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A lot of people underestimate just how powerful @Cloudflare is. Or simply don't know what it can ...

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A lot of people underestimate just how powerful @Cloudflare is. Or simply don't know what it can do beyond CDN, DNS, and security.

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A lot of people underestimate just how powerful @Cloudflare is. Or simply don't know what it can do beyond CDN, DNS, and security.

It's become one of my favorite platforms to build with, both at work and on my personal projects.

One of the biggest reasons I love it is that Cloudflare feels like it was built for the age of AI agents.

It gives you pretty much everything you need to build and deploy applications: Workers for compute, D1 for databases, R2 for storage, Queues, Workflows, and much more. All within the same ecosystem, with very little infrastructure to manage. This makes it incredibly easy to build with AI agents.

At @railblocks, we're taking this a step further by using Cloudflare as the foundation for the AI-powered operating systems we build for investment firms.

We just published an article explaining exactly why we've chosen Cloudflare, the building blocks we use, and how they all fit together.

It's definitely worth a read if you're building with AI agents, or simply curious about what Cloudflare can do beyond its traditional use cases!

**Quoted @Lorenzo__CB:** To work effectively across an entire company, agents need an Operating System.

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@Cloudflare has the best infrastructure to build it - here's why: [[posts/Lorenzo__CB/2026-10-26-agents-run-best-on-cloudflare|Agents run best on Cloudflare]] (https://x.com/i/article/2114690470387269632)

Key Takeaways

  • Cloudflare is much more than CDN, DNS and security: Workers (compute), D1 (databases), R2 (storage), Queues and Workflows all sit in one ecosystem with very little infrastructure to manage, which makes it an easy place to build and run AI agents.
  • Railblocks uses Cloudflare as the base for the AI-powered operating systems it builds for investment firms.
  • The detail (why Cloudflare, which building blocks, how they fit together) is in the article she points to, by Lorenzo Castro: [[posts/Lorenzo__CB/2026-10-26-agents-run-best-on-cloudflare|Agents run best on Cloudflare]].