In this episode, Jordan and Riley break down a recent Cloudflare Engineering post on Town Lake, their internal data lakehouse, and Skipper, the AI agent built on top of it. They cover why Cloudflare needed it (a billion+ events/sec scattered across Postgres, ClickHouse, Kafka, and more), how Trino and Iceberg tie it together into one queryable system, the "default-closed" access model for sensitive data, and how Skipper turns natural-language questions into safe, grounded SQL — including a neat trick that cut its tool-calling round-trips from five down to one.

Source: How we built Cloudflare's data platform and an AI agent on top of it — The Cloudflare Blog, May 28, 2026. This episode is commentary and discussion, not a reprod ...