Building at the intersection of security, performance, and AI.
I'm Brandon Crowe. I spend my days helping the world's largest companies secure and accelerate their internet presence. This is where I write about what I'm learning, building, and thinking about.
Latest Posts
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Agents Week 2026: What We Added to SaltWaterBRC
Cloudflare launched Agents Week with 6 major announcements. We integrated three of them into saltwaterbrc.com in a single day: Browser Run, Voice Agents, and Workflows V2. Here's what we built, how it works, and what it means for building AI agents on the edge.
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From Chatbot to Autonomous Agent: Building V3 on Cloudflare
I rebuilt my AI chatbot as an autonomous agent that plans, chains tools, generates images, searches the web, queries databases, and creates files — all running on 9 Cloudflare products in a single Worker.
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Build What You Sell: 23 Cloudflare Products on One Site
I'm a Cloudflare Account Executive who built saltwaterbrc.com from scratch using 23 Cloudflare products — from DNS registration to AI agents to Layer 4 TCP proxies. Here's the full journey, what each product does, and how to demo it live.
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Cloudflare Spectrum: Protecting Non-HTTP Traffic at the Edge
I set up a DigitalOcean VPS, configured Cloudflare Spectrum, and locked down SSH access to prove how Layer 4 protection works for non-HTTP traffic. Here's the full walkthrough — from VPS creation to origin IP masking.
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Securing APIs with Cloudflare: API Shield, Schema Validation, and Layered Defense
I set up API Shield on my own site, uploaded an OpenAPI schema, and fired good and bad requests to test it. Here's the full walkthrough — from what an API actually is to why layered security matters.
About
I work at Cloudflare, where I've spent nearly a decade helping some of the world's largest companies secure and accelerate their internet presence.
Before Cloudflare, I was at Akamai. I've been in internet security and performance my entire career.
Outside of work, I'm a husband and father, and you'll usually find me on the golf course or at the range. I believe the best salespeople are the ones who actually understand what they sell.
This site is built entirely on Cloudflare—Pages, Workers, and AI—because I wanted to experience the platform from a developer's perspective. No origin server. No hosting costs. Just the edge.
This Site's Stack
Runs on Astro — Cloudflare's framework. No origin server. No hosting costs.
- RegistrarCloudflare Registrar
- DNSCloudflare
- HostingCloudflare Pages
- FrameworkAstro (Cloudflare)
- Edge LogicCloudflare Workers
- StateDurable Objects
- StorageCloudflare R2
- AIWorkers AI + Vectorize
- AI GatewayLogging, Caching, Rate Limiting
- Sandbox SDKContainers + Workers + DO
- Agents SDKAutonomous Agent V3 (11 Tools)
- KVAgent Memory Store
- Rate LimitingWorkers Binding (Edge)
- StreamCloudflare Stream
- AccessZTNA + Google Workspace IdP
- GatewayDNS Filtering + HTTP Inspection
- TunnelOutbound-Only Connector
- WARPCloudflare One Client
- RBIBrowser Isolation (Clientless)
- CASBGoogle Workspace Scan
- DLPData Loss Prevention
- SecurityCloudflare WAF
- API ShieldSchema Validation + BOLA Detection
- Page ShieldClient-Side Script Monitoring
- SpectrumLayer 4 TCP/UDP Protection
- DatabaseCloudflare D1 (SQL)
- Browser RunHeadless Chrome (Agent Browsing)
- VoiceDeepgram Flux STT + Aura TTS
- WorkflowsDurable Execution (Agent Research)
- Built WithClaude AI + OpenCode + Cascade
- CostCloudflare Enterprise