Cloudflare has retained exceptional talent, continued shipping products at a rapid scale even as they’ve grown to a $80B+ valuation, and are positioned as a leading developer platform for the agentic era with Workers. One of the key individuals who has guided this effort has been Dane Knecht, CTO at Cloudflare and the first PM hired when < 20 employee. Before being CTO, Dane was directly responsible for leading new products and incubation of which Workers was a key cornerstone. If you are excited to learn about agentic infrastructure, maintaining culture at scale, and the how Workers was built brick by brick, this is the pod for you!

In this episode we dive into the following areas:

Lava Lamps!
Cloudflare’s Culture from Day 1
Enterprise & Individual Developer Focus
Deep Dive into the Workers Platform
Building Agents on Workers
Serverless vs Long Running Agents
Durable Objects (and how it was almost named Agents!)
Cloudflare Scheduling and Optimization Engine Under the Hood
Where Agent Development is Headed

Where to Find Dane:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dknecht/
Twitter: https://x.com/dok2001

Where to Find Shomik:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/
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