Unimog – Cloudflare’s edge load balancer

Unimog – Cloudflare’s edge load balancer(blog.cloudflare.com)

25 points by sauercloud 5 years ago | 6 comments

tiffanyh 5 years ago |

Really interesting article.

Comment though ... I'm surprised Cloudflare isn't concerned about being sued over using the name "Unimog" and having the load balancer icon be a Truck, given that Unimog is an actual company who manufacturers trucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimog

fasteo 5 years ago | |

Even the truck in the icon is quite similar to the actual Unimog [1]

[1] https://www.trucksnl.com/pictures/ad-4975423-3e65dbb49baea18...

conchy 5 years ago | |

That was also my first reaction when I saw their choice of name for this. Daimler-Benz owns Unimog, I'm sure they have plenty of lawyers hanging around ready to defend their intellectual property.

eqvinox 5 years ago | | |

> That was also my first reaction when I saw their choice of name for this.

Same here, my first thought was "lawsuit in 3... 2... 1..."

iruoy 5 years ago | |

As long as they're not going to release it it shouldn't be a problem I'd think.

nihilanth 5 years ago |

Good article. But talks far more of how it works and far less about why existing alternatives were not good enough.