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Kenton Varda

Also known as kentonv

Tech lead of Cloudflare Workers; author of Cap'n Proto and of Protocol Buffers v2.

Why it matters

Current role
Tech lead, Cloudflare Workers2
Based in
Austin, TX2
At Google
2005–2013: Universal Search infrastructure, sharing and access control for Google Drive, Protocol Buffers1
Protocol Buffers
Wrote most of v2 and turned it into an open source project1
Cap'n Proto
Created it after leaving Google, as a successor to Protocol Buffers; announced 1 April 20134
Sandstorm
Co-founder and technical lead1
Joined Cloudflare
13 March 2017, with most of the Sandstorm team5
At Cloudflare
Started the Workers project1

Writing to start with

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  1. 9 years ago

    Introducing Cloudflare Workers (opens blog.cloudflare.com)

    The launch post: JavaScript on Cloudflare's edge, run in V8 like a browser runs scripts from many sites.

  2. 6 years ago

    Mitigating Spectre and Other Security Threats: The Cloudflare Workers Security Model (opens blog.cloudflare.com)

    How Workers makes running third-party code safe; in his words the heart of Workers is a security project.

  3. 6 years ago

    Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless (opens blog.cloudflare.com)

    Introduces Durable Objects: consistent, low-latency state and coordination between clients.

  4. 4 years ago

    Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime (opens blog.cloudflare.com)

    The Workers runtime released as open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

  5. 2 years ago

    Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object (opens blog.cloudflare.com)

    Puts application code inside the storage layer, so it runs where the data is.

  6. 1 year ago

    Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers (opens blog.cloudflare.com)

    A JavaScript-native RPC protocol in the spirit of Cap'n Proto, with no schemas. With Steve Faulkner.

  7. 1 year ago

    Code Mode: the better way to use MCP (opens blog.cloudflare.com)

    Turns MCP tools into a TypeScript API and has the model write code against it. With Sunil Pai.

  8. 6 months ago

    Sandboxing AI agents, 100x faster (opens blog.cloudflare.com)

    Dynamic Workers: AI-generated code in isolates that start in milliseconds. With Sunil Pai and Ketan Gupta.

Before Cloudflare

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  1. 18 years ago

    Protocol Buffers: Google's Data Interchange Format (opens opensource.googleblog.com)

    His Google Open Source Blog post announcing the open-source release of Protocol Buffers.

  2. 13 years ago

    Announcing Cap'n Proto (opens capnproto.org)

    "I may have rewritten Protocol Buffers. Again."

  3. 9 years ago

    The Sandstorm Team is joining Cloudflare (opens sandstorm.io)

    Why he joined Cloudflare: its heavy use of Cap'n Proto, and new infrastructure on its edge.

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  1. About Sandstorm (project leads) (opens sandstorm.io)
  2. kentonv on GitHub (opens github.com)
  3. Protocol Buffers: Google's Data Interchange Format (Google Open Source Blog) (opens opensource.googleblog.com)
  4. Announcing Cap'n Proto (opens capnproto.org)
  5. The Sandstorm Team is joining Cloudflare (opens sandstorm.io)
  6. Kenton Varda, Cloudflare blog author page (opens blog.cloudflare.com)

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