Cloudflare: Build for the agent era

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Like Zendesk, innovation is in Cloudflare’s DNA it mirrors our beautifully simple development ethos with the connectivity cloud, a powerful, yet simple-to-implement, end-to-end solution that does all the heavy lifting, so we don’t need to.

Nan Guo, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Zendesk
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Everything needed tobuild secure, performant applications

Fighting infra with “cloud”

"Egress costs just doubled this week — caching not working at edge. Can we fix this by EOD?"
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High Latency!!!!!!~150–250ms RTT per request
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High Latency!!!!!!~150–250ms RTT per request
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High Latency!!!!!!~150–250ms RTT per request
"Origin IP exposed, getting hit with direct DDoS traffic. Need to lock down ASAP."
Bandwidth usage alertYou have exceeded your bandwidth limit for the month.
Bandwidth usage alertYou have exceeded your bandwidth limit for the month.
Summer Intern"I fixed the errors by pushing the env file to production."
"Cache hit ratio just tanked to 12%. Origin egress is 14× normal — this month's bill is going to be brutal."
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Credential stuffing detected142K login attempts from 38K IPs in the last 5 minutes.
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Credential stuffing detected142K login attempts from 38K IPs in the last 5 minutes.
"VPN concentrator pegged at 98% — APAC engineering can't reach staging again."
Sensitive data exfiltration12 customer records pasted into a public AI tool in the last hour.
Employee clicked phishing link. SSO session may be compromised.
MPLS circuit downSingapore ↔ Frankfurt. Carrier ETA: 4–6 hours.

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Fast path to AI adoption

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