Fastly Update on 'Heartbleed'
Here’s the latest update on the ongoing resolution to critical OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2014-0160, aka ‘Heartbleed,’ which was announced on April 7th and affects nearly every Internet service provider and website using SSL to secure customer…
Fastly at PyCon 2014
This week, we’re traveling to Montreal for PyCon 2014. If you’ll be there, make sure to stop by booth #611 in the Exhibit Hall to chat with a Fastly engineer, explore our real-time analytics...
Steve Souders at Fluent 2014
We were thrilled to be a part of Fluent Conf 2014. Big thanks to everyone who stopped by the Fastly booth to chat with our engineers and pick up a Fastly shirt. If you...
Fastly at Fluent 2014
The Fastly team is attending Fluent this week in San Francisco. We’ll be at booth #206 right next to our friends from New Relic. Come by to talk with one of our engineers, grab...
Fastly Welcomes New Executive Team Hires
Today, we’re excited to welcome three new Fastly team members.
API Caching, Part III
In this, our final API Caching installment, we’re going to explore how to use Surrogate Keys to reduce the overall complexity of caching an API.
Building a Fast and Reliable Purging System
At Fastly, we’re always working to make our systems faster and more reliable. One of the more difficult problems we’ve faced is efficient cache invalidation across our global network, or as we call it: <a...
How Fastly Chooses POP Locations
Build a network that can scale indefinitely, be managed by a small crew of skilled ops and network engineers, and handle current web traffic and the next generation of protocols. Sounds impossible, right? …
API Caching, Part II
In Part 1, we covered the basics of using Fastly to accelerate a comments API. Using Instant Purge, we hooked into model callbacks to ensure that the appropriate content was purged from the...
New Fastly Logging Features
Over the last few months, we’ve completely overhauled Fastly’s entire logging infrastructure to keep up with our ever-increasing traffic. In addition to improving efficiency and reliability, we added features to make it easier for our…
Jason Cook at Linux Conference Australia 2014
Last week, Fastly engineer Jason Cook spoke about TCP tuning at the 2014 Linux Conference in Australia. His session covers tuning several aspects of your application and the underlying TCP stack to deliver the best…
Introducing Version Diff
Since day one, we’ve baked the concept of versions right into our system at a fundamental level. We want customers to feel empowered to try new things and to be able to quickly roll them...
