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Fastly acquires Glitch for "yes code" at edge | Fastly

Lakshmi Sharma

Fastly is thrilled to announce it has acquired Glitch, with plans to continue fostering one of the most beloved developer communities on the web today.

Company news

Taming third parties with a single-origin website

Andrew Betts

Almost all webpages today load resources from origins other than the one the page came from, which can play havoc with the way your site loads and make it harder to write a strict Content-Security-Policy. In this post, we’ll show you a better way using Compute@Edge.

Product
Compute

Fastly named "Customers' Choice" in 2022 Gartner report | Fastly

Lee Chen

We’re thrilled to announce that Fastly has been named a “Customers’ Choice” in the 2022 Gartner Peer Insights™ “Voice of the Customer”: Global CDN.

Company news

Threat hunting network callbacks in WAF data

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens

Threat hunting is the practice of looking for active attackers who have possibly penetrated security boundaries within an organization. WAF data can be a valuable resource in threat hunting for network callbacks. Here’s how.

Security

Fastly product design: Creating enterprise experiences | Fastly

Jennifer Fleming

At Fastly, we design for a delightful enterprise experience by looking deeply at customer needs. In this post, our Director of Product Experience shares some of the similarities and differences between B2C and B2B design she’s discovered in her journey of becoming an enterprise design lead, and how we implement human-centric design at Fastly.

Product
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HTTP/3 and QUIC free for all customers | Fastly

Jana Iyengar

QUIC version 1 is officially formalized, and QUIC deployments will now move away from using temporary draft versions to the newly minted version 1.

Company news
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Now in beta, Fastly’s Observability Dashboard

Dom Soegono

Fastly’s Observability Dashboard allows you to analyze all your edge delivery metrics and observability data in one interactive window. In this blog, learn more about the dashboard, now in beta, and find out how to get started.

Product
Performance

Deadlock bugs: circular waits of torment | Fastly

Kelly Shortridge

This post will illuminate how deadlock bugs emerge, some facets of their fascinating and frustrating strangeness, and guidance on how to handle them in your own systems.

Security

Introducing the Compute KV Store — global, persistent storage for compute functions

Dennis Martensson

Our new KV Store offers global, durable storage for compute functions at the edge. With fast reads and writes from both the edge or via API, you can store, control, or cache your data to reduce origin dependency and unlock new use cases.

Compute

Three questions that make edge state easier to design

MJ Jones

In this post, we’ll cover three questions — and recommendations for each — to ask yourself on the front end of application development to save time when it comes to scale.

Compute

Fastly & Fauna aid Climatiq's data-driven climate decisions w/ distributed & serverless tech | Fastly

Emily Friedberg

Climatiq’s mission is to drive climate action through data and insight. In this blog post, we share how choosing Fauna as their database and Fastly’s Compute@Edge for their compute layer enabled Climatiq to achieve climate efficiency with their own architectures, and accelerate their ability to get their API in the hands of users.

WebAssembly
Compute

New Fastly POP in Christchurch, New Zealand | Fastly

Derek Rast, Stephen Gillies

We’re excited to announce our new point of presence (POP) in Christchurch, New Zealand, allowing us to offer Kiwi organizations, from budding startups, government agencies to global multi-nationals, greater resilience, higher network availability, and extended failover services.

Company news
Edge network

iCloud Private Relay and what it means for customers

Jana Iyengar

iCloud Private Relay is a new internet privacy service from Apple. With iCloud Private Relay, users with an iPhone, iPad, or Mac and an iCloud+ subscription can connect to and browse the internet and in a more secure and private way using Safari.

Engineering
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Join Fastly Security Labs: Try New WAF Features | Fastly

Daniel Corbett

Today, we’re happy to announce the launch of Fastly Security Labs, a new program that empowers customers to continuously innovate by being the first to test new detection and security features — ultimately shaping the future of security.

Security

Meet the next iteration of JavaScript on Compute

Christine Cole

Today we’re happy to announce that we’ve made several improvements to Compute that substantially boost the performance of the JavaScript runtime, as well as the overall developer experience on the platform.

Product
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Dept. of Know Live: Tips for asset management | Fastly

Daniel Miessler

Founder of Unsupervised Learning Daniel Miessler joined hosts Kelly Shortridge and Bea Hughes on The Dept. of Know Live! to chat about why we can’t ignore asset management’s role in security. In this blog post, Daniel shares highlights from the conversation.

Security

Introducing GraphQL Inspection for the Fastly Next-Gen WAF

James Nguyen

GraphQL is fast gaining popularity, and we’re excited to announce that we now support GraphQL Inspection in our Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences).

Security

Spring: CVE-2022-22963 & Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965) | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

In this post, we review details for two RCE vulnerabilities impacting Spring Cloud and Spring Framework, including how Fastly customers can protect themselves from this vulnerability.

Security

Fastly + Fanout: real-time messaging and edge computing combined | Fastly

Simon Wistow

We're thrilled to join forces with Fanout. The integration of Fanout technology into our network will help enable real-time app development at the edge with improved time-to-market, reduced friction, and unprecedented scale.

Company news
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Dept. of Know Live: Ellen Körbes on developer experience. | Fastly

Ellen Körbes

Ellen Körbes, Senior Product Line Manager at VMware Tanzu Kubernetes, joined hosts Kelly Shortridge and Bea Hughes on The Dept. of Know Live! to chat about how security falls short of developer expectations. In this blog post, Ellen shares highlights from the conversation.

Security