Best Practices for Using the Vary Header
Vary is one of the most powerful HTTP response headers. Used correctly, it can do wonderful things. Unfortunately, this header is frequently used incorrectly, which can lead to abysmal hit ratios. Worse still, if it’s…
More Advanced Security Features for Your Fastly Account
Security is one of our top priorities at Fastly. We recognize that having your account compromised could have a profoundly negative impact on your business, leaving you and your customers vulnerable and at risk. So,...
Adaptive Plots Using Epoch
Introduced in the most recent release (0.6.0), adaptive plots add a level of flexibility and interaction that was sorely missing in the library. In this post, we’ll talk about what this means, and how you…
Caching “Like” and “Share” Buttons
In a blog post about caching with tracking cookies, I explained how Fastly’s edge scripting language allows businesses to cache things that were previously uncacheable as well as send data back via our...
Test New Encodings With Fastly, Including WebP
At Fastly, we believe that the freedom to experiment is what makes the web great. We’re excited by the cutting edge breakthroughs in file encodings that are happening almost every day, making the web better…
Fastly at OSCON 2014
Next week, we’ll be traveling up to beautiful Portland, Oregon to attend OSCON, O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention. We’re extremely excited to sponsor, attend, and speak at the conference this year.
Announcing our Inaugural Varnish Meetup in NYC
Over the past few years, the various boroughs of New York have come together to build a very active technology community. We’ve been attending a lot of these community events, and now we’ve decided to…
Introducing Epoch, a Real-Time Visualization Library
Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve taken Fastly's stats tools one step further and distilled our visualization code into a stand-alone open source library. Introducing Epoch: a general purpose, real-time visualization library. …
Fastly at Velocity Santa Clara 2014
We’re excited to be at Velocity Santa Clara this week (June 24-26) to talk about the future of web performance, meet new people, and participate in a few offsite events!
Level Up Your Log: Pro Tips for Streaming Logs
Streaming logs is one of our most popular features. It’s fast and flexible, giving operations teams more data from the edge than ever before and in real time. Since its release, we’ve seen Fastly customers…
A Cache Recipe for Success
With Fastly, you have the freedom and flexibility to completely customize your caching settings. From respecting Cache-Control headers sent from your origin servers to allowing you to granularly set rules for any object or set…
Announcing the Fastly Drupal 7 Module
We’re always looking for ways to make it easier to integrate with Fastly. Recently, we’ve targeted a few high-profile frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails, and built plugins for them. This week, we’re...
