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Thousands of developers around the world are building on Fastly. Join us and meet others creating novel and powerful things using the Fastly platform, and hang out with Fastly engineers as we learn from our community of customers.

  • Community forum
    Post your ideas, example code, and problems and get help from other developers and Fastly specialists.

  • Developer blog
    We blog on DEV with ideas, examples, patterns, and occasional spicy opinions.

  • Open source
    A lot of Fastly is open-source. Our GitHub has a wealth of useful code to help you make the most of building on Fastly.

  • Community projects
    Some of the best and most innovative ideas to help you use Fastly come from our customer community.

Next event

Software You Can Love14-17 May 2024
Milan, Italy		An exhilarating event featuring workshops and talks on system programming, emerging languages, and crafting customer-centric software experiences.

For more developer events check out our Events calendar.

From the blog

Here's what we've been writing about recently over on Dev.to.

Is purging still the hardest problem in computer science?
One of the most common reasons for customers sending support tickets to Fastly is for help with purging content from cache - either it stays too long, or doesn't stay long enough.
11 things I do in every Fastly service I create
The variety of things you can do in edge computing these days is huge, and Fastly customers are constantly impressing me with their creativity and the complexity of some of the problems that can be solved entirely at the edge.
Open source at Fastly is getting opener
Like most tech companies these days, Fastly is heavily reliant on open source software and the ecosystem of services and frameworks that modern software development weaves together.
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