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Saving time and reducing rework with DRY code
Deanna Barshop
Following the DRY principle isn’t just for engineers. It also cuts the time it takes to make updates in multiple places and reduces errors for our documentation team.
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Why Fastly Changed its Control Panel Design
Jennifer Fleming
Over the past few months, we’ve rolled out a series of design improvements focused on text readability, easing eye-strain, and providing a seamless brand experience.
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Creating an Efficient Language with Zig | Fastly
Hannah Aubry
Zig is a general purpose programming language, meaning that if you have in front of you something that looks like a Von Neumann-ish, Turing-complete machine, you should be able to comfortably program it with Zig. Lately there has been a lot of interest in two such (virtual) machines: BPF and WebAssembly.
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Introducing GitHub Actions for Compute
Kailan Blanks
GitHub Actions for Compute allow you to transition from a manually deployed application to a fully automated deployment workflow with ease and wrap the Fastly CLI to provide an easy way to keep your application up to date.
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New ways to compose content at the edge with Compute
Andrew Betts
It's always been possible to create content programmatically, and with the advent of our serverless compute environment, we've made it possible to create and transform content more efficiently and powerfully than ever before.
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More is less: stop adding to your security tool technical debt
Brendon Macaraeg
Throwing new security tools at new threats results in scattershot protection and builds technical debt. Organizations need uniform protection for applications and APIs, regardless of where they live.
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API and ATO Security Challenge Addressed | Fastly
Brendon Macaraeg
New Fastly next-gen WAF dashboards surface security telemetry from more than 20 new signals for advanced attack scenarios, such as account takeover, credit card validation, and password reset.
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Using Kinesis Data Streams
Haley Lenner
Fastly now offers logging support for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, as well as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) functionality for S3 and Kinesis logging endpoints.
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Compute: porting the iconic video game DOOM
Justin Liew
id Software’s DOOM has become one of the most-ported games in history. It felt like a perfect project to port to Compute, built on our serverless compute environment, to experiment with different applications of the product.
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Fastly and Okta partner to lock down layer 7
Sean Leach
Layer 7 is a primary battleground for web application and API security. Fastly and Okta have partnered together to share threat intelligence, so security and development teams can better protect their systems.
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Compute@Edge: Serverless Insights by Company | Fastly
Kimmie Nguyen
Vox Media, Mux, and PerimeterX share how Compute is unlocking performance, agility, and creativity across their organizations.
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Building Security Mindset in Engineering
Kevin Rollinson
Explore how leaders from both sides of the aisle have built thriving secure DevOps cultures by putting trust in people first.
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You asked, we delivered: Terraform support for TLS is here
Joe Hoffend, Sudhir Patamsetti
Teams can now automate their Fastly TLS workflows through Terraform — including issuing certificates, retrieving TLS details, and performing other updates.
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Simplifying authentication with OAuth at the edge
Dora Militaru, Andrew Betts
The basic concept of performing authentication and then using identity data to make authorization decisions is something that applies to a large majority of web and native apps. Doing this at the edge offers some very significant advantages to both developers and end users.
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Fastly (Signal Sciences) repeated Customers’ Choice | Fastly
Andrew Peterson
Fastly (Signal Sciences) has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice for Web Application Firewalls in the 2021 Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer” report.
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Supporting women today and tomorrow | Fastly
Sam Perlman
The tech industry isn’t exactly known for gender inclusivity. We’re taking action to make progress, and committed to more equitable results for our employees and our community as a whole. See how we’re revisiting our recruiting practices to be more inclusive, and how we’re celebrating Women’s History Month together.
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Fastly looks back: 10 years of fond memories
Hannah Aubry
March 3 marked Fastly’s 10 year incorporation anniversary. In honor of the occasion, we interviewed a few of Fastly’s longest-tenured employees to share their memories and visions for the future.
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Reflecting on Fastly’s first-ever Global Week of Service
James White, Annette Cipollini
This year, we encouraged Fastlyans to take time out of the workweek to give back together, connect with colleagues, and contribute to organizations making a difference.
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Impact of mobile internet disruption in Niger
David Belson
In this blog post, we look at the impact of the internet service disruption in Niger from the perspective of Fastly platform traffic at a country, city, and network level.
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Next-Gen WAF for Microsoft Exchange | Fastly
Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more
Fastly’s security research team has built and deployed a rule to protect Signal Sciences Next-Gen WAF customers against the recently announced Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities.
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