This Week in NET
Welcome to our weekly roundup of Cloudflare blog stories and expert analysis on the Internet’s past, present, and future. We cover Internet trends, new tools, and product updates. Hosted by João Tomé, with a different guest each week.
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Welcome to our weekly roundup of Cloudflare blog stories and expert analysis on the Internet’s past, present, and future. We cover Internet trends, new tools, and product updates. Hosted by João Tomé, with a different guest each week.
Listen and follow the This Week in NET podcast
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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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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....
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 —...
In this episode, host João Tomé is joined by Emily Hancock, Chief Privacy Officer at Cloudflare, Rory Malone, Principal Privacy Compliance Specialist at Cloudflare.They discuss Cloudflare's new privacy certifications. At the end, there's also...
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...
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...