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Building AI Infra at Cloudflare - Dane Knecht (CTO, Cloudflare)
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 Where to Find Dane:
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dknecht/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dknecht/)
* Twitter: https://x.com/dok2001 (https://x.com/dok2001)
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4 Jun 2025
Identity in the Age of AI - Arnab Bose (Chief Product Officer, Okta Platform)
Arnab Bose, Chief Product Officer at Okta Platform, discusses the critical role of identity and security for enterprises adopting AI agents in their workflows in an interview with Shomik Ghosh.
14 May 2025
Building AI Products at Amazon & Amazon Q - Anoop Deoras (Director, AWS Agentic AI)
Large tech companies have been rapidly embracing AI. Amazon in particular has been innovating rapidly with many recent announcements (Nova, Tranium 3, Bedrock Agents, & more), this episode dives into Amazon Q and Agentic AI at Amazon / AWS.
Anoop Deoras is the Director of AWS Agentic AI and previously was a Principal Technologist at Netflix. In this episode we dive into the following areas:
* The progression of AI over ~20 years
* Building recommendation engines before Transformers
* How AWS approached building Amazon Q
* State of Coding Agents Today and Biggest Challenges around CodeGen
* How AI Can Handle Large Scale Codebase Migrations
* What Agents Change Compared to Current Codegen
* Memory and Future Agentic Applications
Where to Find Anoop:
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anoopdeoras/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anoopdeoras/)
* Twitter: https://x.com/adeoras (https://x.com/adeoras)
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* Software Snack Bites Podcast: Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/software-snack-bites/id1669999483), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/5voKCX3gQXRqGPZm1z29Ot?si=lK4W6WQCTjmWIQhWbEGIWw&nd=1), Google (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkuc3Vic3RhY2suY29tL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8yOTk3NTEucnNz).
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Inside a recent episode
Building AI Infra at Cloudflare - Dane Knecht (CTO, Cloudflare)
Published 31 Oct 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You're always going to be able to maintain those, those like low costs. Yeah, I mean, because we built from a freemium model up, we had to design things to be just ultra -cost effective. Otherwise, you just can't afford to do a freemium model like we do. And this goes back, you know, I mean, when we decided to give SSL a wave for everyone for free and double the encrypted internet overnight, you know, literally there was a metric that, you know, we had where we had to get a cost per request down below a certain price. We had to be able to terminate SSL at a certain price point, and we had to be able to manage millions of surds, and kind of once we could drive that cost down. […]
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