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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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Engineering leaders: security is your job, too
Sean Leach
The rise of secure DevOps has left many security professionals vying for the attention and support of their engineering counterparts. What can engineering leaders do to bridge the gap? We have four ideas to help you build security into your DevOps culture, workflows, and goals.
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Terms of Service update: Fastly and Signal Sciences
Fastly Legal Team
Fastly is updating its Terms of Service to make it easier to purchase Fastly and Signal Sciences under a single, unified contract.
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COVID boosts traffic across industries | Fastly
David Belson
Increased internet usage due to COVID-19 drove a ‘COVID bump’ in traffic across certain industry verticals, including digital media publishing, education, and social media.
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CEO Srivishnu Piratla on "Tech for Good"
Hannah Aubry
Hear from the CEO of Tech for Good, Srivishnu Piratla, as he outlines how teaching computer science skills can support underserved communities and businesses, drive international efforts for connectivity, and inspire the broader tech community to get involved.
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3 Benefits CDN's Bring to Startups
Simon Wistow
A modern CDN can help improve SEO rankings, make it easier to deliver personalized content, and secure your sites and apps — three keys to a startup’s success.
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Traffic patterns and user behaviors from Super Bowl LV
David Belson
This year, Fastly joined multi-vendor tech stacks to help stream the Super Bowl for multiple digital media customers, providing us with a unique perspective of online behavior during the game. Across our network, we also observed traffic trends for social media, meme creation and sharing, and online retail.
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CISOs in 2021: What's driving change? | Fastly
Kevin Rollinson, Zane Lackey
After a year of abrupt changes and urgent pivots, CISOs head into 2021 with a new set of challenges: implementing change at scale, accelerating transformation timelines, and reimagining secure app development in the age of APIs.
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Compute Log Tailing for better observability and debugging | Fastly
Edward Muller
Compute Log Tailing allows developers on the Fastly Computer@Edge platform to quickly iterate on and debug their services by getting near-real-time feedback via stdout/stderr output.
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The new rules for web app and API security
Sean Leach
Nearly everything we know about building web applications and APIs has changed in the last few decades. So why hasn't security? We argue it's time for a new approach to web app and API security, one that follows suit with how applications are really built and teams really work.
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Demos and starter kits: new ways for you to learn and build
Andrew Betts, Hannah Aubry
We’ve overhauled our developer solutions content, adding two new content formats and reorganizing our popular recipes and solution patterns. Meet our new code examples, tutorials, demos, and starter kits!
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More than Bernie memes: what we saw during Inauguration Day
David Belson
The inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris was unique for many reasons, not the least of which was the lack of crowds due to the COVID-19 pandemic and increased security measures. Fastly analyzed aggregate Requests per Second (RPS) traffic on Fastly’s platform for customer cohorts across social media, digital media, meme, and other verticals.
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Startups & Modern CDN Benefits
Simon Wistow
See the 4 ways startups use CDNs to hit their goals and our list of recommended CDN providers.
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Debugging QUIC with H2O and QLog
Toru Maesaka
QUIC is a secure low-latency transport layer protocol that is commonly known as the transport protocol of HTTP/3. Here, we’ll discuss how we added support for QLog, an incremental QUIC endpoint logging format, to H2O, an open- source HTTP server that we deploy throughout our edge cloud platform.
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Live-Streaming Event Checklist
Dima Kumets
With high quality-of-experience expectations around live-streaming events, no content owner can afford not to have the right plan in place. Here are the crucial steps to take when planning your live-streaming event.
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Improving network availability with Precision Path
Rob Bushell
Fastly introduces Precision Path to address short-lived network congestion issues, for improved protection from transient provider issues for origin server requests, and a more robust delivery of content to your end users.
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