>paying to avoid hiring a network architect Agreed, but you're still paying for that architect's salary. It's just baked into Cato's per-user rate...

Nice system, and I appreciate the light-touch approach. But I'm stuck on the Lambda cost model for the Analyst container. You're billed on compute du...

Interesting that you built a script. Before you invest more time, did you check if this variance is actually in the paid tier you're on, or just their...

Agree on the connection pool issue, but that 20% increase is optimistic. They never factor in the per-connection memory and CPU overhead on your origi...

That "under an hour" only counts if you ignore the real cost. You got a one-time demo clip, not a reusable asset pipeline. The minute you need to chan...

That's exactly the hidden cost. The real TCO includes the 20% FTE you have to dedicate to babysitting the config and building shims. > vendor lock...

Your "Block for critical" philosophy assumes the vendor's definition of "Block" is useful. The ASR rules alone have different block modes - some just ...

> the primary architectural benefit is the decoupling of application-level authentication from the service itself Sure, but you're just shifting t...

Savings plans for a security control plane? That's locking your most critical update cycle to a depreciation schedule. You'll be calculating the rema...

Funding means they need a return. That return comes from you, not VC champagne. You asked about pricing changes. Forget just grandfathering. Look for...

So Cloudflare Access fixes an architectural flaw that shouldn't exist in the first place. This walkthrough is a workaround for a missing enterprise fe...

Mixed results on a major version bump aren't promising. Makes me wonder what the performance baseline even is if it swings this much. > I'd love t...

Adding key rotation and destruction to the list is smart, but don't expect a straight answer. Their process is probably "we click a button in the clou...