in 1997 I saw Linus Torvalds speak at UC Berkeley following his move to California to work at Transmeta. I was a computer science undergrad at UC Davis, and took Amtrak to Berkeley along with some friends to see Linus in person. Linux was building momentum, and Linus was a real celebrity to those in the space.
Supporting Linus and the Linux community is a great legacy for Transmeta, even if their products didn't find commercial success.
Another important feature: HEVC playback on Mac OS X. An increasing amount of video content, especially content recorded on mobile phones, uses HEVC. Inconsistent playback support represents a real barrier to HEVC adoption (among other things), and Firefox support goes a long ways toward making HEVC more widespread.
I'm amazed that their architecture doesn't include a CDN. These days I expect nearly all high traffic websites to make use of a CDN for all kinds of content, even content that's not cached.
They cited Cloudflare not being used due to privacy concerns. It'd be interesting to hear more about that, as well as why other CDNs weren't worth evaluating too.
This literally cost me sleep last night, paging me for new Kubernetes nodes that failed to transition to 'Ready' because they were unable to pull Calico images during bootstrapping. After some duct-taping to get those initial nodes up and running, we just moved the Quay-hosted images to a GCR repository and moved on with life.
But that doesn't diminish the fact that this outage is a complete disaster for Quay.
Supporting Linus and the Linux community is a great legacy for Transmeta, even if their products didn't find commercial success.