Back to blog

Follow and Subscribe

All blog posts

Page 25

  • The power of serverless, 72 times over

    Mark Teodoro

    Serverless technology has been making developers’ lives easier for years, but those benefits had yet to extend to end users. This is the true promise of edge serverless — enabling developers to solve for both operational overhead and a performant, consistent user experience, simultaneously.

    Performance
    + 2 more

  • Adobe boosts performance and MTTR with Epsagon and Fastly logs | Fastly

    Simon Wistow

    Working together, Epsagon and Adobe’s Project Helix team built a very cool integration that uses clever parsing of Fastly VCL to generate tracing statements showing what variables have been created, updated, or deleted at every stage of a request and response in our platform.

    Product
    Observability

  • Use One Set of Credentials for Multiple Fastly Accounts

    Joe Hoffend

    Gone are the days of maintaining separate credentials for multiple accounts. Multi Account User Access allows you to log in to multiple Fastly customer accounts with a single set of credentials.

    Product

  • Exploring 103 Early Hints Beyond Server Push | Fastly

    Mark Nottingham

    Many people think that the 103 Early Hints HTTP status code can help web performance in certain situations, but we won’t know until we get data about it, and without that data, browsers won’t support it. If your site has content like that described in this post, please consider joining this experiment.

    Engineering

  • Code-splitting and minimal edge latency: the perfect match

    Andrew Betts

    Fastly Fiddle, our code playground tool, is a React single-page app that uses the excellent Monaco IDE component that powers VS Code. Problem is, Monaco is huge. And most uses of Fiddle are read only. Code-splitting removes the need to load a whole IDE to display some non-editable code. Let’s explore how.

    Performance
    + 2 more

  • Meet AssemblyScript: your next computing language

    Aaron Turner

    AssemblyScript is a variant of TypeScript that produces WebAssembly binaries, the binary format that powers Fastly’s Compute@Edge. It’s a new technology supported by all major browsers, and relative to JavaScript, it offers predictable performance, making WebAssembly well suited for computationally intensive tasks. Let’s dig in on why AssemblyScript is your next computing language.

    Product
    + 2 more

  • Compute@Edge with CLI, Terraform API & Language Support | Fastly

    Tyler McMullen

    Now running production traffic, Compute takes a leap forward in delivering on the promise of highly performant, secure, and globally distributed serverless computing with the introduction of powerful new functionality and tooling.

    Company news
    + 2 more

  • How Compute is tackling the most frustrating aspects of serverless

    MJ Jones

    Serverless solutions are good news for developers, but they can cause plenty of headaches, including cold starts, regional latency, and a lack of observability. Compute, Fastly’s serverless compute environment — built on Wasm and run globally — can help solve those problems.

    WebAssembly

  • Signal Sciences named Visionary in 2020 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls for second year | Fastly

    Kevin Rollinson

    We believe Signal Sciences’ innovation earned them recognition in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAF, and it’s this kind of innovation that excites us as we merge forces — now that Signal Sciences is part of Fastly.

    Product
    Security

  • Fastly Introduces Two Solutions for Quality | Fastly

    Dima Kumets

    With two new solutions, Fastly is empowering video engineers to address the growing streaming-at-scale challenge head on with enhancements to its video-on-demand and live event services capabilities, helping them deliver quality user experiences no matter what their end users are streaming.

    Product
    Streaming

  • Fastly invests in teams & communities for voter engagement | Fastly

    Maurice Wilkins

    Now more than ever, engaging in our democracy is critical — and Fastly is invested in making sure our internal community has the tools and resources to do so effectively.

    Culture

  • Engage young voters, drive civic engagement | Fastly

    Hannah Aubry

    DoSomething.org, part of our Open Source and Nonprofit Program, believes in activating young people to support change. And in the face of COVID-19 and a U.S. election year, they’ve imagined all-new ways to connect with users and driver voter engagement.

    Customers

  • Lessons Learned from Side-Channel Attacks

    Patrick McManus

    The largest category of difficult-to-anticipate security design weaknesses come from side-channel attacks. In this post, we take a tour of some of the more foundational and out-there side channel-related exploits that have afflicted the security conscious over the years.

    Industry insights
    Security

  • Better diff view from feedback & research | Fastly

    Joe Hoffend, Sayali Deshmukh

    We’ve made improvements to our diff view by combining customer testing, feedback, and requests with our own inspiration with diff experiences we enjoy using. The result is an enhanced diff view experience that we think you’ll enjoy as much as we do.

    Product

  • Terraform now supports all Fastly logging endpoints

    Dom Fee, Joe Hoffend

    We’ve been hard at work at Fastly this year working on updates to our Terraform provider and have some exciting ones to announce: Terraform now supports all our logging endpoints, plus Fastly web application firewall customers can now manage their WAF within Terraform.

    Product

  • Fastly and Signal Sciences join forces

    Joshua Bixby, Andrew Peterson

    Today, Fastly completed the acquisition of Signal Sciences and took a giant step forward toward our vision of modern, unified web application and API security. We will call on our shared view of empowering developers as we chart a path toward building an incredibly secure, performant platform and unlock all-new possibilities, together.

    Company news
    Security

  • BuzzFeed Optimize Gif-heavy Content with new Fastly Feature

    Dom Fee

    Fastly’s new Image Optimizer feature converts animated gifs to MP4 videos for a faster load time, smoother experience, and significant savings on end-users’ bandwidth. In fact, the new feature was able to condense BuzzFeed’s 250 MB, browser-freezing “100 Greatest Gifs of all Time” article to a much more manageable 6 MB.

    Company news
    Product

  • Web Application Firewall (WAF) Best Practices

    Liam Mayron

    Following WAF best practices is imperative to keep your business and customers secure. Learn about new regulations and security tips.

    Security

  • The state of QUIC and HTTP/3 2020

    Jana Iyengar

    QUIC and HTTP/3 have entered the final stages of development at the IETF. Distinguished Engineer, Jana Iyengar, elaborates on the current state of the protocols, their deployment across the internet, and his expectations for QUIC and HTTP/3 in the near future.

    Industry insights
    Engineering

  • Deploying network error logging with Compute

    Patrick Hamann

    We’ve been experimenting with Network Error Logging with Fastly Insights and discovered that processing the NEL reports is a great use case for Compute. In this post, we’ll look at our first attempt to build a NEL reporting pipeline, discuss where there was potential for optimization, and how Compute solves these problems while introducing performance and security improvements along the way.

    Product
    + 3 more
Fastly
© Fastly 2025