This Week in NET

Cloudflare’s New CMO Jeff Samuels: Why Brand Wins, Marketers as Context Engineers

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

From Psychologist to Engineer: Sofia Cardita’s Path to Cloudflare

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this Women at Cloudflare segment for Women’s Empowerment Month, Sofia Cardita, Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, shares her journey from clinical p...

Post-Quantum, Deepfakes & Agile SASE: Cloudflare One's Biggest Week

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Warnessa Weaver (Senior Product Manager) and Yumna Moazzam (Senior Product Marketin...

AI Deepfakes & Laptop Farms: Inside the 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Cloudflare threat intelligence experts Brian Carter and Chris Pacey to break down t...

We Rebuilt Next.js with AI in One Week (vinext Explained)

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 Dire...

Code Mode: Giving AI Agents an Entire API in 1,000 Tokens (With Demos)

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 Cl...

Moltworker (for OpenClaw) & Markdown for Agents: Running AI on Cloudflare

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host João Tomé is joined by Celso Martinho, VP of Engineering at Cloudflare, to discuss two major launches: Markdown for Agents and...

Privacy in the AI Age: What's Really Changing in 2026 (with Cloudflare's CPO)

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Emily Hancock, Cloudflare’s Chief Privacy Officer and Data Protection Officer, fo...

Internet Disruptions & Iran’s Shutdown: Cloudflare Radar Insights (Storm in Portugal Included)

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, David Belson — Cloudflare’s Head of Data Insights — joins us to walk through the biggest Internet disruptions of late 2025 and ...

Cloudflare’s 2025 Impact Report and a More Open Internet

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 re...

Record-Breaking DDoS Attacks & the Security Landscape Heading Into 2026

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 Cloudflar...

AI, DDoS, and the Internet in 2025 | Cloudflare Radar Year in Review

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Why Replicate Is Joining Cloudflare — and What It Means for AI Builders

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this short episode of This Week in NET, Craig Dennis, Senior Developer Educator for AI at Cloudflare, explains why Replicate is joining Cloudflare,...

Proactive WAF Vulnerability Protection & Firewall for AI + Multiplayer Chess Demo in ChatGPT

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of This Week in NET, we talk with Daniele Molteni, Director of Product Management for Cloudflare’s WAF, about how Cloudflare respond...

AI, Creators & Agentic Commerce — A Conversation with Cloudflare CSO Stephanie Cohen

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Proactive WAF Vulnerability Protection & Firewall for AI + Multiplayer Chess Demo in ChatGPT

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of This Week in NET, we talk with Daniele Molteni, Director of Product Management for Cloudflare’s WAF, about how Cloudflare respond...

Why the Internet Works (Most of the Time): A Conversation with Tom Strickx

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cloudflare Principal Network Engineer Tom Strickx joins This Week in NET to explain what really keeps the Internet running. From anchors cutting subma...

Internet Insights with Cloudflare Radar: New TLD Metrics, Certificate Transparency, and Data Explorer

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this second part of our previous episode, host João Tomé talks with André Jesus, Systems Engineer at Cloudflare and front-end engineer on the Ra...

All about Internet Measurement, Resilience, and Transparency

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host João Tomé talks with Marwan Fayed, Principal Scientist and Research Lead at Cloudflare, about the science behind understanding...

Cloudflare Connect 2025 Highlights: Common & Company

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode, host João Tomé reports from Cloudflare Connect Las Vegas (October 13-16) — the company’s first-ever global event, bring...

Cloudflare Connect Las Vegas & The Launch of AI Avenue

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Leslie Hasvold, Senior Director of Corporate Events, Programs & Customer Advoca...

Cloudflare Birthday Week 2025 Recap: AI, Security & Internet Insights

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Cloudflare turns 15: The origin story with Michelle Zatlyn and Matthew Prince

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

Cloudflare Birthday Week 2025: What to Expect?

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 r...

Everything Announced at Cloudflare AI Week 2025

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host João Tomé is joined by Kenny Johnson (Principal Product Manager) to review everything announced during the week — across Clo...

Building a Serverless Social App with ATProto & Cloudflare Workers

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 re...

100 episodes with our guests - the best moments of this Week in NET

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

Celebrating 100 episodes with John Graham-Cumming and friends

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this special conversation, João Tomé sits down with John Graham-Cumming, Cloudflare’s former CTO and current board member, to look back at Clou...

The Future of Content and AI: Pay per Crawl and What’s Next

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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-ba...

AI writes code: Kenton Varda on trust, review, and why Workers is the best AI platform

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Cloudflare: Growth, culture & AI in recruitment (and 11 years of Project Galileo)

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host João Tomé is joined in Cloudflare’s Lisbon office by Scott Tomtania, a seasoned recruiting leader at Cloudflare, to discuss ...

Verifying bots and agents with cryptography in the age of AI

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host João Tomé is joined in Cloudflare’s Lisbon office by Cloudflare Senior Research Engineer Thibault Meunier to explore a new p...

Building MCP servers on Cloudflare (hands-on demo included)

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Protoc...

Geoff Huston: The Internet’s Past, Present, and Future

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 H...

DDoS attacks up 358%: Early 2025 breakdown

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ti...

Internet disruptions: Portugal & Spain blackouts + more

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's episode, we talk about Internet disruptions — focusing on the recent major power and Internet blackout, while also reviewing the broa...

Building agents and the future for developers

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's episode, we continue exploring AI, agents, developers, and how AI is helping developers, and turning more people into developers. For t...

All about Cloudflare’s Developer Week 2025 (AI, vibe coding, agents, and more)

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

A Developer Week teaser, building with Cloudflare, and a tribute to Dave Täht

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

All about Security Week 2025

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Dunbrac...

Security Week teaser and Lisbon’s waves of entropy

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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. Directo...

2025 Internet Predictions (AI Included!)

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

The hardware that powers Cloudflare: AI-capable Gen 12 servers and more

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare’s Head of Hardware Engineering, Syona Sarma, for a discussion on Cloudflare’s latest Generation 12 hardware i...

Cloudflare Radar’s 2024 Internet Year in Review

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Explore the worldwide trends that shaped the Internet with Cloudflare Radar’s 2024 Internet Year in Review. Join Host João Tomé and Cloudflare Hea...

Bruce Schneier: AI, Democracy and the Future of Internet Security

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Renowned cryptographer, public policy expert and security technologist Bruce Schneier joins João Tomé to explore the evolving Internet security land...

Jenny Reich: Social Media, Cybersecurity and the Future of Online Regulation

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From Cloudflare's San Francisco headquarters, João Tomé interviews Jenny Reich, a Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Law Center on Natio...

Simon Gibson: Tackling Disinformation, AI Threats and Cybersecurity Resilience

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of This Week in NET, Simon Gibson, Principal Security Architect at Navy Federal Credit Union, joins João Tomé to address disinformat...

Defeating Patent Trolls: Cloudflare’s Fight for Innovation

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode focuses entirely on why defeating patent trolls matters, featuring insights from João Tomé and Cloudflare legal experts Emily Terrell, ...

Matthew Prince: Content Creators vs. AI and the Origins of Cloudflare's Birthday Week

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cloudflare CEO and Co-founder Matthew Prince joins João Tomé to celebrate the origins of Cloudflare’s annual Birthday Week, recorded in their Lisb...

Michelle Zatlyn: Cyber Trends from the Paris Olympics

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Michelle Zatlyn, Cloudflare's co-founder, president and COO, discusses the impact of the Paris Olympics on Internet trends, traffic a...

Cloudforce One: Tackling Emerging Threat Actors with Blake Darché

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In This Week in NET, Blake Darché, Head of Cloudforce One, joins João Tomé to discuss Cloudflare’s elite threat operations team and much more. Th...

Internet Regulation & Election Security: Insights with Cloudflare’s Alissa Starzak

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Host João Tomé welcomes Alissa Starzak, Global Head of Policy at Cloudflare, to discuss Internet regulation, election security and policy challenges...

How Cloudflare helped with global election cybersecurity

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we present an episode on elections from an Internet and cybersecurity perspective, given that 2024 has been considered the “year of elect...

John Graham-Cumming: Getting Technical with TCP, AI and Taylor Swift

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming for a deep dive into tech milestones and innovations. They’ll celebrate the 50th annive...

Ranee Bray & Ling Wu: Exploring Internet Security and Compliance Challenges

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Host João Tomé welcomes two expert guests for an insightful discussion on tackling security challenges. Ranee Bray, Chief of Staff for Cloudflare’...

No browsers left behind: DDoS Threats, QR Phishing & Cloudflare’s Foundation DNS with Trey Guinn

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host João Tomé chats with Trey Guinn, Cloudflare’s Field Chief Technology Officer, about the latest DDoS attacks and global cyber...

Privacy in the Internet Age with Emily Hancock

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join host João Tomé and Emily Hancock, Cloudflare’s Chief Privacy Officer, as they explore the critical importance of privacy in today’s Interne...

The future of content with AI technology with Nicholas Thompson

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

Welcome to This Week in NET

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dive into the pulse of the Internet with This Week in NET. A weekly roundup of Cloudflare's latest news, innovations and the most impactful developmen...

How building Cloudflare with Cloudflare helps developers

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Q3 DDoS Threat Report and the Grand Opening of Cloudflare Lisbon

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This Week in NET reviews Cloudflare’s latest Q3 DDoS attacks report with Manish Arora, Senior Manager of Engineering. Released quarterly, these repo...

Birthday Week 2024: Behind-the-scenes with Project Management

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 wee...

Birthday Week 2024: Behind-the-scenes with Design

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Birthday Week 2024 Recap: AI Audit, Speed Brain, Developer Tools and more!

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Bren...

CTO Perspectives on the Cyber Threat Landscape

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Let's //Get\ Technical: Blocking AI bots and crawlers for free to make a safer Internet

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 b...

Leaked passwords, no passwords, and AI generated captions for video

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, we explore the realm of passwords, leaked passwords, two-factor authentication (2FA), and also AI generated captions for vid...

All about application security, firewalls, malware, APIs, and more

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, we explore how Cloudflare handles application security, current trends, vulnerabilities, and future expectations. Host João...

This Week in NET: 50th Anniversary of the TCP Paper

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Inside RSA Conference & jam.dev (a bug-fixing tool powered by Cloudflare)

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, host João Tomé heads to San Francisco for the cybersecurity RSA Conference (May 6-9, 2024). First, we gather insights from attendees, ran...

Internet disruptions from cable failures to technical issues (and an RSA teaser)

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Be...

Developer Week 2024 edition. AI, GA, and deep dives

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 joi...

Email security in the AI era and a Developer Week teaser

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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, 20...

Let's //Get\ Technical: randomness, attacks on AI, and undersea cable failures in Africa

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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. Jo...

2024 Security Week edition. AI, networks, applications, and more

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Cloudfla...

Developers, new AI models and a Security Week teaser

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Ve...

All about privacy, Europe’s GDPR and Digital Services Act

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's program, we talk about Cloudflare’s privacy perspective. João Tomé is joined by Emily Hancock, Cloudflare’s Chief Privacy Officer...

Security incident response (Code Red) with Grant Bourzikas

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

All about Cloudflare Hardware, Impact, and happy holidays!

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 al...

Cloudflare 2023 Year in Review special edition

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Insight...

Exploring AI development one year after ChatGPT and analyzing Cyber Week insights

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Elections in 2024, Thanksgiving trends and AI inference in 100 cities

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's program, João Tomé discusses with Jocelyn Woolbright from our Public Policy team how Cloudflare is assisting in safeguarding numerous...

Workers AI, Email Routing, and ZX Spectrum retro computing

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After a special episode about the Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage, which you can check here, this week's program features insights from ...

Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics outage

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode, João Tomé is joined by Nitin Rao, Cloudflare’s Interim CPO, to discuss the Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics outage....

Okta compromise (and HAR sanitizer for all) special edition

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 it...

Cyber attacks in the Israel-Hamas war, DDoS threat trends, and Internet disruptions

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's program, João Tomé is initially joined by Omer Yoachimik (based in London, UK), Cloudflare’s product manager for DDoS Protection an...

Network flow monitoring, Birthday Week update, and a bit of “evenly distributed future”

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Uncovering the HTTP/2 Zero-Day vulnerability, and Israel-Gaza Internet patterns

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Best of: One year of This Week in NET

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 devel...