This Week in NET

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Chema Alonso, Vice President and Head of International Development at Cloudflare. Chema shares how a 1998 paper on SQL injection launched his career in hacking, his path from running a...

In this episode of This Week in NET, Heather Orsi, Director of Strategic Finance & Investor Relations at Cloudflare, shares her unusual career path across finance, startups, and tech, and what it means to communicate Cloudflare’s story to investors...

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Cloudflare’s new Chief Marketing Officer, Jeff Samuels, to explore how marketing is evolving in the age of AI. We discuss why brand still wins, how marketers are becoming “context...

In this Women at Cloudflare segment for Women’s Empowerment Month, Sofia Cardita, Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, shares her journey from clinical psychology to engineering. Sofia explains how she transitioned into tech through self-learning and...

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Warnessa Weaver (Senior Product Manager) and Yumna Moazzam (Senior Product Marketing Manager) to break down Cloudflare’s SASE blog takeover week and what it means for enterprise...

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Cloudflare threat intelligence experts Brian Carter and Chris Peacey to break down the 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report and what it reveals about today’s cyber threat landscape. We discuss...

In this episode of This Week in NET (the second this week focused on building with AI), host João Tomé is joined by Steve Faulkner, Engineering Director at Cloudflare, to discuss how he rebuilt a Next.js-compatible framework in just one week using AI....

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Matt Curry to break down Code Mode: a way to give AI agents access to the entire Cloudflare API (2,500+ endpoints) using two tools and roughly \~1,000 tokens of context.  Instead of...

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...

In this first 2026 edition of This Week in NET, João Tomé is joined by Patrick Day from Cloudflare’s Impact & Policy team to break down the recently released Cloudflare Impact Report — including how Cloudflare supports elections, protects journalists,...

In this episode, David Belson — Cloudflare’s Head of Data Insights — joins us to walk through the biggest Internet disruptions of late 2025 and early 2026. At the start, we also highlight several new posts on the Cloudflare Blog: Moltworker, a...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 —...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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) 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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...