Title: Unlocking the Cloudflare app ecosystem with OAuth for all

Cloudflare turning into a Cloud platform is undoing what it was really doing well: making small clouds and diy hosting manageable in the hostile web environment.

Once their revenue from Cloud services overtakes their core offering, bye bye Cloudflare free and so on.

Not sure whats the play here, there is no world where this can turn out good. Cloudflare is more or less infrastructure provider, this idea of some user delegating permissions to their account to some third party client for infrastructure is ripe for abuses. If companies like AWS are not doing it then its for a good reason.

This is such a weird blog post.

It's full of technical details, but I'm really not sure who they're for. There's nothing particularly novel or impressive. If anything the fact that it took them this long should be embarrassing. They pad it out with a table of stats that are just kind of meh? Congrats I guess for releasing something without burning the house down?

As an on-and-off customer of theirs I tried to quickly skim for some of the details that would impact me, the theoretical end-user, but the vast majority of TFA is just about how they pulled off this apparent feat of engineering.

I'm not trying to be pessimistic, and I don't fault the author (but I question the culture). I honestly don't get who this is for.

For the record this is something they should have had... at least six or seven years ago?