When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus online was that front-end development jobs would be totally eliminated within a year or two.Well, it’s been more than two years since then, and I thought it was worth revisiting some of those early predictions, and seeing if we can glean any insights about where things are headed. Keep reading.
After years navigating the exhilarating world of high-growth tech, from Amazon to Twilio’s scaling journey and most recently Wiz’s rapid ascent, I’ve learned to recognize a truly special opportunity when I see one. That’s exactly what I have found at Cloudflare and why I’m thrilled to join. What drew me to Cloudflare was the unique combination of a powerful mission, a transparent and results-oriented culture, and the sheer scale of impact. Cloudflare isn’t just a technology company — it’s a force for good, building a better Internet for everyone. This really resonates with my own values. ...
Introducing Augment Agent: an AI Agent for pro software engineers (Sponsored)Augment Code is the first AI coding Assistant built for professional software engineers, large codebases, and production-grade projects. Now they're excited to unveil Augment Agent, a powerful new mode for Augment Code that can help you complete software development tasks end-to-end. Agent can: ...
Today, we’re sharing a preview of a new feature that makes it easier to build cross-cloud apps: Workers VPC. Workers VPC is our take on the traditional virtual private cloud (VPC), modernized for a network and compute that isn’t tied to a single cloud region. And we’re complementing it with Workers VPC Private Links to make building across clouds easier. Together, they introduce two new capabilities to Workers: A way to group your apps’ resources on Cloudflare into isolated environments, where only resources within a Workers VPC can access one another, allowing you to secure and segment app-to-app traffic (a “Workers VPC”). ...
Any public certification authority (CA) can issue a certificate for any website on the Internet to allow a webserver to authenticate itself to connecting clients. Take a moment to scroll through the list of trusted CAs for your web browser (e.g., Chrome). You may recognize (and even trust) some of the names on that list, but it should make you uncomfortable that any CA on that list could issue a certificate for any website, and your browser would trust it. It’s a castle with 150 doors. ...
Just finished my keynote (which you can watch here) and am looking forward to hanging out with my team tonight. There’s still a healthy amount of things to check out in the reading list today! [blog] Day 1 at Google Cloud Next 25 recap. Day one was amazing, day two will be more of the same. Get a good roundup here. [article] Future of Platform Engineering Is About Much More Than AI. That’s true. I actually think we showed off the future of platform engineering yesterday with the vertically integrated cloud IDP from Google Cloud. ...
After eight days in Las Vegas (gulp!), I’m heading home. It’s been a memorable and exhausting week. I wouldn’t trade our cloud platform for anyone else’s, and our team here is second to none. What a privilege to get to work with these cats. [blog] Vibe Coding: Revolution or Reckless Abandon? Another banger from Addy who explains the good and bad of vibe coding. Read this for some excellent advice on how to approach it. ...
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Cloudflare plays a significant role in supporting the Internet’s infrastructure. As a reverse proxy by approximately 20% of all websites, we sit directly in the request path between users and the origin, helping to improve performance, security, and reliability at scale. Beyond that, our global network powers services like delivery, Workers, and R2 — making Cloudflare not just a passive intermediary, but an active platform for delivering and hosting content across the Internet. Since Cloudflare’s launch in 2010, we have collaborated with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a US-based clearinghouse for reporting child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and are committed to doing what we can to support identification and removal of CSAM content. ...