Experiences from Living at The Edge

Organisations are prioritising digital products and services. As a result, the objectives of technology teams are increasingly becoming the strategic priorities of executive leaders:

• Accelerate development and deployment
• Simplify infrastructure
• Improve security
• Drive productivity
• Reduce scaling barriers and costs

“The cloud” made all of these promises, but the outcomes have contributed to more of the same challenges: greater complexity, cost, risks and rigidity.

In this session we’ll explore why these objectives have remained elusive, and importantly how, by “living at the edge” this (in many use cases) no longer needs to be the case.

Jamie Lord is a global authority on the Cloudflare Developer platform and is the author of Architecting on Cloudflare, a resource that has been shared and praised by Cloudflare’s top brass and customers.

He’ll explore why building on Cloudflare’s edge is genuinely better: fewer vendors stitched together, infrastructure and security handled at the same layer, and deployment measured in minutes rather than change-request cycles.

The audience can submit their existing architecture, development, and infrastructure challenges before the event, and Jamie will guide an open discussion about his experience of overcoming them, including real examples of what he and his colleagues have been able to build.

We’ll also look into our agentic present and fast-approaching future, sharing how customers are using the platform to safely accelerate progress.

Stay on afterwards for networking, drinks and refreshments and an optional Developer Lab, where Jamie showcases the platform hands-on for anyone who wants to go deeper.

Agenda:

• 5:30 – 6:15: Registration and networking
• 6:15 – 6:30: The common barriers, from you – Our speakers address the architecture, build and development challenges submitted by attendees beforehand.
• 6:30 – 6:45: Building on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform –  Jamie Lord shares why building on the Developer Platform, at the edge, is better.
• 6:45 – 7:15: What we’ve actually built – Real world examples. A panel of experts discuss real things they’ve built on the platform, at the edge, its benefits and why its worked better.
• 7:15 – 8:00: Networking and optional Developer Lab.