'm a super big fan of CloudFlare and I especially appreciate when a CEO / Co-founder of a successful company stays so close to it's customers by writing a detailed blog post about features/problems they achieved/solved.
Thanks, that's kind of you to say. One of my favorite parts of my job is I am surrounded by really smart engineers who I constantly learn new things from. In this case, Marek spent a bunch of time with me walking through the innards of how Linux sets up a socket. Was a lot of fun to learn about and write up. If you want an even more technical post on the subject, you should check out his blog:
You mean he didn't just tell you to go read Beej's guide [0]?
Joking aside, I really enjoy reading Cloudflare's blog posts. I know they don't just pop into existence without some serious effort. Thanks for taking them seriously.
And I can confirm that he really did write this blog post (it wasn't ghost written). A few folks internally checked it for accuracy, but Matthew does like to stay on top of the technical details.
Definitely appreciate this a lot. I am sure he gets it reviewed by a few people who are closer to the metal.
This is a great way for him to be on top of all the technology that goes in his extremely technical company. Moreover, him understanding the details from the engineers, then writing a blog post about it, and then getting it reviewed by the engineers ensures that the blog post will be understandable for the customers, who are likely to be at (or slightly below) his level of understanding of this technology, not the engineers who actually implemented the thing.
