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Cloud Deploy simplifies Compute@Edge projects | Fastly
Kailan Blanks
We’re introducing Cloud Deploy, a wizard that helps you start building on Compute by deploying and customizing templates, and sets you up with an automated deployment workflow and best development practices.
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Fastly's 2021 in Review
David Belson
In this post, we’ll take a look back at the past year through the eyes of our edge cloud network to explore what we saw across new protocol adoption, security initiatives, network growth, and more.
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What benefits does "the edge" offer digital publishing? | Fastly
Bridget Lane
By bringing your content closer to the reader, you bypass the conventional cost and rules associated with server space and infrastructure maintenance, and you gain some additional benefits. Let’s explore them.
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Origin Inspector: Monitor origin traffic from the Fastly UI
Dom Fee
Origin Inspector provides you with a dataset and visualizations that offer real-time and historical visibility into responses delivered from your origin servers to our edge cloud. And we’re happy to say that it’s now in limited availability.
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WAF framework measures WAF effectiveness | Fastly
Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 1 more
Our new WAF efficacy framework provides a standardized way to measure the effectiveness of a WAF’s detection capabilities through continuous verification and validation. Here’s how it works.
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Log4Shell attacks (CVE-2021-44228) insights | Fastly
Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more
We’re sharing our latest data and new insights into the Log4j/Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228 + CVE-2021-45046) in this post in order to help the engineering community cope with the situation. We also share our guidance around testing your environment against many of the new obfuscation methods that have been seen.
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Log4Shell exploit found in Log4j | Fastly
Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more
CVE-2021-44228 is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the Apache Log4j library being actively exploited. We provide our observations into the exploit and a summary of its impact.
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30 Years of Web: Building for Tomorrow
Lee Chen
The web’s infrastructure — and the applications we build on it — must constantly evolve to meet the ever-transforming expectations of modern and future end users. We’ve gathered five lessons today’s builders can use to drive the next three decades of the web.
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Grinch bots penalized w/ enriched security data & our edge cloud platform | Fastly
Brooks Cunningham
In this post, we’ll show how you can use information from an origin response to add an abuse IP address to our penalty box. We've been touting the promise of security at the edge, and this is just one example of what it can do.
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Lies, stats, debunking Cloudflare | Fastly
Andrew Betts, Laura Thomson, + 1 more
A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.
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Cyber Five 2021: new normal or back to before times?
David Belson
We analyzed traffic from Thanksgiving Thursday to Cyber Monday in order to understand the traffic, buying, and security trends of ecommerce's big week.
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30 Years of Web: Securing Tomorrow
Mike Johnson
To create more secure and resilient web experiences, we must design, build, and execute applications with security top of mind, and consider how the lessons of the past 30 years inform how we think about the future of security.
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Modern CDN for Digital Publishing
John Agger
The key to customer retention is serving the most up-to-date content instantly, personalizing that content for readers, and ensuring online experiences are responsive, safe, and secure. Here are three ways a modern content delivery network, or CDN, can help you do just that.
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Use After Free flaw in Lucet-runtime
Fastly Security Research Team, The Fastly Security Technical Account Management Team
On November 11th 2021, Fastly Engineering received alerts related to segmentation faults on Compute@Edge. A Fastly investigation into CVE-2021-43790, a bug in Lucet, a dependency of Compute@Edge, is disclosed in a recent Bytecode Alliance security advisory. Fastly investigations have not identified additional impact outside of the single case disclosed in this advisory. It's our goal in this Fastly Security Advisory to illustrate our knowledge about the bug discovered and the actions we have taken to prevent further possible impact to our customers.
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30 Years of Web: Future-Ready Apps
Jana Iyengar
Many websites today are really applications, and we should be building them as such. To do that, we need application architectures and networks that are capable of supporting fast, secure, and scalable user experiences. We must embrace a more dynamic mindset in how we approach web development and consider the tools we need to get there.
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30 Years of Web: Future Demands
Davin Camara
As we look back to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the website, it’s also worth thinking about the next 30 years. There are a couple of areas where we — as engineers, developers, and builders in general — can champion innovation, mainly around architecture and security.
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Company culture in a hybrid work environment
Simon Wistow
In this video from Web Summit 2021, we discuss how you build and ensure your company culture when you have some team members in person and some at home.
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Subresource monitoring with Compute
Fastly Security Research Team
Compute, our serverless compute environment, can be used to solve headaches dealing with attackers looking to modify and manipulate resources. In this post, we tell you how.
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You can now test Compute code in Fastly Fiddle
Andrew Betts
Fastly customers have been using our Fiddle tool for years to try out ideas for edge logic in VCL. With the advent of Compute last year, we made our edge compute network accessible to any language that compiles to WebAssembly, and now you can write Compute code in Fiddle too.
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Get started with Fastly logging and Compute@Edge | Fastly
Alex Kesler
In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the basic steps of outputting messages to STDIO and tailing that output with the Fastly CLI as well as configuring a log streaming endpoint, emitting logs in your application, and confirming the delivery of those logs to your target logging destination.
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