Nela Collins

Author Archives: Nela Collins

The Internet Mince Pie Data Base: 2018 Edition

The Internet Mince Pie Data Base: 2018 Edition

In December 2017 we unveiled the true potential of Cloudflare’s scale: to find the best commercially available mince pie and let the world know about it. In 2018 we’ve all been extremely busy helping Cloudflare & our customers and therefore we left it very late this year. Uncomfortably late.

If you want to know the best mince pie to buy in 2018 right now, skip straight to the bottom of this post where we reveal the winner. If you want to understand more about what makes a mince pie great and how we can learn this at Cloudflare’s scale - read on.

How do you review 42 varieties of mince pie in an hour?

With a very short amount of time to get this research out to a discerning and demanding public, we engaged the entire Cloudflare London team to help. Team members diligently went out and purchased mince pies from all over the South East of England for everyone to taste.

The Internet Mince Pie Data Base: 2018 Edition

On Monday the team assembled for a “Mince Pie Jam”, where we would taste & consistently review each pie:

The Internet Mince Pie Data Base: 2018 Edition

A quick refresher - what is a mince pie?

The Internet Mince Pie Data Base: 2018 Edition

As we can see from even the most cursory Internet Continue reading