Dev Interrupted Building the internet’s next infrastructure layer | Cloudflare's Brendan Irvine-Broque
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Sep 30, 2025 Brendan Irvine-Broque, Director of Product at Cloudflare, dives deep into the transformative potential of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). He discusses how Cloudflare’s 'customer zero' approach allows them to test and refine tools like Durable Objects to enhance agent communication. Brendan emphasizes the importance of observability in MCP’s architecture and how it supports security at scale. He envisions a future where decentralized infrastructure enables more intelligent, responsive applications, paving the way for innovative chat-based interactions.
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Dogfood Internally To Build Better Products
- Cloudflare dogfoods new products by treating internal teams as 'customer zero' to validate features.
- This internal use drives product improvements that benefit external customers.
Early MCP Experiments At Cloudflare
- Brendan recalls first hearing about MCP from Anthropic and experimenting with local setups inside Cloudflare.
- Early internal experiments paved the way for broader interest in 2025.
Durable Objects Fit MCP Sessions
- Cloudflare's Durable Objects map naturally to MCP's need for long-lived, stateful sessions.
- This makes Cloudflare well suited to host scalable remote MCP servers and agent-to-agent communication.
