Connectivity cloud leader Cloudflare (NYSE: NET) announced this week that more than 10 million developers are now building applications on its serverless platform, surging from 7.4 million in the prior quarter as AI-assisted coding and agentic workflows accelerate deployments.
From Edge Functions to a Full-Stack Agentic Cloud
What started nearly a decade ago with Cloudflare Workers has expanded into an integrated serverless stack spanning D1 databases, R2 object storage, Workers AI, queues, and real-time observability.
Why Developers and DevOps Teams Are Moving to the Edge
- 35% Quarter-Over-Quarter Developer Growth: Driven by developers and AI agents deploying full-stack applications globally in seconds.
- Zero-Day Edge WAF Shield: As detailed on the Cloudflare Blog, managed WAF rules for PHP2Shell shipped 9 hours before public disclosure across all tiers including Free.
- Full-Transaction Detection: New inspection engine evaluates both incoming HTTP requests and origin responses to block exploit payloads.
The software lifecycle is expanding from developers building for people to developers and AI agents building for both people and agents.
How to Verify Your Cloudflare WAF Rules Are in Block Mode
Site administrators on Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans should navigate to Security → WAF → Managed Rules to confirm that newly added PHP rules are set to Block rather than Log.
Monitoring Blocked Exploit Attempts
Developers can inspect mitigated attacks in real time under Security → Security Analytics → Events. Full primary documentation is available via Cloudflare Official 10M Developers Announcement.
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