This Week in NET

In this episode of This Week in NET, Vinti Batiste, VP of Sales for US Enterprise at Cloudflare, shares her 30-year journey across IBM, Cisco, and now Cloudflare — and what it really means to be in enterprise sales.

Vinti talks about growing Cloudflare's enterprise business 80% year over year, the moment Michelle Zatlyn walked into her first all-hands, how she uses AI to prepare for customer meetings, and why sales is really a math problem.

This conversation is part of the Women of Cloudflare series.

In this special Agents Week edition of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Ming Lu (Principal Product Manager) and Anni Wang (Product Manager) to recap Cloudflare’s first-ever Agents Week.

The conversation explores why the Internet and the cloud were not designed for an AI-agent world, and what infrastructure needs to change as software agents begin generating code, running workflows, and interacting directly with online services.

Ming and Anni walk through several announcements from Cloudflare’s Agents Week, including new tools for agent infrastructure, memory, developer workflows, AI Gateway, email, artifacts, browser automation, security, and agent-ready websites.

At the end of the episode, there is also a fun recap video made by Zeke Sikelianos (Principal Systems Engineer, Developer Relations), using a deepfake version of himself to summarize the week’s announcements through Thursday.

Check all the blogs and CFTV videos on our Agents Week Hub

0:27 — Intro: special Agents Week edition
0:41 — Ming Lu and Anni Wang join the show
3:13 — Main takeaway from Agents Week
6:40 — Monday: Agent Cloud, sandboxes, containers, and CLI
11:34 — Tuesday: security, Cloudflare Mesh, and enterprise MCP
17:02 — Wednesday: Project Think, browser automation, and Agent Lee
24:23 — Thursday: Email Service, Artifacts, and the AI platform
31:53 — Friday: feature flags, agent readiness, shared compression, and memory
40:15 — What’s still coming after Friday
42:04 — Feedback and reaction from the week
45:23 — Zeke Sikelianos deepfake recap video

In this World Quantum Day special edition of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Bas Westerbaan (Principal Research Engineer) and Sharon Goldberg (Senior Director, Product) to explain why the timeline for post-quantum cryptography may be arriving sooner than expected.

Recent research suggests the number of qubits required to break today’s encryption could fall dramatically, accelerating the urgency for companies and the Internet ecosystem to migrate to post-quantum security. Google has set a 2029 migration target, and Cloudflare is working toward a similar timeline.

Bas, who has spent years deploying post-quantum cryptography at Cloudflare, explains why the shift from theoretical risk to practical planning is happening now, what “Q-Day” would actually mean, and why upgrading the Internet’s cryptography is one of the largest coordinated security transitions ever attempted.

The episode also covers the difference between post-quantum encryption and authentication, how quantum computers work, and what organisations should start doing today to prepare.

Check the Cloudflare Blog:
blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap

Timestamps
0:00 — Cold open: “It’s quite a shock”
0:40 — World Quantum Day and why this matters now
2:30 — Sharon Goldberg: the big picture of post-quantum cryptography
4:20 — Why Cloudflare is targeting 2029
7:00 — Encryption vs authentication and the “harvest now, decrypt later” risk
10:50 — Bas Westerbaan: background and path into cryptography
18:30 — How quantum computers actually work
23:40 — Why RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography are vulnerable
28:10 — Why the quantum timeline may be accelerating
33:00 — Cloudflare’s post-quantum deployment progress
40:20 — How AI could help the industry migrate faster
48:10 — What companies should start doing today
58:00 — Quick-fire round and the Internet in a post-quantum world

In this short edition of This Week in NET, host João Tomé joins from the island of Madeira for a quick preview of Cloudflare’s first Agents Week.

João is joined by Ming Lu (Principal Product Manager at Replicate) and Anni Wang (Product Manager) to discuss why AI agents are becoming one of the biggest shifts happening on the Internet right now.

They explore how agents are starting to generate more code than developers, why the Internet is moving toward agents interacting with other agents, and what infrastructure is needed to build and run them securely at scale.

The conversation also previews some of the themes of Agents Week: building and running agents on Cloudflare’s platform, securing agent access to tools and data, managing the large volumes of data agents generate, and how the web itself may change as machines increasingly consume content.

Check our Agents Week site:
cloudflare.com/agents-week 

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Timestamps
01:11 — Meet Ming Lu and Anni Wang
01:55 — What Agents Week is and why Cloudflare launched it
02:44 — Why agents are becoming a major shift for the Internet
04:33 — Why agents need new infrastructure for compute, storage, and security
05:02 — The rise of personal and enterprise agents
06:43 — Running agents on Cloudflare’s platform
07:34 — Security challenges when agents access tools and data
09:13 — How agents may change how the web is consumed
10:23 — Managing the massive data agents generate
11:21 — Working with multiple AI models and switching between them
12:43 — What it’s like launching a Cloudflare Innovation Week
14:07 — The energy and chaos of building announcements
14:52 — Final thoughts and what to expect next week

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Matt “TK” Taylor (Senior Product Manager) and Matt Kane (Senior Principal Systems Engineer) to discuss EmDash, a new CMS launched by Cloudflare as a modern, serverless alternative inspired by WordPress.

Built on Astro and designed for today’s developer workflows, EmDash combines the familiarity of traditional CMS platforms with a modern architecture: serverless deployment, TypeScript throughout, and a plugin system designed to solve one of WordPress’s biggest challenges — security.

The conversation explores why plugin vulnerabilities account for the vast majority of WordPress security issues, and how EmDash addresses that by running plugins in sandboxed Worker isolates with tightly scoped permissions. Matt and Matt also discuss how AI agents were used during development, why the project is MIT licensed, and how the CMS is designed from the ground up to work with AI agents through MCP and structured content.

Later in the episode we see the EmDash playground, how WordPress sites can be imported in minutes, and how developers can start building plugins and extensions today.

More info:
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

Try out the EmDash admin interface here: https://emdashcms.com/playground 

⏱️ Timestamps

00:45 — Intro: EmDash launch and April 1 announcement
02:09 — What EmDash is and why Cloudflare built it
04:07 — Why WordPress architecture struggles on modern infrastructure
06:30 — Scaling storage, media, and modern hosting models
07:00 — The plugin ecosystem: WordPress’s strength and weakness
08:19 — Matt Taylor’s background in CMS and media platforms
09:03 — Matt Kane’s work with Astro and Gatsby
11:21 — How the idea for EmDash started inside the Astro community
13:36 — Building the CMS with AI agents
17:21 — Sandbox plugins with Cloudflare Dynamic Workers
19:17 — Solving the plugin security problem
22:16 — Why EmDash is MIT licensed
25:52 — Early feedback from Yoast and the WordPress ecosystem
27:05 — Designing a CMS for AI agents and MCP workflows
30:43 — Demo: the EmDash playground and dashboard
33:22 — Flexible content types and built-in SEO
35:05 — Editing directly on the live page
37:18 — Early community feedback and plugins already appearing
39:03 — x402 and the future of agent-era monetization
40:17 — SEO architecture and plugin extensibility
41:43 — What’s next for EmDash