CloudFlare is acquiring Astro web framework. I’ve built several personal projects using Astro and all deployed on CloudFlare. I guess that’s a common pattern 😛 Both products mesh together nicely so this makes sense. Hope CloudFlare keeps improving Astro.
Tech
Valve makes almost $50 million per employee
This is kinda insane. Valve makes more per employee than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft. Gaming industry has had its troubles this year with layoffs at Activision, Microsoft, EA, and others. And Valve is here making $50 million per employee with average salary per employee of more than $1.3 million.
AWS releases Regional NAT Gateway
AWS quietly released Regional NAT Gateway. This seems like a pretty nice improvement for configuring and managing multiple NAT gateways across AZs for high availability. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have any benefits in terms of pricing/cost ☹️