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Video Cache Prefetch with Compute
Jim Rainville, Vadim Getmanshchuk
By using Compute to pre-warm the cache, you are not only using a powerful, globally distributed network to do the work, but you also solve the pitfalls associated with legacy prefetch.
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Delivering What Modern Broadcasters Need at IBC | Fastly
Noel Penzer
With streaming now the most common way for viewers to watch content, the modern broadcaster needs to focus on scalability, resiliency, and security.
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Interview with HUMAN CEO Tamer Hassan
Lakshmi Sharma
Fastly announced a reseller partnership with HUMAN Security, Inc. to better safeguard enterprises and internet platforms from sophisticated bot attacks and fraud. We sat down with HUMAN CEO and Co-founder Tamer Hassan to learn more about bots, and what HUMAN is doing to protect its customers from the threat.
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Automating and Defending Nefarious Automation
Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa
If your application is on the internet, chances are it has been subjected to nefarious automation. These events can include many different attacks – including content scraping, credential stuffing, application DDoS, web form abuse, token guessing, and more.
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Taming shoe bots: it’s no small feat
Katsuyuki Omuro
Automated scripts, or bots, make up a large portion of product purchases on the web today. To some businesses, these bots cause harm, but for others, bots help drive revenue. If you are an online business owner, your stance on how to address them will vary. Whatever your needs, Fastly’s edge cloud scales up to meet the challenge, and helps you to create the right set of policies for your business.
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OpenTelemetry part 4: Instrumenting Fastly Fiddle
Andrew Betts
We are very excited about OpenTelemetry. We wrote about why, and also about how to emit telemetry from Fastly's VCL services, and our new Compute platform. But OpenTelemetry's value truly shines when you add it to everything in your stack. What does that look like and is it worth it? We instrumented Fastly Fiddle, from top to bottom, to find out.
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Pro Tips: Next-Gen WAF Mastery
The Fastly Security Technical Account Management Team
Learn how you can use your next-gen WAF effectively, along with best practices.
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Future security trends for 2022/2023 | Fastly
Mike Johnson
The world changed when the pandemic hit in 2020, leaving organizations unsure of how it would affect the future. Security leaders may have found themselves wondering if their long-standing business approaches, processes, and tools could withstand the changes brought on by the pandemic.
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Evolved terms for data processing | Fastly
Matthew Peterson
At Fastly, we work hard to stay ahead of legal changes that affect our customers. It’s always our goal to help customers stay confident and compliant, as seamlessly as possible.
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Compute: Go support has arrived!
Mark McDonnell
Fastly’s Compute platform enables customers to build high scale, globally distributed applications and execute code at the edge using popular languages such as Rust and JavaScript. Now you can use Go too!
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A closer look at low latency delivery
John Agger
Latency — the lag between when the packet leaves the streaming source and when it arrives at the consumer’s device — takes many forms, with the most common being lag, dropped frames, buffering, and with that reduced video quality.
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OpenTelemetry Part 3: Using OpenTelemetry in Compute
Katsuyuki Omuro
Our first OpenTelemetry library for Compute is now available, enabling your Compute application to generate spec-compliant traces, providing deeper insights about its performance and resources. In this post I'll show you how easy it is to add this support to an edge application.
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What is TLS Fingerprinting?| Fastly
Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens
TLS fingerprinting has become a prevalent tool to help security defenders identify what clients are talking to their server infrastructure.
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Five ways to make your CDN work harder for you
Chris Buckley, John Agger
There are many more well-documented reasons to make a CDN part of your distribution. In this blog post we examine some lesser-known rationales to help you scale and improve your business.
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Serverless Swift with Compute@Edge by Andrew Barba | Fastly
Andrew Betts, Hannah Aubry
Recently Andrew Barba, the engineer behind Swift Cloud, released a highly performant and fully featured Swift SDK for our Compute platform. And he built the initial release in just four days, to boot! Understandably impressed, we sat down with Andrew to learn about his goals and build process for the project.
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Live sports delivery challenges conquered | Fastly
John Agger
With zero tolerance for rebuffering and streams that scale from zero to massive in no time, the stakes are unusually high, making live sport the most demanding content type to deliver, requiring both flexibility and resiliency.
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OpenTelemetry Part 2: Using OpenTelemetry in VCL
Andrew Betts
We're starting to get excited about OpenTelemetry, and want you to be able to observe your Fastly services just like you do with apps running in your core cloud provider — and see the stories of your end user's journeys mapped end to end. VCL services can emit OpenTelemetry data, and be part of that story.
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Get App & Infrastructure Visibility with Inspectors | Fastly
Dom Soegono, Dom Fee
We are excited to launch two new great visibility products into general availability - Origin and Domain Inspector! Observe origin performance or domain traffic with ease! Find out more in this blog post announcement.
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Four reasons you should try Fastly’s Image Optimizer
James Sherry
Major brands with strong web presences like The Guardian and Big Cartel rely on Image Optimizer to serve pixel-perfect images on the fly. Here are four reasons why you should try it out too.
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The Signals Series, Part 1: Exploring Custom Signals
Liz Hurder
Traditional web application firewalls (WAFs) were created to stop malicious traffic from reaching your origin servers, which served its purpose well during an internet age of HTML and PNGs.
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