Cloudflare Agents Week
Cloudflare’s completed 2026 Agents Week points to a larger strategy: secure the agentic enterprise network while becoming the platform startups choose to build and operate AI-native products.
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Welcome. I’m Joakim Berg, and this site brings together my writing, commentary, and the latest articles across edge, CDN, security, streaming, and AI infrastructure.
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Home Wi-Fi Tail Latency Is Breaking Live Streaming Analytics
Wi-Fi has spent years chasing throughput and device density, but live streaming fails on tail latency. A few bad milliseconds at home can do more damage than a mediocre average connection.
Varnish Software leans into sovereign CDN, managed services and cloud-native delivery
Varnish Software's sovereign European CDN, Ora Streaming and Kubernetes Gateway work point to a broader shift from licensed software and premium support toward managed services and SaaS.
The Model Can Reason. The API Must Govern.
A premium look at why AI security belongs at the API layer, not inside large language models.
Beyond Rules: What a Good WAF Should—and Could—Be
The WAF category has gone stale. Its value now depends on the hardening, contextual intelligence, and pre-disclosure virtual patching built around it—not the generic rules engine carrying the WAF label.
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Fastly shows how stateless MCP can move to the edge
Fastly published an edge MCP reference that uses Compute, caching, and default-deny authorization to reduce latency for agent tool calls.
F5
F5 AI Gateway targets enterprise control over models, agents, and tools
F5 introduced a next-generation AI Gateway that combines model routing, MCP governance, guardrails, budgets, observability, and audit controls.
Google Cloud Edge and Media CDN
Google Cloud rounds up new AI infrastructure and orchestration updates
Google Cloud's August update highlights AI infrastructure items including G-series Flex CUDs, Rapid Bucket with GCSFS, and agentic platform resources.
F5
F5 argues for application-adjacent WAF defense in Google Cloud
F5 described how application-adjacent WAF inspection can complement edge security by enforcing workload-specific controls close to Google Cloud applications.
Vercel
Vercel CDN adds Encrypted Client Hello support
Vercel CDN now supports Encrypted Client Hello for domains managed by Vercel DNS, initially in selected regions and TLDs.
Fastly details the invisible stadium behind World Cup streaming
Fastly described how predictive capacity planning, autonomous routing, security controls, and live engineering support handled World Cup-scale traffic.
AWS Edge and CloudFront
AWS shows WebSocket patterns with Amazon VPC Lattice
AWS explained how to run WebSocket-style real-time applications through VPC Lattice using TLS listeners or resource configurations.
Google Cloud Edge and Media CDN
Google Cloud details TelevisaUnivision's World Cup streaming architecture
Google Cloud described how TelevisaUnivision used Media CDN, regional edge capacity, direct peering, and operational war rooms for World Cup streaming.
Fastly examines the shadow audience around online sports
Fastly connected World Cup piracy, bot traffic, and automated abuse into a broader view of the traffic that follows major sports events.
Fastly and Experian position the edge as an AI agent trust point
Fastly joined Experian's Agent Trust ecosystem to help distinguish authorized AI agents from unwanted automated traffic at the edge.
Fastly adds broader C2PA provenance support to Image Optimizer
Fastly Image Optimizer now supports C2PA pass-through for the latest spec across supported image formats except JPEG XL.
Added virtual patch for CVE-2026-66066 (KindaRails2Shell)
An arbitrary file read vulnerability that can potentially enable remote code execution (RCE) has been found in Ruby on Rails Active Storage and has been assigned CVE-2026-66066. Fastly has created a virtual patch for it that is now available within your account. To activate it and add protection to your services, follow the steps for your control panel below. Next-Gen WAF control panel From the Rules menu, select Templated Rules. In the search bar, enter CVE-2026-66066 and then click View for the CVE-2026-66066 templated rule. Click Configure and then Add trigger. Select the Block requests from an IP immediately if the CVE-2026-66066 signal is observed checkbox. Click Update rule. Click the Signals tab. In the search bar, enter CVE-2026-66066 and then click View for the CVE-2026-66066 tag. Click the Detections tab and then Add detection. Verify the switch is set to Enabled. Click Create detection. Click the Alerts tab and then Add alert. In the Status area, set the switch to Enabled. Click Save alert. Fastly control panel Click Virtual Patches. In the search bar, enter CVE-2026-66066 and then click the pencil to the right of the CVE-2026-66066 virtual patch. From the Status menu, select Enabled. (Optional) If your workspace is in blocking mode, choose whether to Block requests or Log requests if the CVE-2026-66066 signal is observed. Click Update virtual patch.
Cloudflare adds post-quantum authentication for origin connections
Cloudflare now supports post-quantum authentication for origin-facing traffic through Authenticated Origin Pulls and Custom Origin Trust Store.
Fastly examines how to deliver a resilient FIFA World Cup final
Fastly analyzed the infrastructure demands behind streaming the 2026 World Cup final, including traffic surges, resilience, piracy, and security.
Fastly maps how the FIFA World Cup reshaped U.S. internet traffic
Fastly used platform data to show how specific World Cup matches drove major localized streaming traffic spikes across the United States.
Zixi and Comcast Technology Solutions unify linear video distribution
Zixi and Comcast Technology Solutions have partnered to modernize linear broadcaster distribution by combining Comcast Media360 with the Zixi Software Platform.
Broadpeak powers SIMBA's new streaming CDN in Brazil
SIMBA has selected Broadpeak Advanced CDN to launch a new high-performance streaming delivery network in Brazil for live and on-demand video.
Cloudflare launches Workers Cache for edge application acceleration
Cloudflare has introduced Workers Cache, a tiered cache that sits directly in front of Worker entrypoints to reduce CPU usage and improve latency.
Cloudflare launches new AI bot controls and BotBase visibility
Cloudflare has rolled out more granular AI traffic controls along with BotBase, a new visibility layer for known bots and agents.
Cloudflare and browser vendors propose PACT for privacy-first verification
Cloudflare, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify have introduced PACT, a privacy-preserving protocol for proving traffic is legitimate.
Akamai unveils an agentic security framework for AI-driven traffic
Akamai has launched a unified agentic security framework that ties together identity, observability, trust, and edge decisioning.
Google Cloud Edge and Media CDN
Google Cloud spotlights agentic media and entertainment partners
Google Cloud highlighted media and entertainment partners applying AI across production, archive search, streaming, monetization, and broadcast reliability.
Akamai expands distributed inference orchestration across 4,400 edge locations
Akamai has launched AI Grid intelligent orchestration for its Inference Cloud, spanning edge, regional, and core environments.
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