Best of Infrastructure — December 2025

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   Article

   Cloudflare·23w

   Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare

   Replicate, a platform for running machine learning models as APIs, has been acquired by Cloudflare. Founded in 2019 to make research models accessible to developers through tools like Cog, Replicate became a key infrastructure provider during the Stable Diffusion era. The acquisition enables integration with Cloudflare's network infrastructure, Workers, R2, and other services to build a comprehensive AI stack. The combined platform aims to support edge model execution, instant-booting Workers for model pipelines, and WebRTC streaming for model inputs and outputs.

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   Video

   Anthony Sistilli·22w

   CEO: Cloudflare is down again? lets buy it

   A satirical dialogue depicting non-technical executives misunderstanding the scale and importance of Cloudflare after experiencing downtime. The humor centers on their naive belief that Cloudflare is a small company that could be easily acquired or replicated, despite it serving half the internet's infrastructure needs.

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   Article

   CNCF·22w

   Lima v2.0: New features for secure AI workflows

   Lima v2.0 introduces plugin infrastructure, GPU acceleration via krunkit, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools for sandboxing AI agents. The release expands Lima's focus beyond containers to include secure AI workflows by running agents inside VMs to isolate them from direct host access. New features include progress flags, simplified mount syntax, environment variable propagation, UDP port forwarding, and multi-user support. The plugin system enables third-party extensions for hypervisors, CLI commands, and URL schemes.

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