Agree, awesome news for Twilio. Congrats Jeff and team.
Disagree that passion for Twilio comes from distance to traditional telecom. That has not been my personal experience, anyway. Can anyone imagine that Twilio operates in a vacuum without any need for telecom dealings? If anything, Twilio insulates us from interfacing with the big bad telecoms, and allows us peons to benefit from their legwork for a reasonable, predictable, per-transaction fee.
I doubt a blue whale flinches when a krill gives it the finger (proboscis? antennae? whatever appendage krill use as a rude gesture).
You piqued my interest, Jeff, so I did check out ninjablocks.com. They have a cloud service (ninjablocks.com/cloud) that appears that the whole heroku/pusher bit might be unnecessary. The hardware is open, so you could build your own, or they are also doing limited runs were selling them for $155 AUD ($160 USD, £100 GBP) for the basic device, more with sensors and stuff.
I suppose one could also use IFTTT recipes too, again to get around the server bit. Still, this is more DIY with websockets, so that's got a big cool factor.
I suppose if you have a big trust issue letting Cdnjs host your libraries or if you have a customized build of one, you could just do what they did and sign up for CloudFlare and control the files yourself. [edit: CloudFlare, not Cloudfront]
You know, I'm just cynical enough to believe that security problems have little or no bearing on stock price. However, reputation is a kind of stock too, so from that perspective I agree, public CDNs like these have little to gain and lots to loose by tampering with these libraries to inject, say, a behind-page pop-up with ads.
Came here to suggest 80legs too, happy to see you're on it. I would add that if the project was being done for actual work and not just curiosity, then 80legs has the added advantage of not spending all that dev time building and testing it.
Disagree that passion for Twilio comes from distance to traditional telecom. That has not been my personal experience, anyway. Can anyone imagine that Twilio operates in a vacuum without any need for telecom dealings? If anything, Twilio insulates us from interfacing with the big bad telecoms, and allows us peons to benefit from their legwork for a reasonable, predictable, per-transaction fee.
I doubt a blue whale flinches when a krill gives it the finger (proboscis? antennae? whatever appendage krill use as a rude gesture).