In this episode we speak with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, a global web platform built for security and performance. We discuss the philosophy behind the idea that the network is a computer, why developers should be able to ignore the low level details of where their code runs, and the challenges of deploying data centers on Mars.

About John Graham-Cumming

John Graham-Cumming is the CTO of Cloudflare and is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer, he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Lisbon, Germany, and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.

He is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist, and other publications.

Things mentioned:

• Apple silicon
• Arm
• IBM
• Intel
• Starlink
• Donald Knute
• Cloudflare Workers
• V8
• Go
• Rust
• WebAssembly (Wasm)
• COBOL
• Green Compute
• Cloudflare Wrangler
• J programming language
• Raspberry Pi
• Jgc.org

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Recorded: 2021-11-24