Delivering A Resilient World Cup Final
How do you stream the World Cup to estimated 1.8B fans? Explore Fastly’s traffic insights, extra-time viewer surges, and real-time anti-piracy strategies.
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Delivering A Resilient World Cup Final
How do you stream the World Cup to estimated 1.8B fans? Explore Fastly’s traffic insights, extra-time viewer surges, and real-time anti-piracy strategies.
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Mapping the Beautiful Game: How the World Cup Reshapes U.S. Internet Traffic
What can internet traffic tell us about World Cup fans? Fastly data reveals the teams and matches that captured attention across the U.S.
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MoQ in the Fast Lane
What do Formula 1, drones, and live streaming have in common? In this guest post, MoQ co-creator Luke Curley explores how Media over QUIC is reshaping low-latency media delivery.
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No More Draws: What the World Cup's Knockout Rounds Reveal About Viewership
What happens when every World Cup match is win-or-go-home? Fastly's global traffic data reveals how extra time, penalty shootouts, and late drama reshape live viewing behavior.
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Optimizing Compute for Agentic Systems With New Request Handoff Functionality
Optimize long-running backend requests with Fastly's new request handoff feature in our Rust SDK, boosting throughput for AI agents and complex workloads.
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How to protect your MCP Server with Fastly
Protect your AI infrastructure with Fastly. Learn how our MCP server security architecture mitigates OWASP and AI-specific threats while maintaining edge performance.
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Fastly Joins DIMPACT to Collaborate on Digital Sustainability
Fastly joins DIMPACT to help streaming and publishing companies accurately measure and reduce their digital carbon footprints through sustainable edge innovation.
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Fastly recognized as a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Edge Distribution Platforms
Fastly is named a 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Edge Distribution Platforms, earning a 4.8/5 rating based on user reviews.
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State of Pay: Agentic Commerce, Payments, and the Edge
Explore the rise of agentic commerce, emerging AI payment protocols, and why the edge is becoming the control point for secure AI-driven transactions.
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No Code Request Routing
Simplify traffic routing with no code request routing. Host multiple services on one domain with declarative, path-based rules – no custom code required.
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World Cup Viewership: What Keeps Fans Watching (and Tuning Out)
What drives World Cup viewership? We analyzed global streaming traffic trends, from halftime dips to star players and nail-biting finishes, on our edge network.
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AI is Taking From Publishers! Here’s How They Can Fix It
The old deal between publishers and search is broken. AI extracts content value without clicks or compensation. Here's the new architecture publishers need.
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How to Prove the Business Value of Your Edge Infrastructure
Stop the "silent performance" problem. Discover how to prove the business value of your edge infrastructure with Fastly's new ROI-focused reporting.
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Using the Gini Coefficient to Plan Edge Capacity
Discover how Fastly uses the Gini coefficient, a metric usually reserved for economics, to model edge traffic inequality, improve cache efficiency, and plan capacity.
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The Fastly C++ SDK is Now Generally Available
Fastly's C++ SDK for Compute is now generally available, bringing native edge performance, WebAssembly security, and access to the vast C++ ecosystem.
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Deploying Fastly's Next-Gen WAF with Google Cloud Service Extensions to Help Secure Traffic at Scale
Discover how Fastly's Next-Gen WAF and Google Cloud Service Extensions deliver real-time threat protection, scalable security, and low-latency performance.
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UA Spoofing 101: Detection and Defense with Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF
Learn how to detect and defend against User-Agent spoofing. Discover how Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF uses behavioral signals to unmask automated threats and bots.
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Credential Stuffing is the Real Boss Fight for Gaming Platforms
Credential stuffing threatens player trust and revenue in gaming. Learn how to stop account takeover attacks at the edge without disrupting the player experience.
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We Built the Proxy Behind Firefox's New Built-In VPN — Here's How It Works
Discover how Fastly built the proxy powering Firefox's new built-in VPN, using HTTP CONNECT, QUIC, and MASQUE for scalable web privacy.
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Six Common Live Streaming Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)
After years of supporting some of the world's biggest live streaming events, we've seen the same mistakes surface time and again. Here's how to avoid them.
