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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.
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2025: Season 4

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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Internet Insights with Cloudflare Radar: New TLD Metrics, Certificate Transparency, and Data Explorer
In this second part of episode #109, 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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....
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 —...
How Cloudflare handles privacy certifications (and why Containers matter to developers)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...

2024: Season 3

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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...
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The hardware that powers Cloudflare: AI-capable Gen 12 servers and more
Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare’s Head of Hardware Engineering, Syona Sarma, for a discussion on Cloudflare’s latest Generation 12 hardware innovations, broadcast from the Lisbon office. As Cloudflare expands its global network across over 330...
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Cloudflare Radar’s 2024 Internet Year in Review
Explore the worldwide trends that shaped the Internet with Cloudflare Radar’s 2024 Internet Year in Review. Join Host João Tomé and Cloudflare Head of Data Insight, David Belson as they look at Internet trends and patterns across 2024. We also discuss...
How Cloudflare helped with global election cybersecurity
This week, we present an episode on elections from an Internet and cybersecurity perspective, given that 2024 has been considered the “year of elections.” Over 70 national elections took place, impacting more than half of the world’s population. Host...
The future of content with AI technology with Nicholas Thompson
This week, host João Tomé is at Web Summit, one of the world's largest technology conferences held in Lisbon, Portugal with over 70,000 attendees. He is joined by guest Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic and former editor-in-chief of Wired. In...
How building Cloudflare with Cloudflare helps developers
Celso Martinho is a Senior Director of Engineering at Cloudflare. He works across multiple teams from Radar to Workers AI in our new Cloudflare Lisbon offices. In this conversation, host Joao Tome and Celso discuss the rapid growth of Cloudflare...
Q3 DDoS Threat Report and the Grand Opening of Cloudflare Lisbon
This Week in NET reviews Cloudflare’s latest Q3 DDoS attacks report with Manish Arora, Senior Manager of Engineering. Released quarterly, these reports provide an in-depth analysis of the DDoS threat landscape as observed across the Cloudflare...
Why defeating patent trolls matters
This week, the show is dedicated to why defeating patent trolls matters. Host João Tomé discusses the completion of the long running Sable patent troll trial and why Sable turned over all of its patents to the public. Joining him are Cloudflare's...
Birthday Week 2024: Behind-the-scenes with Project Management
Host João Tomé is joined by Reagan Russell, Senior Manager of Project Management, who shares what it’s like to organize and plan an innovation week where Cloudflare announces numerous products and features. We discuss how teams across the company —...
Birthday Week 2024: Behind-the-scenes with Design
In this week’s episode, we look at the behind-the-scenes of our main innovation week of the year, Birthday Week. Host João Tomé is joined by Kari Linder, Principal Visual Communications Design Lead and she shares about the inspiration and creation...
Birthday Week 2024 Recap: AI Audit, Speed Brain, Developer Tools and more!
In this week’s episode, we recap our main innovation week of the year, Birthday Week, and its many announcements. Host João Tomé is joined by Brendan Irvine-Broque (Group Product Manager) and Kelly May Johnston (Director, Product Management). We dive...
The history of Cloudflare's Birthday Weeks and AI innovation with Matthew Prince
In this special episode for our Birthday Week 2024, we discuss how Cloudflare’s Birthday Weeks came to be and how they inspire a series of innovation weeks full of announcements each year. Host João Tomé is joined by Matthew Prince, Cloudflare’s...
CTO Perspectives on the Cyber Threat Landscape
Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare Field CTO, John Engates for a comprehensive episode of "This Week in NET". As Cloudflare's annual Birthday Week approaches, get an exclusive preview of the upcoming innovation announcements and how the company...
Paris 2024 Olympics recap: Internet trends, cyber threats, and in-person impressions
In this week’s episode, we talk about the Paris 2024 Olympics Internet trends, and also about the experiences of our 60 interns this summer. Host João Tomé is joined by Michelle Zatlyn, Cloudflare’s Co-founder, President and COO. Michelle was in Paris...
Disinformation Campaigns, Resiliency and Attack Trends with Simon Gibson
On this episode of "This Week in Net," we're joined by Simon Gibson, Principal Security Architect at Navy Federal Credit Union, to discuss critical cybersecurity issues. We'll explore disinformation campaigns, emerging attack trends, and the often...
AI, Democracy and The Evolution of Internet Security with Bruce Schneier
In this episode, host Joao Tome and cryptographer and security technologist and public policy lecturer, Bruce Schneier discuss the evolving landscape of Internet security. They explore AI-related cybersecurity risks, the impact of new technologies on...
Social media threats and regulation
From our San Francisco headquarters, we sit down with Jenny Reich, a Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Law Center on National Security. As an expert in social media law, Jenny examines social media's impact on misinformation,...
Let's //Get\ Technical: Blocking AI bots and crawlers for free to make a safer Internet
In this week’s episode, we go a bit technical in our segment “Let’s //Get\ Technical,” featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. We discuss AI bot and crawlers, elections and more. Host João Tomé and John Graham-Cumming begin by explaining how...
Leaked passwords, no passwords, and AI generated captions for video
In this week’s episode, we explore the realm of passwords, leaked passwords, two-factor authentication (2FA), and also AI generated captions for video. Host João Tomé is joined by Garrett Galow, Director of Product at Cloudflare, to discuss a recent...
All about application security, firewalls, malware, APIs, and more
In this week’s episode, we explore how Cloudflare handles application security, current trends, vulnerabilities, and future expectations. Host João Tomé is joined by Michael Tremante, Director of Product from our Application Security team. We discuss...
How Cloudforce One thwarted FlyingYeti's campaign targeting Ukraine (and what is Cloudforce One)
In this week’s episode, we have a segment about how we thwarted a threat campaign targeting Ukraine and explain what our team, Cloudforce One, does. Host João Tomé is joined by Blake Darché, Head of Cloudforce One. First, we discuss how Cloudforce One...
Alissa Starzak on Internet regulation and election security
In this week’s episode, we feature a segment all about policy, Internet regulation, and the 10th anniversary of our Project Galileo. Host João Tomé is joined by Alissa Starzak, Global Head of Policy at Cloudflare, to discuss policy and regulation in...
Let's //Get\ Technical: 50 years of TCP, Taylor Swift tour wristbands tech, and more
In this week’s episode, we have the segment we call “Let’s //Get\ Technical,” featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. Host João Tomé and John Graham-Cumming start by celebrating the 50 years of the “TCP paper.” In May 1974, the IEEE (Institute of...
This Week in NET: 50th Anniversary of the TCP Paper
This is a special feature that celebrates the 50 years of the “TCP paper.” We asked a few questions to three of our team members who are experts in protocols about why the TCP protocol is important for what the Internet has become, its evolution over...
Teamwork for Internet security: Rapid response & compliance
In this episode, recorded in our San Francisco office, join us as we talk about the dynamic world of security and compliance at Cloudflare. Host João Tomé is joined by two guests. First, we have Ranee Bray, Chief of Staff of our Security Team,...
Inside RSA Conference & jam.dev (a bug-fixing tool powered by Cloudflare)
This week, host João Tomé heads to San Francisco for the cybersecurity RSA Conference (May 6-9, 2024). First, we gather insights from attendees, ranging from a cybersecurity student on the brink of graduation to seasoned managers and experts. We also...
Internet disruptions from cable failures to technical issues (and an RSA teaser)
In this week's episode, we discuss Internet disruptions. Host João Tomé (based in Lisbon, Portugal) is joined by our Head of Data Insights, David Belson, based in Boston. We discuss our recent Q1 2024 Internet disruption summary blog post. There were...
DDoS report, certificate changes, QR phishing, and more
In this week's episode, we discuss different topics from blogs that we published in the previous couple of weeks, right after our Developer Week 2024. Host João Tomé is joined by our Field CTO, Trey Guinn, based in San Francisco. We discuss our most...
Developer Week 2024 edition. AI, GA, and deep dives
In this week's episode, we have a special edition all about Cloudflare’s second innovation week of the year, Developer Week. Host João Tomé is joined by our Product wizards Rita Kozlov and Phillip Jones. We discuss the week's key announcements,...
Email security in the AI era and a Developer Week teaser
In this week's episode, we discuss email security with one of our security leaders, Oren Falkowitz. Since Developer Week is approaching on April 1, 2024, we also include a teaser with Rita Kozlov. João Tomé and Oren begin by examining a blog post...
Let's //Get\ Technical: randomness, attacks on AI, and undersea cable failures in Africa
In this week's episode, we premiere a new segment called "Let's //Get\ Technical," featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming, who returns to the show. João Tomé and John discuss the importance of randomness in securing the Internet for encryption. They...
2024 Security Week edition. AI, networks, applications, and more
In this week's episode, we have a special edition all about Cloudflare’s first innovation week of the year, Security Week. João Tomé and Cloudflare's CSO Grant Bourzikas discuss the week's key announcements. Topics include AI opportunities and risks,...
Developers, new AI models and a Security Week teaser
In this week's episode, we dive into Cloudflare’s developer community, AI models, and offer a sneak peek at Security Week. João Tomé chats with Verónica Marin about the Developer Experience team. We celebrate our Developers Discord server hitting...
All about privacy, Europe’s GDPR and Digital Services Act
In this week's program, we talk about Cloudflare’s privacy perspective. João Tomé is joined by Emily Hancock, Cloudflare’s Chief Privacy Officer. We discuss the importance of privacy in the Internet age and its evolution. Our recent blog post reflects...
Security incident response (Code Red) with Grant Bourzikas
In this week's program, we talk about Cloudflare’s security. João Tomé is joined by Grant Bourzikas, Cloudflare’s CSO. We discuss how we dealt with a Thanksgiving 2023 security incident related to an October 2023 Okta compromise that Cloudflare had...

2023: Season 2

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All about Cloudflare Hardware, Impact, and happy holidays!
In this week's program, we go a bit longer than usual to talk about Cloudflare’s hardware, our Impact Report, and the importance of our blog, but also to wish everyone happy holidays. João Tomé initially is joined by Rebecca Weekly, our VP of...
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Cloudflare 2023 Year in Review special edition
In this week's program, we discuss some of the trends from our Cloudflare Radar 2023 Year in Review. João Tomé is joined by our Head of Data Insights, David Belson, to shed light on the Internet's patterns and trends as observed through Cloudflare's...
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Exploring AI development one year after ChatGPT and analyzing Cyber Week insights
In this week's program, João Tomé is joined by Michelle Chen, Chief of Staff of our Emerging Technology and Incubation team. We go over how ChatGPT is celebrating one year and the recent turmoil — on December 2, 2022 (you can check that episode here),...
Elections in 2024, Thanksgiving trends and AI inference in 100 cities
In this week's program, João Tomé discusses with Jocelyn Woolbright from our Public Policy team how Cloudflare is assisting in safeguarding numerous upcoming elections in 2024. We also share Thanksgiving trends and stories. We travel to London to...
Workers AI, Email Routing, and ZX Spectrum retro computing
After a special episode about the Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage, which you can check here, this week's program features insights from two speakers at the Web Summit conference held this week in Lisbon, Portugal. Cassie Kozyrkov, former...
Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics outage
In this special episode, João Tomé is joined by Nitin Rao, Cloudflare’s Interim CPO, to discuss the Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics outage. The incident lasted from November 2 until November 4, impacting several customers. We explain how one of...
Okta compromise (and HAR sanitizer for all) special edition
This is a special episode of “This Week in NET” dedicated to the recent Okta compromise, which has been making headlines and affecting Okta and its customers, including Cloudflare. Since it's October 31, 2023, we're also sharing some Halloween...
Cyber attacks in the Israel-Hamas war, DDoS threat trends, and Internet disruptions
In this week's program, João Tomé is initially joined by Omer Yoachimik (based in London, UK), Cloudflare’s product manager for DDoS Protection and Security Reporting. They discuss two blog posts written this week related to cyberattacks in the...
Network flow monitoring, Birthday Week update, and a bit of “evenly distributed future”
In this week's program, we mix it up with different topics and different guests. First, we do a recap and update on our Birthday Week 2023, which was three week ago. Dina Kozlov, a product manager, helps put some highlights into context, and popular...
Uncovering the HTTP/2 Zero-Day vulnerability, and Israel-Gaza Internet patterns
In this week's program, João Tomé is joined by two Cloudflare guests based in Texas (US) and London (UK): John Engates (Field CTO) and Lucas Pardue (systems engineer and HTTP expert). The main focus is explaining what the recently discovered HTTP/2...
Best of: One year of This Week in NET
In this week's program, we're taking a look back at one year of episodes in our #40 episode. We've got highlights from innovation weeks covering developers, our Supercloud, CIOs, general impact, security, and speed. Plus, we'll share some historical...
Birthday Week 2023 edition. AI, connectivity cloud, and so much more
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
A Birthday Week teaser, (online) waiting rooms, and typo traps
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
A bit of Cloudflare’s Birthday Week history, Tunnels, and welcome Michele Yetman
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
Data Protection everywhere, application security, and an iPhone exploit to avoid
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
2023 phishing trends, useful intern projects, and Cloudflare's lava lamp history
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
BGP hijack detection, exploited vulnerabilities, and how we build our products
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
Unveiling new Internet trending and routing tools, disruptions, and Kevin Mitnick
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
How Minitel put France online 40 years ago (and a glimpse into Threads)
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
Speed, Eurovision voting triumph, and a bit of history: Alan Turing 101
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
Cloudflare’s Speed Week. Where we’re going, we need speed
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
Cloudflare's Speed Week teaser, APIs, exam-related shutdowns and WarGames 40 years-in
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
Nine years of protecting civil society online, HTTP/3 usage trends, and a bit of computing history
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
This Week in Net: Cloudflare's farewell to Railgun (and its relevance)
This Week in Net: Cloudflare's farewell to Railgun (and its relevance) Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet....
This Week in Net: Developer opportunities, new AI-driven programmers (and a bit of TCP)
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
This Week in Net: Developer Week (AI included) special edition
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
This Week in Net: How we build stuff, privacy, security and “May the 4th”
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
This Week in Net: Security, speed (the importance of latency) and Easter trends
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
This Week in Net: An outage in the UK, the importance of rollbacks for developers, and how we’re hiring!
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
This Week in Net: From DDoS attacks in Australia to helping protect personal information in the cloud
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
This Week in Net: Zero Trust speed, security and the quantum state of a TCP port
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
This Week in Net: Security Week special edition
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
This Week in Net: From Rust to Python and a glimpse on what to expect from Security Week
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other elsewhere, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
This Week in Net: One year of war in Ukraine, Fediverse on Cloudflare and Chief Zero Trust Officer
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other elsewhere, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
This Week in Net: Bug bounties, attacks on health organizations and Groundhog Day
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other elsewhere, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
This Week in Net: Deep dive, Internet disruptions & Data Privacy Day
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's program, we talk about our a deep dive...
This Week in Net: CIO Week special edition
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's program, we talk about our first Innovation...

2022: Season 1

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This Week in Net: Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year in Review & DNS records (Xmas edition)
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. This is our last This Week in Net of 2022. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's...
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This Week in Net: Impact Week 2022 special edition
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. And this week we have a special edition about Cloudflare Impact Week 2022! João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John...
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This Week in Net: Making the Cloudflare WAF smarter (and Impact Week intro)
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week’s program, we talk about South Korea (we have...
This Week in Net: New pricing, annual plans and an AI ChatGPT test
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. This week’s program goes through how we announced this...
This Week in Net: From deep dives to trends (Thanksgiving edition)
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week’s program we highlight how Cloudflare was...
This Week in Net: The Supercloud & Developers Week 2022
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. This week’s program is a special edition to talk about our...
This Week in Net: 2022 US midterm elections (and Developer Week intro)
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week’s program we explain how we helped protect...
This Week in Net From Web Summit (Lisbon, Portugal)
This week John Graham-Cumming and João Tomé were at Web Summit 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal. Tune in for highlights from the event — as well as a teaser of our forthcoming interview with TED founder, Chris Anderson. And we also go over the blog posts of...
This Week in Net: Privacy Gateway, partial outage, Email Routing, and a treat
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week’s program we start to explain why Privacy...
This Week in Net: Why DDoS attacks and BPF tails are important
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. In this week’s program, João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming, with two topics at hand. We start...
This Week in Net: From post-quantum to one-click TLS
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. In this week’s program, João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. We’ll start on how Cloudflare is...
🚚 This Week in Net: GA Week edition
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. In this week’s program, we’re doing a special edition about our GA Week when we announced generally available...
🎂 This Week in Net - Birthday Week Edition
It's Cloudflare's Birthday! In this week’s program, we’re doing a special edition of This Week in Net covering Cloudflare's Birthday Week 2022 — featuring a broad array of exciting new announcements, products, and more. João Tomé is presenting and is...

2026: Season 5

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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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Internet Insights with Cloudflare Radar: New TLD Metrics, Certificate Transparency, and Data Explorer
In this second part of episode #109, 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...
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