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Incubating Infrastructure at Scale (Chat with Dane at Cloudflare)

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Incubating Infrastructure at Scale (Chat with Dane at Cloudflare)

The Infra Pod

2024/08/19
The Infra Pod

The Infra Pod

2024/08/19
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Ian and Tim sat down with Dane (SVP of Emerging Tech and Incubation at Cloudflare) to chat about Cloudflare's journey of incubating emerging infra areas like security and AI, and how it becomes products Cloudflare customers can use at scale.

Highlights

In this episode, Ian and Tim speak with Dane from Cloudflare about how the company identifies, tests, and scales emerging infrastructure technologies—especially at the intersection of security, AI, and edge computing.
02:28
Cloudflare developed zero-trust security starting from an internal need
06:54
Cloudflare invests in products based on demand, not just initial traction
09:10
Failure is celebrated as it leads to learning
16:35
Around 70% of AI companies' traffic is behind Cloudflare, enabling built-in protection for GPUs against DDoS and malicious traffic
23:56
We're in a bundling cycle instead of unbundling, citing security vendor consolidation as an example
31:43
Cloudflare launched R2 with free egress and introduced queues, pipelines, and workflows for edge data management

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How Cloudflare turned edge infrastructure into a global security and speed platform
00:00
What happens inside Cloudflare’s innovation lab—and how ideas go from sketch to customer test in weeks
04:35
Why Cloudflare bets on fast failure instead of picking winners too early
09:10
Can AI run well at the edge? How Cloudflare built tools developers actually use
13:52
Is the edge the new frontier for data privacy—or just another layer in hybrid infrastructure?
18:52
What’s next for bundling? How Cloudflare is redefining the connectivity cloud
26:26

Transcript

Tim Chen: Welcome to yet another Infra Deep Dive again. This is Tim from Essence VC, and Ian, let's go. Ian Livingstone: Hey, this is Ian Livingstone, trying to turn Snyk into a platform. And I couldn't be more excited today to be joined by Dane. Kinect, ...