Building at the intersection of security, performance, and AI.
I'm Brandon Crowe. I spend my days helping the world's largest companies secure and accelerate their internet presence. This is where I write about what I'm learning, building, and thinking about.
Latest Posts
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Adding Zero Trust to a Developer Platform Site
I built a full Cloudflare Zero Trust stack on a personal blog — Access, Gateway, Tunnel, WARP, Browser Isolation, CASB, and DLP. Seven products, one afternoon, zero hardware.
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The Lightbulb Moment: AI Video on Cloudflare Stream
I created an AI-generated video about the moment everything clicked — and delivered it using Cloudflare Stream. No transcoding pipeline, no video CDN, no infrastructure. Upload a video, get a player.
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Migrating to Astro — Cloudflare's Own Framework
Rebuilding the site on Astro — the framework Cloudflare acquired. Markdown-based blog posts, faster builds, and deploying on the same framework used by Porsche, IKEA, and OpenAI.
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Code Playground: Running Containers at the Edge with Sandbox SDK
I built an interactive playground where visitors can run shell, Python, and JavaScript in isolated Linux containers at the edge.
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Ask This Blog: Adding AI to the Edge with Workers AI, Vectorize, and AI Gateway
I built a feature where visitors can ask questions and get AI-generated answers from blog content. Three Cloudflare products, zero external APIs, all running at the edge.
About
I work at Cloudflare, where I've spent nearly a decade helping some of the world's largest companies secure and accelerate their internet presence.
Before Cloudflare, I was at Akamai. I've been in internet security and performance my entire career.
Outside of work, I'm a husband and father, and you'll usually find me on the golf course or at the range. I believe the best salespeople are the ones who actually understand what they sell.
This site is built entirely on Cloudflare—Pages, Workers, and AI—because I wanted to experience the platform from a developer's perspective. No origin server. No hosting costs. Just the edge.
This Site's Stack
Runs on Astro — Cloudflare's framework. No origin server. No hosting costs.
- RegistrarCloudflare Registrar
- DNSCloudflare
- HostingCloudflare Pages
- FrameworkAstro (Cloudflare)
- Edge LogicCloudflare Workers
- StateDurable Objects
- StorageCloudflare R2
- AIWorkers AI + Vectorize
- AI GatewayLogging, Caching, Rate Limiting
- Sandbox SDKContainers + Workers + DO
- StreamCloudflare Stream
- AccessZTNA + Google Workspace IdP
- GatewayDNS Filtering + HTTP Inspection
- TunnelOutbound-Only Connector
- WARPCloudflare One Client
- RBIBrowser Isolation (Clientless)
- CASBGoogle Workspace Scan
- DLPData Loss Prevention
- SecurityCloudflare WAF
- Built WithClaude AI + Code
- CostCloudflare Enterprise