This is exactly what I meant by a bland corporate brand. Their tech stack might be great, but their entire look and feel is "old school corporate you need to talk to sales and if you need to ask how much you can't afford it" vs Linode's "developer first, here's all the info you need go ahead and sign up" approach.

Oh and the salesperson is going to look up your company info before deciding if they'll even call you back to give you a quote.

Are you my colleague? I don't understand why part of our teams chose Akamai. The other ones who use Cloudflare just do API calls when they deploy.

The Akamai team needs to send an email, then 2 meetings going back and forth, staging, approval, and then go-live.

Because Akamai still has better performance and price point than cloudflare.