Building AI Infra at Cloudflare - Dane Knecht (CTO, Cloudflare)
Description
Cloudflare has retained exceptional talent, continued shipping products at a rapid scale even as they’ve grown to a $80B+ valuation, and are positioned as a leading developer platform for the agentic era with Workers. One of the key individuals who has guided this effort has been Dane Knecht, CTO at Cloudflare and the first PM hired when < 20 employee. Before being CTO, Dane was directly responsible for leading new products and incubation of which Workers was a key cornerstone. If you are excited to learn about agentic infrastructure, maintaining culture at scale, and the how Workers was built brick by brick, this is the pod for you!
In this episode we dive into the following areas:
* Lava Lamps!
* Cloudflare’s Culture from Day 1
* Enterprise & Individual Developer Focus
* Deep Dive into the Workers Platform
* Building Agents on Workers
* Serverless vs Long Running Agents
* Durable Objects (and how it was almost named Agents!)
* Cloudflare Scheduling and Optimization Engine Under the Hood
* Where Agent Development is Headed
Where to Find Dane:
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dknecht/
* Twitter: https://x.com/dok2001
Where to Find Shomik:
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/
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