Partnerships can keep open source sustainable
Ryan welcomes VoidZero’s Evan You and Cloudflare’s Dane Knecht back to the show to discuss Cloudflare’s recent acquisition of VoidZero and what it means for JavaScript development, how partnerships like theirs can help open-source projects stay maintained and sustainably monetized, and how Cloudflare’s distributed systems are helping to improve developer experience in Vite and beyond.
Episode notes:
VoidZero is now officially a part of Cloudflare. You can read more about the recent acquisition here.
Connect with Evan on LinkedIn and X. Check out Evan’s previous episodes on the pod for a deep dive on the evolutions of Vite and Vue.js.
Connect with Dane on LinkedIn and X. Listen to Dane’s previous episode of Leaders of Code to learn how Cloudflare is building a better internet.
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Preparing for Q-Day
Most of the cryptography securing the internet today rests on mathematical problems that classical computers cannot solve in any reasonable timeframe. That assumption is now being tested. Recent advances in quantum computing have dramatically compressed timelines, and many in the industry have set a target of full post-quantum security by 2029, meaning a complete migration to algorithms designed to remain secure against quantum attacks.
Bas Westerbaan is a cryptography engineer at Cloudflare, where he leads the company’s efforts to migrate to post-quantum cryptography. In this episode, Bas joins Kevin Ball to discuss how quantum computers threaten public key cryptography, what post-quantum algorithms actually are and how they work, the timeline shifts that have made quantum readiness feel so urgent, and what software engineers need to do now to prepare their systems.
Kevin Ball or KBall, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through Latent Space.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
The internet is about to be flooded by machines, and Matthew Prince thinks the old business model is not ready. The Cloudflare co-founder and CEO joins Bankless to explain why AI agent traffic could overtake human traffic by 2027, how crawlers are changing the economics of content, why ads and subscriptions may not survive in their current form, and how x402, stablecoins, and pay-per-crawl could create a new payment layer for the web.
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1:18 When AI Bot Traffic Overtakes Humans
4:19 What Cloudflare Actually Does
10:40 Life on the Internet’s “Ice Wall”
13:33 The Internet’s Business Model Problem
17:43 Google, Traffic, and the Attention Economy
24:56 AI Agents and the End of Ads
28:47 Why Faster Answers Can Still Hurt Creators
33:26 AI Companies as the Next YouTube or Netflix
38:18 Creating Scarcity for Content Markets
41:52 Content Independence Day
45:24 Should AI Agents Count as Human Users?
51:37 The Risks of Subscription-Only AI
57:24 A Golden Age of Content Creation?
1:01:46 Pay-Per-Crawl and x402
1:04:34 Why Stablecoins Matter
1:07:56 The Cloudflare Stablecoin Question
1:14:18 The Final Form of the Internet
1:17:40 The Park Record and Local Journalism
1:22:16 The Centralization Risk
1:27:12 Advice for Content Creators
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MCP on Code Mode (Interview)
This week I’m talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong. Matt works on the Agents SDK and MCP at Cloudflare — we discuss how server-side Code Mode lets one MCP server expose all ~2,500 Cloudflare API endpoints in about 1,000 tokens of context, the dynamic Worker loader that runs model-written code safely in a V8 isolate, Matt’s own workflow with Claude, where memory fits into the future of agents, and his Zaggy git wrapper that keeps agents from force-pushing his repos.
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Featured
Matt Carey on the Cloudflare blog
You’ve Been a Bad Agent
Cloudflare
Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens
Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
Cloudflare MCP Server
Cloudflare Agents SDK
Cloudflare Agents SDK on GitHub
Cloudflare platform
Dynamic Workers
Cloudflare Workers
Durable Objects
AI Gateway
Vectorize
MCP and code-mode references
Model Context Protocol
Introducing the Model Context Protocol
Code execution with MCP
CodeAct paper
GitHub MCP Server
Datadog MCP Server
Pydantic Monty
Coding agents and tools
Claude Code
Claude Code voice dictation
OpenCode
Cursor
OpenAI Codex CLI
Changesets
Handy
Agent memory and personal AI
Granola
Letta
Mastra
Supermemory
Poke
Pi coding agent
Homelab and infrastructure
Swamp Club
Proxmox VE
Tailscale
1Password
K3s
Pi-hole
DuckDB
Apache Parquet
ClickHouse
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The internet is breaking. So what’s next? with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince
AI bots are on track to outnumber humans online by 2027. No one has a better line of sight into that shift than Matthew Prince — his company, Cloudflare, routes more than 20% of all internet traffic. Speaking live from SXSW, Prince reveals how AI is rewriting the economics of the web, how tech giants are scrambling to respond, and what it means for anyone running an online business. Plus, what it's like to be on the frontlines of Iranian cyberwarfare, and why Prince made the unexpected move to buy a local Utah newspaper.
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Why Stack Overflow and Cloudflare launched a pay-per-crawl model
In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow’s Janice Manningham and Josh Zhang sit down with Cloudflare VP Will Allen to discuss the innovative pay-per-crawl model co-launched by their organizations. They explore how the rise of AI has disrupted the traditional “open versus block” internet model, creating a need for platforms to protect their content and data from commercial exploitation while maintaining community access.
The discussion also:
Explores the future of the bot ecosystem, emphasizing the importance of putting publishers back in the driver’s seat to decide how their content is accessed and monetized.
Explains the technical implementation of the pay-per-crawl system, which uses Cloudflare’s bot categorization and WAF rules to serve a 402 “Payment Required” message to specific crawlers.
Highlights the strategic value of data licensing, comparing comprehensive enterprise contracts with the more flexible, programmatic pay-per-use access enabled by the new model.
Notes
Connect with Will Allen, Janice Manningham and Josh Zhang on LinkedIn.
Learn more about Stack Overflow Data Licensing here.
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The Grittiest Conversations of 2025: AI, Business & Beyond
In this recap episode, we highlight the best moments from our 2025 interviews and reflect on the ideas that defined the year.
Featuring:
David Rubenstein (co-founder of Carlyle)
Yamini Rangan (CEO of HubSpot)
Ben Chestnut (co-founder of Mailchimp)
Winston Weinberg (co-founder and CEO of Harvey)
Garrett Lord (co-founder of Handshake)
Aidan Gomez (co-founder and CEO of Cohere)
Michelle Zatlyn (co-founder of Cloudflare)
Evan Spiegel (co-founder and CEO of Snap)
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joubin-mirzadegan-66186854/
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Building Cloudflare for the Next 50 Years | Co-founder Cloudfare Michelle Zatlyn
Fifteen years in, it can still feel like “we’re just getting started.”
Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder of Cloudflare, returns to Grit with Joubin Mirzadegan to share how Cloudflare secures the internet for millions, with a vision built to last generations.
She also shares why staying close to reality and to customers becomes harder as success compounds, and how Cloudflare is helping content creators regain control in an AI driven internet.
Guest: Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder and President of Cloudflare
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The Architecture of the Internet with Erik Seidel
The modern internet is a vast web of independent networks bound together by billions of routing decisions made every second. It’s an architecture so reliable we mostly take it for granted, but behind the scenes it represents one of humanity’s greatest engineering achievements. Today’s internet is also dramatically more complex and capable than in its early years.
Erik Seidel is a Network Engineer at Cloudflare, where he focuses on automating global network infrastructure. He joins the show to discuss his unique journey into tech, the fundamentals of how the internet works, the Border Gateway Protocol, peering versus transit, Cloudflare’s architecture, networking in China, and much more.
Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, having previously been a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He is based in Singapore and can be found via his profile at vand.hk or on LinkedIn.
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Can The Web Survive Generative AI? — With Matthew Prince
Matthew Prince is the CEO of Cloudflare. He joins Big Technology podcast to discuss whether the web can withstand a wave of generative AI companies scraping content, summarizing it, and not cutting the original creators into the revenue. Tune in to hear Prince masterfully dissect the problem and put forth a solution.
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The Shifting Value of Content in the AI Age with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
Cloudflare has spent nearly fifteen years making the Internet faster, more reliable, and more secure. So now that AI systems are changing the way we interact with the Internet, Cloudflare wants to help level the playing field for content creators. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare to discuss the evolution of the internet from search to AI, including Cloudflare’s role in facilitating that shift. Matthew talks about how AI assistants are changing the shape of the Internet, the problems Google created by making traffic the arbiter of content value, and how he sees Cloudflare’s part in facilitating the new content marketplace for the mutual benefit of creators and AI companies. Plus, a look towards how agentic infrastructure may unfold in the near future.
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Chapters:
00:00 – Matthew Prince Introduction
00:37 – Cloudflare’s Role in Securing the Internet
02:08 – The Road to Cloudflare’s Dominance
03:20 – The Internet’s Shift from Search to AI
06:34 – Role of Agents and Content on the New Web
09:44 – Reshaping the Content Market Online
13:05 – De-emphasizing Traffic as a Proxy for Value
18:04 – Will We Run Out of Quality Human-Generated Content?
20:01 – Scaling the Value of Content in the AI Age
22:32 – Cloudflare’s Approach to Inference
24:55 – How Cloudflare Responds to Market Demand
26:04 – Open vs. Closed Models
27:21 – Path to the New Marketplace for Content
30:58 – Advice for Content Creators
32:47 – Exploring the Timeline for Running Models Locally
40:07 – The Future of Agentic Infrastructure
44:52 – Conclusion
Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPT
This week, we look at the fallout from a sweeping internet age-verification law that went into effect in Britain. We explain why age restrictions are suddenly popping up all over the internet — and how some might create more problems than they solve. Then Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare, returns to the show to discuss his company’s new plan to help publishers fight back against A.I. scrapers and potentially to create a new online marketplace for quality content in the process. Finally, we round up some headlines from around the tech world in the latest round of HatGPT.
Guests:
Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare
Additional Reading:
Supreme Court Upholds Texas Law Limiting Access to Pornography
The U.K.’s age gates are coming to America
Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
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Blocking AI crawlers to save the internet, with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince
Cloudflare recently made headlines with breakthrough technology that stops AI companies from scraping online content with impunity. That’s major impact, since the company is involved in more than 20 percent of all online traffic. Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince joins Rapid Response to share how the new tools are poised to dramatically impact AI firms, publishers, and the future of the internet. Prince also takes listeners inside the state of cyberwarfare in the age of AI, and why Trump’s immigration policy could erode US business dominance for years to come.
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"My job is going to change in a dramatic way”: Exploring the future of the internet with Cloudflare
Dane shares his excitement about the Model Context Protocol (MCP), exploring its potential impact on the future of technology. The discussion turns to the growing need for sustainable content monetization and fair compensation for creators in an AI-driven world, and how this connects to Cloudflare’s mission to build a better internet.
The conversation also:
Explores how Cloudflare leverages AI internally to enhance developer productivity and improve code quality while keeping developers as owners of their work.
Covers Cloudflare’s innovative organizational structure and their journey toward becoming an AI-first company.
Episode notes:
Connect with Dane on LinkedIn or X, and learn more about Cloudflare.
Read more about Knowledge Solutions, a data licensing offering that provides continuous access to Stack Overflow’s public dataset.
Learn more about creating a private instance of Stack Overflow for your team or org with Stack Overflow for Teams.
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Grab bag! On the floor at HumanX
Paul Dhaliwal is the founder and CEO of CodeConductor.
Priya Joseph is the AI field CEO at DDN.
Lizzie Siegle is a developer advocate at Cloudflare.
Erin Mikail Staples is a developer experience engineer at Galileo.
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How the internet changed in 2024
Check out Cloudflare’s 2024 Year in Review.
Read John’s posts on the Cloudflare blog or connect with him on LinkedIn.
Shoutout to user Timo Kähkönen for providing knowledge-seekers with a cheap algorithm to find measure of angle between vectors.
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SaaStr 786: Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp
SaaStr 786: Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp
At SaaStr Annual's AI Summit, we gathered an all-star panel of product leaders who have built some of the most widely-used AI features in production today. The speakers included Mario Rodriguez, Chief Product Officer at GitHub at GitHub, Diego Zaks, VP of Design at Ramp, Dane Knecht, SVP of Emerging Technologies at Cloudflare, and Vincent van der Meulen, Design Engineer at Figma, and Dani Grant, CEO at Jam.dev.
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Summer Replay - Cutting Cloud Costs at Cloudflare with Matthew Prince
In this Summer Replay of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey is joined by Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince. In this cost-cutting conversation from 2021, Matthew breaks down what exactly Cloudflare is up to, and how they are handling their clients' cloud cost needs. The pair focus on Cloudflare as a company and the options they are bringing to their clients. They discuss their mutual concerns with some AWS costs and why Cloudflare’s suite of tools has slowly been made available over time. Turn back the clock with this fan-favorite episode for more insight.
Show Highlights:
(0:00) Intro
(0:53) Backblaze sponsor read
(1:20) Origins of Cloudflare
(5:55) The Achilles Heel of the AWS cloud
(10:09) What is Cloudflare R2?
(12:26) Pricing philosophies in the cloud
(17:35) Egress cost of the “static” internet
(19:48) How Amazon’s pricing harms the overall market
(24:34) Firefly sponsor read
(25:10) Cloudflare’s endgame
(28:32) Staying focused as a business
(33:35) The value of providing a valuable service
(37:17) “The internet is a fad.”
(42:19) The strength of admitting you’re wrong
(43:04) Where you can find out more about Cloudflare
About Matthew Prince:
Matthew Prince is co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks, which spans more than 200 cities in over 100 countries. Matthew is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, winner of the 2011 Tech Fellow Award, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law. Matthew holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a George F. Baker Scholar and awarded the Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Illinois Bar, and earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago and B.A. in English Literature and Computer Science from Trinity College. He’s also the co-creator of Project Honey Pot, the largest community of webmasters tracking online fraud and abuse.
Links Referenced:
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Migrating from PHP to Go
Based on their experience in Curve and Cloudflare, Matthew Boyle & Chris Shepherd share their experience migrating from PHP to Go.
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Sonar
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What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 3
The 3 Musketeers return! Filippo Valsorda, Roland Shoemaker & Nicola Murino continue their deep-dive conversation with Natalie about Go’s crypto libraries.
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Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 1
What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 2
ssh: add AlgorithmNegotiationError
ssh: validate key type in SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_PK_OK response
BoGo
Project Wycheproof
The Password Game
Filippo’s open source maintenance policy
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Why Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is the internet’s unlikely defender
Cloudflare is an infrastructure provider basically protecting more than 20% of the entire web from bad actors. When everything is going well, you don't even have to know it exists. It's one of the only defenses — sometimes the only defense — standing between websites and the people who want to take them down.
Protecting free speech on the internet around the world, across war zones and hundreds of different kinds of government, is no easy feat. That puts the company, and CEO Matthew Prince, right at the heart of some of Decoder's biggest challenges and themes.
Links:
A Cloudflare outage broke large swathes of the internet | The Verge
Why security company Cloudflare is protecting U.S. election sites for free | Fast Company
The Daily Stormer just lost the most important company defending it | The Verge (2017)
Cloudflare to revoke 8chan’s service, opening the fringe website up for DDoS attacks | The Verge (2019)
Cloudflare blocks Kiwi Farms due to an ‘immediate threat to human life’ | The Verge
Why Cloudflare Let an Extremist Stronghold Burn | Wired
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince interview on Ukraine cybersecurity | Semafor
3 ways the ‘splinternet’ is damaging society | MIT Sloan
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23885440
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Google’s Epic Loss + Silicon Valley’s Curious New Subculture + How 2023 Changed the Internet
A jury decided the Google Play store unfairly stifles competition and maintains a monopoly. Kevin and Casey discuss how the ruling could reshape the digital economy. Then, a growing movement of developers and enthusiasts of artificial intelligence want the technology developed as quickly as possible, even if it has negative consequences for humanity. And finally, why the internet of the future could look totally different.
Today’s guest: Cloudflare CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince.
Additional Reading:
Epic Games won its lawsuit against Google.
‘Effective Accelerationism’ is Silicon Valley’s latest, and maybe weirdest, counterculture.
Cloudflare tracked the biggest changes to the internet in 2023.
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What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 2
Filippo Valsorda & Roland Shoemaker from the Go Team return & bring Nicola Murino with them to continue catching us up on what’s new in Go’s crypto libraries.
This is everything we didn’t cover + deep dives from Part 1!
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Roland Shoemaker – Website, GitHub, X
Nicola Murino – GitHub
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 1
NIST
FIPS
Diffie–Hellman key exchange
FIPS standard 140
github.com/quic-go/quic-go
tip.golang.org/src/crypto/tls/quic.go
pkg.go.dev/crypto/x509
MultiAlgorithmSigner
OpenSSH format keys
Kerberos edge case, use the correct token from the client
defer channel window adjustment
Improved test cases (removed t.Fatal calls from goroutines), added test against SSH CLI
Agent compatibility
github.com/drakkan/sftpgo
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Cloudflare Workers have a new skill: AI inference-as-a-service
Cloudflare is a cloud provider used by almost 20% of all websites. Developers new to Cloudflare can get started here.
Cloudflare recently launched Workers AI, an open, pay-as-you-go AI inference-as-a-service platform that lets developers run machine learning models on the Cloudflare network from their own code. Developers can get started here.
On a related note, read Ryan’s article exploring the infrastructure and code behind edge functions or check out his conversation with Vercel CTO Malte Ubl.
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a strategy that helps address both LLM hallucinations and out-of-date training data.
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691: Cloudflare Workers Are Next Level With Rita Kozlov And Brendan Irvine-Broque
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Rita Kozlov And Brendan Irvine-Broque about Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare AI, browser rendering API, Cloudflare’s D1 database, WinterCG, miniflare, and more!
Show Notes 00:32 Welcome
01:53 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:20 What are Cloudflare Workers?
Announcing WinterJS
Cloudflare Workers®
Puppeteer | Puppeteer
06:23 How long did Workers take to ship?
07:31 Can you run your entire business on Cloudflare Workers?
10:52 Interesting use cases for Cloudflare Workers
12:33 What makes the edge important?
18:05 Managing GDPR compliance
19:02 What are the tradeoffs of building with Cloudflare Workers?
Cloudflare Queues
20:22 How does Workers pricing work?
26:54 What are situations where you might need longer times?
28:50 Browser rendering API
Browser Rendering docs
29:43 What is Cloudflare D1 database product?
Cloudflare D1
31:05 Cloudflare Hyperdrive
Hyperdrive
“Serverless” Databases
34:27 Cloudflare Workers don’t use a Node.js runtime
Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime
37:13 What is WinterCG?
WinterCG
45:09 Will we ever see a standard for server routing?
TCP sockets · Cloudflare Workers docs
49:30 What is miniflare?
🔥 Miniflare · Miniflare
54:05 Can I run Python on Cloudflare?
55:49 Cloudflare AI
Partnering with Hugging Face to make deploying AI easier
Cloudflare + AI
WebGPU API
Cache · Cloudflare Workers docs
57:04 Supper Club questions
59:38 Sick Picks
Sick Picks Get a bench scrape
Shameless Plugs Cloudflare Discord
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What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 1
Filippo Valsorda & Roland Shoemaker from the Go Team sit down with Natalie to catch us up on what’s new in Go’s crypto libraries. No, not that crypto… good ol’ cryptography! Don’t miss Part 2!
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What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 2
MultiAlgorithmSigner
OpenSSH format keys
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20VC: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes, Why Founders Are Not Ambitious Enough Today, Why Having a Narrow Target Customer is Dangerous & The Three Possible Outcomes in Company Building with Matthew Prince, Co-Founder @ Cloudflare
Matthew Prince is the co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, on a mission is to help build a better Internet. Matthew has scaled Cloudflare to over $1BN in revenue, $20BN in market cap, and over 3,200 employees. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks, which spans more than 200 cities in over 100 countries. Matthew is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, winner of the 2011 Tech Fellow Award, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law.
In Today's Episode with Matthew Prince We Discuss:
1. From Selling Fireworks to Public Company CEO:
How did Matthew first make money selling fireworks as a kid?
Does Mathew believe in the trope "you have to love what you do"?
What does Matthew know now that he wishes he had known when he started Cloudflare?
2. Money, Identity and Happiness:
Why does Matthew feel many of the most successful founders lose their way when they leave their companies? How does he assess Gates, Bezos and others?
Does Matthew tie his own identity to Cloudflare and the success of the company?
How does Matthew evaluate his own relationship to money today? How has it changed over time?
How does Matthew keep score today on how he is doing? What is success to Matthew?
3. The Three Outcomes for Companies Today:
What are the three outcomes available to companies today?
What is the worst and why?
What are the two biggest mistakes Matthew sees founders make today?
Why does Matthew know that diverse teams are more successful? What is the proof?
What is Matthew's single biggest advice to founders when it comes to selecting a co-founder?
4. Focus is BS: You Have to Have Mega Ambition:
Why does Matthew believe it is BS to have a very specific target customer from the offset?
What does Matthew believe are the benefits of not having an ICP in the early days?
What are the biggest pieces of VC advice to founders that Matthew knows to be wrong?
EP 81: Matthew Prince (CEO, Cloudflare): Untold Stories Behind the $20B Business That Runs the Internet
Matthew Prince is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cloudflare, a public company doing over a billion dollars in revenue. In the episode, Matthew shares fascinating anecdotes from Cloudflare’s early days and how they scaled up customers from obscure markets to major enterprises. He also explores Cloudflare's commitment to maintaining a high talent bar and candidly reflects on his co-founder’s battle with a devastating illness. Overall, an unfiltered conversation about the journey of building Cloudflare into the powerhouse it is today.
Wired article on Lee Holloway: https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder/
(0:00) Intro
(1:12) The internet was a fad
(3:49) What is Cloudflare?
(6:42) Project Honeypot
(12:53) Meeting Michelle
(19:12) Buying into the vision
(23:04) The internet was built to support the porn industry
(28:48) Borrowing Money
(37:18) Transparency
(43:08) On Lee Holloway
(52:23) Philosophy behind hiring and talent
(1:00:45) Prioritize curiosity and empathy
(1:02:54) The fairness of an initial offer
(1:07:11) Titles are cheap
(1:21:59) How has being an English major manifested itself?
(1:25:14) Building explosives in high school
(1:32:38) Engaging with fans and critics
(1:38:32) Going public
(1:46:39) Conventional Silicon Valley wisdom
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Produced: Rashad Assir
Executive Producer: Josh Machiz
Music: Griff Lawson
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Reports of Node's death are greatly exaggerated
Amal, KBall & Chris convene a “semi-emergency” pod to discuss the recent (deserved) hype over Bun and what it all means for Node’s community, maintainers & users.
They’re joined by Node Technical Steering Committee members Matteo Collina & James Snell who are here to dispel Bun antagonism rumors, discuss the pros & cons of each runtime, explain how Node continues to thrive & even announce a VERY big upcoming feature!
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Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Matteo’s tweet on Jarred Summer’s obsession with performance optimizations
Bun’s claim to being a “drop in-replacement for Node.js”
Platformatic 1.0 release annoucement
AWS lambda quatas
Node TODO - your guide to getting started with Node.js Core development
Node.js’s new built-in test runner
Node.js project governance
Matteos recent newsletter which Amal magically connected with in the future - “My thoughts on Bun and other Adventures”
fastify - “Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js”
OpenJS foundation
Soon to be released PR for adding the new WebSocket lib to Node Core
Node.js supported binaries
Node.js github issue #19308 “Adding Websocket support to core” which is 5+ years old and coincidentally closed on the day this podcast was released
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Building An Internal Database As A Service Platform At Cloudflare
Summary
Data persistence is one of the most challenging aspects of computer systems. In the era of the cloud most developers rely on hosted services to manage their databases, but what if you are a cloud service? In this episode Vignesh Ravichandran explains how his team at Cloudflare provides PostgreSQL as a service to their developers for low latency and high uptime services at global scale. This is an interesting and insightful look at pragmatic engineering for reliability and scale.
Announcements
Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management
Introducing RudderStack Profiles. RudderStack Profiles takes the SaaS guesswork and SQL grunt work out of building complete customer profiles so you can quickly ship actionable, enriched data to every downstream team. You specify the customer traits, then Profiles runs the joins and computations for you to create complete customer profiles. Get all of the details and try the new product today at dataengineeringpodcast.com/rudderstack
This episode is brought to you by Datafold – a testing automation platform for data engineers that finds data quality issues before the code and data are deployed to production. Datafold leverages data-diffing to compare production and development environments and column-level lineage to show you the exact impact of every code change on data, metrics, and BI tools, keeping your team productive and stakeholders happy. Datafold integrates with dbt, the modern data stack, and seamlessly plugs in your data CI for team-wide and automated testing. If you are migrating to a modern data stack, Datafold can also help you automate data and code validation to speed up the migration. Learn more about Datafold by visiting dataengineeringpodcast.com/datafold
You shouldn't have to throw away the database to build with fast-changing data. You should be able to keep the familiarity of SQL and the proven architecture of cloud warehouses, but swap the decades-old batch computation model for an efficient incremental engine to get complex queries that are always up-to-date. With Materialize, you can! It’s the only true SQL streaming database built from the ground up to meet the needs of modern data products. Whether it’s real-time dashboarding and analytics, personalization and segmentation or automation and alerting, Materialize gives you the ability to work with fresh, correct, and scalable results — all in a familiar SQL interface. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/materialize today to get 2 weeks free!
Your host is Tobias Macey and today I'm interviewing Vignesh Ravichandran about building an internal database as a service platform at Cloudflare
Interview
Introduction
How did you get involved in the area of data management?
Can you start by describing the different database workloads that you have at Cloudflare?
What are the different methods that you have used for managing database instances?
What are the requirements and constraints that you had to account for in designing your current system?
Why Postgres?
optimizations for Postgres
simplification from not supporting multiple engines
limitations in postgres that make multi-tenancy challenging
scale of operation (data volume, request rate
What are the most interesting, innovative, or unexpected ways that you have seen your DBaaS used?
What are the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned while working on your internal database platform?
When is an internal database as a service the wrong choice?
What do you have planned for the future of Postgres hosting at Cloudflare?
Contact Info
LinkedIn
Website
Parting Question
From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?
Closing Announcements
Thank you for listening! Don't forget to check out our other shows. Podcast.__init__ covers the Python language, its community, and the innovative ways it is being used. The Machine Learning Podcast helps you go from idea to production with machine learning.
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HAProxy Presentation
Etcd
Patroni
pg_upgrade
Edge Computing
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Materialize: 
You shouldn't have to throw away the database to build with fast-changing data. Keep the familiar SQL, keep the proven architecture of cloud warehouses, but swap the decades-old batch computation model for an efficient incremental engine to get complex queries that are always up-to-date.
That is Materialize, the only true SQL streaming database built from the ground up to meet the needs of modern data products: Fresh, Correct, Scalable — all in a familiar SQL UI. Built on Timely Dataflow and Differential Dataflow, open source frameworks created by cofounder Frank McSherry at Microsoft Research, Materialize is trusted by data and engineering teams at Ramp, Pluralsight, Onward and more to build real-time data products without the cost, complexity, and development time of stream processing.
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