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David Crawshaw

What David Crawshaw thinks about the cloud

@david-crawshaw · 19 positions · On ppll ↗

Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what David Crawshaw has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingVMs are the wrong cloud abstraction because they bundle CPU and memory into fixed-size units.

    Their wordsVMs are the wrong shape because they are tied to CPU/memory resources.

    ↗I am building a cloudcrawshaw.io 1st of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingCloud abstraction problems cannot be fixed by adding more abstraction layers on top.

    Their wordsYou cannot solve the fundamental problems with cloud abstractions by building new abstractions on top.

    ↗I am building a cloudcrawshaw.io 2nd of 3 in this piece