You can read more about our news and what this means on TechCrunch →Big news today! We’ve raised US$12 million in Series A funding led by Accel, with participation from Heavybit and Uncork Capital. The new funding follows the seed round we announced just a few months ago in April, and will allow us to build out our team and product at a faster pace, given the level of demand accompanying the world

This message was emailed to all our newsletter subscribers.Subscribe to our newsletter here.We have some catching up to do. Tailscale opened our waitlist for signups in April 2019, almost a year ago, but we havent shared much news! Its time to rectify that. Over the past 11 months weve grown the team and narrowed our focus to just one core product: a company-wide mesh overlay network based on the

People often ask us for an overview of how Tailscale works. Weve been putting off answering that, because we kept changing it! But now things have started to settle down. Lets go through the entire Tailscale system from bottom to top, the same way we built it (but skipping some zigzags we took along the way). With this information, you should be able to build your own Tailscale replacement except

This post was originally published on bradfitz.com.I used to tolerate and expect complexity. Working on Go the past 10 years has changed my perspective, though. I now value simplicity above almost all else and tolerate complexity only when its well isolated, well documented, well tested, and necessary to make things simpler overall at other layers for most people. For example, the Go runtime is re

This is a re-publishing of our monthly newsletter sent to subscribers earlier this month. Sign up to receive future email newsletters.Another month brings with it another set of Tailscale client updates and features. Heres what weve been working on: Tailscale v0.99 Shields Up About a week ago we released Tailscale v0.99 (full release notes). v0.99 includes more bug fixes and a new feature we’ve b

This is a re-publishing of our monthly newsletter sent to subscribers earlier this month. Sign up to receive future email newsletters.A month ago, we announced Tailscale’s general availability. Since then, we’ve been hard at work improving Tailscale. Today, were writing with some updates. We recently released a new minor version of our client apps. This new version fixes various connectivity issu

Just over a year ago, we founded Tailscale with a common sense of nostalgia for the good old days of LANs. In our collective opinion (then and now) networking and cloud infrastructure has become too complicated. Attempts to increase team connectivity and migrate towards remote work results in a corresponding burden of security. This reduces productivity. Systems and approaches dont scale without s

An article by Michael Tremer titled Why not WireGuard is sometimes shared in VPN discussions. Unfortunately that article contains several misconceptions and some out-of-date information that deserves to be addressed. Lets go through his arguments section by section. Will WireGuard replace my (IPsec) site-to-site VPN? Tremer writes: No. There is no chance the big vendors [] will pick up WireGuard.