# Cloudflare Surpasses 10 Million Developers on Workers Platform and Deploys Full-Transaction WAF Rules

> Cloudflare announced that more than 10 million developers are now building on its Workers platform, up from 7.4 million last quarter, alongside new WAF.

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- **Category**: [Web Hosting & Dev](https://egymonitor.com/en/categories/web-hosting-dev)
- **Author**: عبدالرحمن شوقي
- **Published Date**: 2026-10-23 08:52
- **Keywords**: Cloudflare, Serverless, Cloudflare Workers, WAF, Edge Computing

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Connectivity cloud leader [Cloudflare (NYSE: NET)](https://www.cloudflare.com/it-it/press/press-releases/2026/more-than-10-million-developers-are-building-on-cloudflare/) 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](https://blog.cloudflare.com/php-vulnerabilities-waf-protection/), 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](https://www.cloudflare.com/it-it/press/press-releases/2026/more-than-10-million-developers-are-building-on-cloudflare/).