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This Week in NET
by Cloudflare
This Week in NET is Cloudflare’s weekly roundup exploring the Internet’s past, present, and future. Hosted by João Tomé with expert guests, it shares insights that matter to developers, businesses, and Internet enthusiasts alike.Follow us on X: @CloudflareTV and @Cloudflare Read our blog posts at blog.cloudflare.comWatch our full video library at cloudflare.tv/ThisWeekInNet
Episodes
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Inside Cloudflare's Gen 13 Servers: Trading Cache for Cores
In this episode of This Week in NET, JQ Lau and Victor Hwang from our Network & Infrastructure Strategy team walk us through Cloudflare's 13th generation of servers — the machines that power a significant part of the internet across 330+ cities worldwide. The Gen 13 program doubled compute…
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From IBM and Cisco to Cloudflare: 30 Years in Enterprise Sales | Vinti Batiste
In this episode of This Week in NET, Vinti Batiste, VP of Sales for US Enterprise at Cloudflare, shares her 30-year journey across IBM, Cisco, and now Cloudflare — and what it really means to be in enterprise sales. Vinti talks about growing Cloudflare's enterprise business 80% year over year…
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Cloudflare’s Agents Week: Building Infrastructure for AI Agents
In this special Agents Week edition of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Ming Lu (Principal Product Manager) and Anni Wang (Product Manager) to recap Cloudflare’s first-ever Agents Week. The conversation explores why the Internet and the cloud were not designed for an AI-agent world,...
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“It’s Quite a Shock”: The Quantum Deadline Is Real
In this World Quantum Day special edition of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Bas Westerbaan (Principal Research Engineer) and Sharon Goldberg (Senior Director, Product) to explain why the timeline for post-quantum cryptography may be arriving sooner than expected. Recent research...
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Cloudflare Agents Week Preview: What to Expect
In this short edition of This Week in NET, host João Tomé joins from the island of Madeira for a quick preview of Cloudflare’s first Agents Week. João is joined by Ming Lu (Principal Product Manager at Replicate) and Anni Wang (Product Manager) to discuss why AI agents are becoming one of the...
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EmDash: The WordPress Successor That Fixes Plugin Security
In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Matt “TK” Taylor (Senior Product Manager) and Matt Kane (Senior Principal Systems Engineer) to discuss EmDash, a new CMS launched by Cloudflare as a modern, serverless alternative inspired by WordPress. Built on Astro and designed…
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Kimi Found 40+ Security Issues in Our Code. Open Source AI Is Here | Michelle Chen
In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Michelle Chen from Cloudflare’s AI product team to discuss the rise of open models, the launch of Kimi 2.5 on Workers AI, and why enterprises are rethinking the cost of proprietary AI. Michelle explains how Cloudflare’s security…
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From SQL Injection to Cloudflare VP: Chema Alonso on 25 Years of Hacking
In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Chema Alonso, Vice President and Head of International Development at Cloudflare. Chema shares how a 1998 paper on SQL injection launched his career in hacking, his path from running a startup in Madrid to becoming a Microsoft MVP…
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My First Day at Cloudflare Was the Day After the IPO — Heather Orsi
In this episode of This Week in NET, Heather Orsi, Director of Strategic Finance & Investor Relations at Cloudflare, shares her unusual career path across finance, startups, and tech, and what it means to communicate Cloudflare’s story to investors and analysts. Heather talks about her first days...
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Cloudflare’s New CMO Jeff Samuels: Why Brand Wins, Marketers as Context Engineers
In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Cloudflare’s new Chief Marketing Officer, Jeff Samuels, to explore how marketing is evolving in the age of AI. We discuss why brand still wins, how marketers are becoming “context engineers,” and how Cloudflare connects deep…
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From Psychologist to Engineer: Sofia Cardita’s Path to Cloudflare
In this Women at Cloudflare segment for Women’s Empowerment Month, Sofia Cardita, Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, shares her journey from clinical psychology to engineering. Sofia explains how she transitioned into tech through self-learning and hands-on building, and how AI is changing the way...
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Post-Quantum, Deepfakes & Agile SASE: Cloudflare One's Biggest Week
In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Warnessa Weaver (Senior Product Manager) and Yumna Moazzam (Senior Product Marketing Manager) to break down Cloudflare’s SASE blog takeover week and what it means for enterprise security. Cloudflare One is evolving into an agile,...
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AI Deepfakes & Laptop Farms: Inside the 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report
In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Cloudflare threat intelligence experts Brian Carter and Chris Peacey to break down the 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report and what it reveals about today’s cyber threat landscape. We discuss how threat intelligence helps organizations...
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We Rebuilt Next.js with AI in One Week (vinext Explained)
In this episode of This Week in NET (the second this week focused on building with AI), host João Tomé is joined by Steve Faulkner, Engineering Director at Cloudflare, to discuss how he rebuilt a Next.js-compatible framework in just one week using AI. The project, called vinext, began as an...
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Code Mode: Giving AI Agents an Entire API in 1,000 Tokens (With Demos)
In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Matt Curry to break down Code Mode: a way to give AI agents access to the entire Cloudflare API (2,500+ endpoints) using two tools and roughly ~1,000 tokens of context.  Instead of exposing thousands of individual tools (which...
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Moltworker (for OpenClaw) & Markdown for Agents: Running AI on Cloudflare
In this episode, host João Tomé is joined by Celso Martinho, VP of Engineering at Cloudflare, to discuss two major launches: Markdown for Agents and Moltworker (for OpenClaw) — and what they signal about the future of AI agents on the Internet. Celso explains how Markdown for Agents was…
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Privacy in the AI Age: What's Really Changing in 2026 (with Cloudflare's CPO)
In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Emily Hancock, Cloudflare’s Chief Privacy Officer and Data Protection Officer, for a wide-ranging conversation about privacy in 2026 and how the role has evolved in the age of AI. Emily explains how privacy officers shifted from…
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Internet Disruptions & Iran’s Shutdown: Cloudflare Radar Insights (Storm in Portugal Included)
In this episode, David Belson — Cloudflare’s Head of Data Insights — joins us to walk through the biggest Internet disruptions of late 2025 and early 2026. At the start, we also highlight several new posts on the Cloudflare Blog: Moltworker, a self-hosted personal AI agent built with OpenClaw...
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Cloudflare’s 2025 Impact Report and a More Open Internet
In this first 2026 edition of This Week in NET, João Tomé is joined by Patrick Day from Cloudflare’s Impact & Policy team to break down the recently released Cloudflare Impact Report — including how Cloudflare supports elections, protects journalists, advances Internet standards, and expands…
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Record-Breaking DDoS Attacks & the Security Landscape Heading Into 2026
In this end-of-year episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Omer Yoachimik, Senior Product Manager for DDoS Protection at Cloudflare, to break down the realities of the 2025 DDoS threat landscape — and what’s coming next. They discuss how DDoS attacks reached previously...
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AI, DDoS, and the Internet in 2025 | Cloudflare Radar Year in Review
In this special Year in Review episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by David Belson to break down the Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review. Together, they explore what Cloudflare’s global network reveals about how the Internet evolved over the past year — from the rapid rise of…
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Why Replicate Is Joining Cloudflare — and What It Means for AI Builders
In this short episode of This Week in NET, Craig Dennis, Senior Developer Educator for AI at Cloudflare, explains why Replicate is joining Cloudflare, and what that means for developers building with AI. Replicate is widely known for making it easy to run thousands of high-quality AI models, from...
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Proactive WAF Vulnerability Protection & Firewall for AI + Multiplayer Chess Demo in ChatGPT
In this episode of This Week in NET, we talk with Daniele Molteni, Director of Product Management for Cloudflare’s WAF, about how Cloudflare responded within hours to a newly disclosed React Server Components vulnerability — deploying global protection before the public advisory was even…
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AI, Creators & Agentic Commerce — A Conversation with Cloudflare CSO Stephanie Cohen
In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé sits down with Stephanie Cohen, Cloudflare’s Chief Strategy Officer, for a candid conversation about AI, content creators, financial services, partnerships, and the future of the Internet. Stephanie shares how Cloudflare is helping keep the...
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Why the Internet Works (Most of the Time): A Conversation with Tom Strickx
Cloudflare Principal Network Engineer Tom Strickx joins This Week in NET to explain what really keeps the Internet running. From anchors cutting submarine cables to automation detecting bad Internet weather, Tom shares an inside look at how one of the world’s largest networks operates — and why...
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Internet Insights with Cloudflare Radar: New TLD Metrics, Certificate Transparency, and Data Explorer
In this second part of our previous episode, host João Tomé talks with André Jesus, Systems Engineer at Cloudflare and front-end engineer on the Radar team. They discuss the latest updates to Cloudflare Radar, the platform that turns Internet data into accessible insights. André, who joined...
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All about Internet Measurement, Resilience, and Transparency
In this episode, host João Tomé talks with Marwan Fayed, Principal Scientist and Research Lead at Cloudflare, about the science behind understanding and improving the Internet. They explore the Research Week blog takeover on Measurement, Resilience, and Transparency, discussing the tricky science...
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Cloudflare Connect 2025 Highlights: Common & Company
In this special episode, host João Tomé reports from Cloudflare Connect Las Vegas (October 13-16) — the company’s first-ever global event, bringing together customers, partners, and developers from over 60 countries. In the intro, we also share what’s coming next week on the Cloudflare blog — a...
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Cloudflare Connect Las Vegas & The Launch of AI Avenue
In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Leslie Hasvold, Senior Director of Corporate Events, Programs & Customer Advocacy, and Craig Dennis, Senior Developer Educator for AI, to talk about Cloudflare’s first global Connect conference in Las Vegas and the launch of AI...
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Cloudflare Birthday Week 2025 Recap: AI, Security & Internet Insights
In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Cloudflare Senior Product Managers Korinne Alpers and Nikita Cano to recap all the announcements from Cloudflare’s 15th Birthday Week. We cover AI, developer tools, security, performance, and how Cloudflare continues to give back to...
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Cloudflare turns 15: The origin story with Michelle Zatlyn and Matthew Prince
In this special 15th-anniversary episode of This Week in NET, we sit down with Cloudflare co-founders Michelle Zatlyn and Matthew Prince to revisit the early days — from a Harvard Business School project to launching at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010. We talk about how culture takes shape, the...
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Cloudflare Birthday Week 2025: What to Expect?
Birthday Week is Cloudflare’s biggest innovation week — and this year is extra special as we celebrate our 15th birthday. Each year, we pause to reflect on our journey, celebrate the progress we’ve made, and look ahead to what’s next, all while staying true to our mission of helping build a…
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Everything Announced at Cloudflare AI Week 2025
In this episode, host João Tomé is joined by Kenny Johnson (Principal Product Manager) to review everything announced during the week — across Cloudflare One, Application Security, Workers AI, AI Gateway, and Radar. Full list of blog posts at: cloudflare.com/ai-week
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Building a Serverless Social App with ATProto & Cloudflare Workers
In this episode, host João Tomé is joined by Inanna Malick, Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, to talk about how she built a serverless version of a real-time social app that connects to the ATProto ecosystem — the protocol powering platforms like Bluesky. Inanna walks us through her blog post and...
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100 episodes with our guests - the best moments of this Week in NET
We continue our 100th episode celebration of This Week in NET with a special look back at memorable moments from past guests and a quick rundown of the latest Cloudflare blog stories. From Internet pioneers like Geoff Huston, to Cloudflare co-founders Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, and…
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Celebrating 100 episodes with John Graham-Cumming and friends
In this special conversation, João Tomé sits down with John Graham-Cumming, Cloudflare’s former CTO and current board member, to look back at Cloudflare’s journey — from Universal SSL and Heartbleed to Workers, Radar, and what’s next for the Internet. Topics & Timecodes: 00:58 – Favorite…
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The Future of Content and AI: Pay per Crawl and What’s Next
In this episode, host João Tomé is joined by Will Allen, Cloudflare’s VP of Product Management, to discuss Pay-Per-Crawl and our new permission-based model for AI bots. These updates, launched on July 1, 2025 — what we call Content Independence Day — aim to reshape how AI models access and reward...
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AI writes code: Kenton Varda on trust, review, and why Workers is the best AI platform
In this episode, host João Tomé is joined by Kenton Varda, Principal Engineer at Cloudflare, for a wide-ranging conversation about AI, code, and the evolution of Internet development. Kenton shares how a real-world project shifted his view from AI skepticism to seeing the promise of AI-assisted...
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Cloudflare: Growth, culture & AI in recruitment (and 11 years of Project Galileo)
In this episode, host João Tomé is joined in Cloudflare’s Lisbon office by Scott Tomtania, a seasoned recruiting leader at Cloudflare, to discuss the company's incredible growth, its unique hiring philosophy, and how AI is shaping the future of recruitment. Scott shares insights on how Cloudflare...
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Verifying bots and agents with cryptography in the age of AI
In this episode, host João Tomé is joined in Cloudflare’s Lisbon office by Cloudflare Senior Research Engineer Thibault Meunier to explore a new proposal that could reshape how bots interact with the web in the age of AI. We go into Cloudflare’s proposal of using cryptographic signatures for…
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Building MCP servers on Cloudflare (hands-on demo included)
In this episode, host João Tomé is joined by Cloudflare Product Managers Nevi Shah and Dina Kozlov to go into the world of MCP (Model Context Protocol), and why it’s gaining traction fast. We explore what MCP is, why it matters now, and how developers can easily spin up their own MCP servers on...
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Geoff Huston: The Internet’s Past, Present, and Future
In this episode of This Week in NET, we sit down at Cloudflare’s Lisbon office in Portugal with one of the Internet’s original architects: Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist at APNIC (the Asia-Pacific Internet registry). From helping build Australia’s first Internet backbone to now shaping global...
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DDoS attacks up 358%: Early 2025 breakdown
In this week’s episode, we talk about DDoS attacks and their sharp rise in recent months. We also start with a quick look at some Internet trends tied to the announcement of the new pope. To guide us through the world of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, host João Tomé is joined by…
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Internet disruptions: Portugal & Spain blackouts + more
In this week's episode, we talk about Internet disruptions — focusing on the recent major power and Internet blackout, while also reviewing the broader Internet disruptions of Q1 2025. Host João Tomé shares his firsthand experience during the blackout in Lisbon, Portugal, and how an old...
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Building agents and the future for developers
In this week's episode, we continue exploring AI, agents, developers, and how AI is helping developers, and turning more people into developers. For that, host João Tomé chats in the library of our London office with Sunil Pai, Principal Systems Engineer, who’s building AI agents at Cloudflare....
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All about Cloudflare’s Developer Week 2025 (AI, vibe coding, agents, and more)
This episode is all about our second innovation week of the year: Developer Week. Host João Tomé is joined in person at Cloudflare’s London office by Ricky Robinett, VP of Developer Relations, and Craig Dennis, Developer Educator. There’s a lot to go through — new tools and announcements launched...
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A Developer Week teaser, building with Cloudflare, and a tribute to Dave Täht
In this week's episode, we set the stage for Cloudflare’s second innovation week of the year — Developer Week. Host João Tomé is joined by Ricky Robinett, VP of Developer Relations, to preview what to expect when Developer Week kicks off on April 7, with announcements running through April 11,...
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All about Security Week 2025
This episode is all about our first innovation week of the year, Security Week. Host João Tomé (based in Lisbon, Portugal) is joined by Alex Dunbrack and Adam Martinetti, both Senior Product Managers at Cloudflare, based in the San Francisco area. On the table for discussion: a glimpse into some…
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Security Week teaser and Lisbon’s waves of entropy
We’re back with new episodes in 2025, kicking off this week with a Security Week teaser. Host João Tomé is joined by Michael Tremante, Sr. Director of Product Management, to discuss what to expect from our first innovation week of the year, starting next week. They also explore the security...
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2025 Internet Predictions (AI Included!)
Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare's CTO John Graham-Cumming for the final episode of "This Week in Net" in 2024, broadcasting from a rainy Lisbon, Portugal. The conversation reflects on Cloudflare's achievements throughout the year, including significant developments in Workers platform, AI...
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This Week in NET is Cloudflare’s weekly roundup exploring the Internet’s past, present, and future. Hosted by João Tomé with expert guests, it shares insights that matter to developers, businesses, and Internet enthusiasts alike.Follow us on X: @CloudflareTV and @Cloudflare Read our blog posts at blog.cloudflare.comWatch our full video library at cloudflare.tv/ThisWeekInNet
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