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, with announcements running through April 11, 2025. There we also mention how developers can now build and deploy remote MCP servers to Cloudflare.

Next, Craig Dennis, Developer Educator at Cloudflare, explains what Workers — our developer platform — is all about, and why even non-developers should try building with it.

We also honor the American network engineer Dave Täht, who passed away this week. Tom Strickx, Principal Network Engineer at Cloudflare, shares how Dave’s contributions helped build a better Internet. Without his engineering and advocacy work, FQ-CoDel wouldn’t exist, and modern low-latency networking, from Wi-Fi and Starlink to video conferencing, would likely be far worse today.

Finally, we round up some recent blog highlights: from an April 1 launch to a deep technical post. And also John Graham-Cumming’s journey from programmer and CTO to joining Cloudflare’s board of directors — Dane Knecht, formerly SVP of Emerging Technology and Incubation, has been named Cloudflare’s new CTO.

Mentioned blog posts:

• Three chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors
• Project Jengo for Sable — final winners!
• A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test
• “You get Instant Purge, and you get Instant Purge!” — all purge methods now available to all customers
• Build and deploy Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to Cloudflare
• Improve your media pipelines with the Images binding for Cloudflare Workers
• Security Week 2025: in review

Follow our Developer Week hub: cloudflare.com/developer-week/