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Build vs. Buy vs. Lease
Build vs. Buy vs. Lease
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Brian Parks shared thisHad a lot of fun last week discussing how Cloudflare is enabling the agentic web and securing AI at the speed of innovation on the main stage at Sydney Connect. TLDR: Agents, agents and more agents. And now this week is Agents Week...follow along here: https://lnkd.in/gPRucFvi
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Brian Parks shared thisLove seeing new startups joining the program! If you're building something, reach out!Brian Parks shared this❤️🔥 human depth has been accepted into Cloudflare for Startups! as we build a professional space where judgment, context, and expertise can move through AI-native workflows, the invisible layers matter just as much as the visible experience: security. performance. reliability. global scale. Cloudflare gives us more room to strengthen that foundation, experiment faster, and build infrastructure that can grow with the complexity of the work we want to support. the goal isn’t simply to make AI interactions faster. it’s to build systems professionals can trust when the work carries nuance, responsibility, and consequence. a stronger foundation for the human layer of AI. grateful to the Cloudflare team for the support! now, back to building. 🛠️
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Brian Parks shared thisThis matters...more and more everyday.Brian Parks shared thisCloudflare just added spend limits to AI Gateway in dollars, not tokens. That detail matters. CFOs do not approve token budgets. Teams do not get paged because they exceeded 14 million input tokens. They get paged when the bill stops making sense. AI cost control has to live in finance language and engineering controls at the same time. If your guardrails only speak tokens, your executives are still blind.
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Brian Parks shared thisIt's all coming together...Brian Parks shared thisVoidZero is joining Cloudflare. Our mission stays the same: to make JavaScript developers more productive than ever before. Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ remain MIT-licensed. Evan and the VoidZero team will continue leading them. Cloudflare shares our commitment to open source. Together, we can keep investing in the tooling developers rely on every day, while bringing the Vite ecosystem and Cloudflare’s platform even closer together. Read the full announcement https://lnkd.in/gGU33UMd
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Brian Parks shared thisBring your own sandbox...Brian Parks shared thisLive from Code with Claude London: we're launching self-hosted sandboxes (public beta) and MCP tunnels (research preview) in Claude Managed Agents. With self-hosted sandboxes, you can run agents in any environment you control: your own infrastructure, or managed providers like Cloudflare, Daytona, Modal, or Vercel. With MCP tunnels, you can connect your agents to MCP servers deployed in your private network without exposing them to the public internet. Try self-hosted sandboxes today on the Claude Platform, and request access to MCP tunnels: https://lnkd.in/gaArsj4g
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Brian Parks shared thisEverybody building for Agents first.Brian Parks shared this“People aren’t just building for humans anymore. They’re building for agents.” Cloudflare shares how Cloudflare Sandbox SDK works with the OpenAI Agents SDK to help agents run code in secure environments while keeping sensitive data separate from execution.
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Brian Parks shared thisIt’s hard to keep up with the pace of innovation at Cloudflare…and then we do something like “Agents Week” and hit ludicrous speed.Brian Parks shared thisAgents Week is happening right now and the announcements are massive. Cloudflare has been the best infra for vibe-coding platforms for a while and it just got even better. Here's why. During development you need: - Auth & routing? Workers + KV - Harness for AI? Durable Objects + Agents SDK - Collab & sharing? Already included (such a flex btw) - Live previews? Dynamic workers or Sandbox SDK with containers - LLMs? AI Gateway + Workers AI - Video/image gen? Replicate - Code storage? Artifacts (NEW) For full-stack hosting: - App hosting? Dynamic Workers or Workers for Platforms - Storage & DBs? R2, KV, Durable Objects, D1 - pick your poison - Custom domains? SSL for SaaS - Buy domains? Registrar API (NEW) - Connect to private endpoints? Workers VPC + Tunnels That last one is huge btw. Unlocks internal apps so well - talk to that private Grafana, BigQuery, or any internal service. Scales from zero to millions of users. Scales from zero to hundreds of millions of apps. Bonus round: custom metrics via Analytics Engine, voice via RealtimeKit. My prediction? Lovable, Replit, and the rest are about to pivot from "build your own app" to "build your own agent." Vibe agents everywhere. We are so ready for it. Let's gooo!
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Brian Parks reposted thisBrian Parks reposted thisToday, we’re making OpenAI frontier models, including GPT-5.4, available to millions of customers across Cloudflare Agent Cloud. Enterprises can now build and deploy agents in Agent Cloud to handle real work, like responding to customers, updating systems, and generating reports. Agent Cloud runs on Cloudflare Workers AI, enabling fast, real-time performance at global scale. Developers can also deploy agents built with the Codex harness, now generally available in Cloudflare Sandboxes. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gNp9M7g8Enterprises power agentic workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAIEnterprises power agentic workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAI
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Brian Parks reposted thisBrian Parks reposted thisAI agents are starting to generate more code than developers. What does that mean for the Internet? A teaser episode for Cloudflare’s first #AgentsWeek with Ming Lu (in the clip) and Anni Wang. What we discuss: • why agents are becoming one of the biggest shifts in computing • why agents need new infrastructure for compute, storage, and security • how Cloudflare is building the platform to run and secure them Full episode + subscribe → https://ThisWeekinNET.com
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Brian Parks liked thisBrian Parks liked thisProductCamp Austin is coming up - and if you work in product in Austin, whether you’re an experienced or aspiring product leader, you must attend! And it’s free. ProductCamp has always felt very different from a traditional conference. There isn’t a polished speaker lineup decided months in advance. People submit the talks they want to give, pitch them that morning, and the community votes on what they actually want to hear. Those votes become the conference agenda. Which is also why this event is pretty personal to me. When I moved to Austin from Ukraine 11 years ago, ProductCamp was one of the first product events I discovered. I attended for years before I finally built up the courage to submit and pitch a session myself. Eventually, I went from sitting in the audience to speaking there - and even having one of my sessions recognized as one of the best talks of the event. That journey is a big part of why I still have such a soft spot for ProductCamp . It’s a place where you can come to learn something new, meet other people in the Austin product community, have conversations that continue long after the event - or maybe build up the courage to pitch an idea of your own. This time around, I may or may not be able to make it, but I still wanted to make sure people in my network knew about it. So if you’re in Austin, go check out ProductCamp Austin #35 on September 19. And I’m curious: 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁? Or, if you were brave enough to pitch your own session, what would you talk about?
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Brian Parks liked thisBrian Parks liked thisI solo won a hackathon at Cloudflare's San Francisco HQ. 🏆 2nd Place in the External Category. The challenge was simple: Build a product that AI agents use instead of humans. So I built Attest. When a bank works with a new startup or buys an outsourced API, compliance verification can take weeks or even months. I thought, what if agents handled it? I built two agents: → Bank Agent to perform the compliance assessment → Vendor Agent to provide answers and evidence Using Cotal.ai, the Bank Agent connects directly to the Vendor Agent and asks for proof instead of exchanging endless documents. Then I used Runtype.ai to test the vendor agent and validate its behavior before it goes into production. Bank Agent → Vendor Agent → Evidence → Testing → Compliance I also learned a ton from Rayyan Zahid's workshop on building your own multi agent orchestration with Claude. Hearing that he consumes 50B+ tokens every month was slightly terrifying and extremely motivating. Big thanks to the judges Michalis Vasileiadis, Axel Cassou, Barton Rhodes Fabio Roma and Vidya Bodepudi for the time and the questions. Thank you to Immersive Commons, Runtype, Cotal and Nebius for running it, and to Cloudflare for hosting us for two days. Special thanks to Rayyan Zahid for organizing the hackathon, I also admire 🥔 Izn Tariq for his help in the hackathon. And to the sponsors who backed it: Tenki Cloud, Tavily, Mitosis Labs, Hacker Bob, HUD and AISA Plus the community partners who brought people through the door. Live: https://lnkd.in/gjwG4FEU Code: https://lnkd.in/gTj-j5Qq Huge thanks to Ali Amjad for pushing me to win the hackathons. Thanks to my mentors Zafar Shahid, PhD, Rizwan Ghaffar, Amir Khan, Khalid Khokhar, Kaleem A..
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Brian Parks liked thisBrian Parks liked this„Agents are already using your product“ Currently learning and building at the Cloudflare hq in San Francisco
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Brian Parks liked thisBrian Parks liked thisThe Cloudflare team just shipped Cloudflare Wallets, to give your AI agents their own digital wallets, budget controls, and identity credentials so they can pay for services 👏Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic InternetAnnouncing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet
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Brian Parks liked thisBrian Parks liked thisGreetings from the Cloudflare #TechSummit! Joe Collura kicked things off with a ton of excitement and passion!! 👇👇✨ Joe got the field SE’s fired up talking about CHANGE! ✊ Change is the only constant!!! ♾️ Don’t be scared of it! 😬 It’s an OPPORTUNITY! 💯💯💯 The most successful people LEAN IN to change. 😎 They support it. They embrace it. They evangelize it. 🤠 At #Cloudflare, we’re leading change. And I’m proud to be a part of it. 🤩 Next week I will launching a new project to help people learn and adopt new technology. Stay tuned!! 😅 Are you a #ChangeAgent?? Looking forward to an amazing week with my TEAM and learning a lot so that I can share it with YOU and my customers. 🚀 Follow along for more content from the Cloudflare Tech Summit! 🧡 #leadership #ownership #salesengineer #security #technology #sales #PROUDFLARE
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Brian Parks liked thisCome build a better agent with us at Cloudflare’s office!Brian Parks liked thisWe are organizing the Agent Natives Builders Hackathon for people already building products and startups that are already shipping. When: August 26 and 27 Where: Cloudflare's San Francisco office Fifty seats only. Over the course of the year, our organizers and mentors have built top ranked agent-ready platforms and shipped foundational agent-native tech. This is a rare chance to build alongside them. Bring a product and leave with an agent surface that works: discovery, authentication, tooling, payments, usability and accessibility. We have two tracks: > External. What your customers' agents can do with you. Your product, reachable by someone else's agent. > Internal. What your own team's agents can do for you. The work behind the product, run by agents you trust. This hackathon will test your product across the full stack of agent-first tech infrastructure. Solo builders are welcome. You will work with our partners' forward deployed agents, hosted on Immersive Commons agent-native infrastructure. RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gBreBNag Hosted Cloudflare SF Organized by Runtype, Cotal and Immersive Commons Sponsors and partners: Tenki Cloud, Nebius, Tavily, Mitosis Labs and Hacker Bob Community partners: Agent Community, Learning Layer Labs, ClawCamp , Dabl Club and Hirey AI Nathan Booker Sven Jonscher David Farah Rayyan Zahid Colin Lowenberg Greta Ernst Prakshal Jain Alex Morris Nate Stewart Michalis Vasileiadis Eric Mockler Devinder Sodhi Steven Echtman Walter Wu Balázs Némethi #AgentNatives #AIAgents #AgenticAI #Hackathon #SanFrancisco
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Brian Parks liked thisBrian Parks liked thisAwesome first day at the The Agent Natives Builders Hackathon! Great energy, great conversations, and the exact sort of nerdy passion I hoped to find when I uprooted my life to move to California to focus on Runtype. Watching several builders create their prototype in minutes using our MCP inspired me. Huge thank you to Cloudflare (especially Jonathan Sauer who went above and beyond for us into the evening) for the awesome space, and to all the other sponsors Immersive Commons Cotal Mitosis Labs Nebius Tenki Cloud Learning Layer Labs and others. I look forward to tomorrow's judging, which will also include adversarial security review of all the agents (that part is no Great British Bake Off, it's Hell's Kitchen)
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Brian Parks liked thisBrian Parks liked thisI've got some news. After 7 years as a founder, it’s time to start a new chapter. I’m joining Cloudflare on the Startups GTM team! I wanted to stay in the startup ecosystem, get closer to where people are building with AI, and help founders avoid a few of the mistakes I made along the way. It was also super important to join a company I actually used as a founder and one that truly meets companies where they are. Cloudflare checked every box. I’m excited to get started and grateful to Jenny Fulkerson, Leah Moskovic, and Sumita Sharma for the opportunity. If you’re building something right now, reach out. I’d love to connect.
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Brian Parks liked thisBrian Parks liked thisI guess it’s a good thing when the CIO of Cloudflare starts mentioning part of your work in news articles 🫣 “In one case, an intern worked with Cloudflare’s European tax organization on the tedious process of reconciling tax identification numbers stored in different country formats. Instead of repeatedly feeding spreadsheets to a large language model and asking it to perform the task, the intern used AI to create a deterministic application into which employees could paste files.” https://lnkd.in/eJNN7jyYCloudflare CIO: What We Did When Employees Started Vibe Coding AppsCloudflare CIO: What We Did When Employees Started Vibe Coding Apps
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The New Must-Have Executive: The Rise of the Chief Digital Officer
See publicationIt seems that for most organizations, neither the CIO nor the CMO is ready to transform the way we work at a big enough level, but the world continues to accelerate. It appears the open executive parking space we've reserved for the leader who will fill those shoes is the Chief Digital Officer.
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How to hire a Social Media/Community Manager
See projectGuest speaker on the topic of hiring social media managers and community managers at Social Media Breakfast Austin. http://smbaustin.com/
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Madison&Main: Austin
See projectThe Madison&Main Panel Series is a multi-part and multi-city panel event hosted by PaperG that explores the intersection of Madison Avenue and Main Street and how ad technology is changing local advertising. We're heading to Austin to discuss the challenges of scaling social media marketing at different company sizes and geographic footprints.
The Panel Includes: Andrew Allison, CEO Main Street Hub, Yvonne Tocquigny, CEO Tocquigny & Brian Parks, VP-Community Development of…The Madison&Main Panel Series is a multi-part and multi-city panel event hosted by PaperG that explores the intersection of Madison Avenue and Main Street and how ad technology is changing local advertising. We're heading to Austin to discuss the challenges of scaling social media marketing at different company sizes and geographic footprints.
The Panel Includes: Andrew Allison, CEO Main Street Hub, Yvonne Tocquigny, CEO Tocquigny & Brian Parks, VP-Community Development of SocialMedia.org
Moderator: Victor Wong, CEO of PaperG
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