Honestly it is kind of wild that they have a cap on how many devices you can use at all. They store so little it’s wild. The thing that makes it really worth being a service is the relay network they handle and the fact that you can support the team building awesome features into the client. That being said headscale is a thing and if you wanna demystify it then you should take a look at that project. The tailscale docs have tons of info about how they operate under the hood too.

I think it was more of the realization and actually labeling it as a practice. Naming things only come after people go (we should give this thing we are doing a name)

You’re the kind of person to store photos, pdfs and executables in a sql db aren’t you?

That is a wild take imo.