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The New Internet
We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. But let’s look at the biggest of big pictures for a change.
But on my slow computer in the 1990s, I could run a perl or python program that started in milliseconds and served way more than 0.2 requests per second, and printed logs to stderr right away so I could edit-run-debug over and over again, multiple times per minute. You could reconfigure the firewall, and port forward through the NAT, I guess, and if you’re lucky you could pay your ISP an exorbitant rate for a static IP, and maybe get a redundant Internet link, and I know some of my coworkers actually did do all that stuff on a rack in their garage. But that means you pay cloud fees for network egress, and storage, and the CPU time for running whatever server program is managing all that stuff.
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