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100 Tbps capacity: scaling for digital demands | Fastly

Artur Bergman

The growth of our global network allows us to stand at the ready with our customers, supporting and protecting their innovations at the edge.

Product
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Fastly: Life led by People, Process, and Technology.

Brian Flood

Our unique approach to business continuity planning focuses not just on ensuring that our systems remain operations, but also that our processes and people have the backup and support they need. Here’s a template to make it yours.

Culture

Core Web Vitals: Improve Your Website Speed | Fastly

Mike Perez

Understand what Core Web Vitals means and how you can improve some of these metrics with a CDN configuration.

Industry insights

Black Lives Matter: We are taking a stand.

Joshua Bixby, Maurice Wilkins, + 2 more

We have a responsibility to use our platform and our privilege to say that Black Lives Matter — and commit to the work that statement entails.

Culture

Fastly and devs invest in WebAssembly | Fastly

Pat Hickey

WebAssembly is helping to lay the foundation for the future of edge computing. And together with the Bytecode Alliance and the developer community at large, we’re investing in new technologies to make WebAssembly easier and more performant.

WebAssembly
Compute

From our community: top serverless trends and challenges

Brynne Hazzard

Unpack the trends with serverless, as seen from our Compute beta community: from the top use cases and benefits, to the perceived challenges with serverless as a whole.

Compute

Fastly Developer Hub: All you need to build on Fastly | Fastly

Adam Denenberg

Our Developer Hub has everything developers need to build apps and websites at the edge. Solve problems faster with code samples developed by Fastly’s experts.

Product
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Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast?

Patrick McManus

QUIC promises a built-in, low-latency handshake. But can it achieve its promise alone? Let’s look at the value of handshake compression in helping QUIC achieve fast startup performance.

Life at Fastly: bringing the Fastly spirit remote

Amy Hammond

Ensuring employee success is more than just making sure they have the right equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s also about finding a balance between work life and social life, and supporting teammates with activities that let them know we’re all in this together.

Culture

Fastly's COVID-19 employee care | Fastly

Erica Perkins

A healthy internet starts with healthy people. To take care of Fastlyans, we’re proactively surveying our people, boosting internal communications, focusing on mental health and wellness, and improving manager resources.

Culture

QUIC matches TCP's efficiency, says our research. | Fastly

Kazuho Oku, Jana Iyengar

Compare QUIC vs TCP to better understand the computational efficiency of both.

Industry insights
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Decoding the digital divide

Jana Iyengar, Artur Bergman

This series on the digital divide examines the data behind several yet-unexplored facets of the issue, the people and places it impacts most greatly, and what can and should be done to close this persistent gap.

Industry insights
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Evaluating new languages for Compute

Aaron Turner

Learn about our process and approach for evaluating which new languages our serverless compute environment — Compute — will support next.

WebAssembly
Compute

Generous, innovative, resilient: this is the web at its best

Joshua Bixby

We’ve long recognized that the organizations in our community build more than applications and codebases. In this unprecedented global moment, our customers, partners, and friends are showing up for their communities in generous and innovative ways. Here are a few we’re applauding.

Customers
Culture

HTTP/3 and QUIC help needy connections | Fastly

Patrick McManus

HTTP/3 and QUIC aim to help the internet's so-called long-tail connections — connections that are most in need of improvement. What could that look like? For some, it could mean being able to actually use video calling and streaming media or even make a workable phone call. Let's look at the design principles that make these advancements possible.

Industry insights
Performance

COVID-19 response: people first | Fastly

Joshua Bixby

It’s been more than a month since going fully remote, and I’m reflecting on our internal response, how it’s shifted weekly based on learnings, and what it all says about our values and community.

Culture

How COVID-19 is affecting internet performance

Artur Bergman, Jana Iyengar

How is COVID-19 affecting internet performance? We analyzed regional and vertical trends and found that, despite COVID-19-related traffic increases, the internet is up to the challenge.

Performance
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$50M Support for Nonprofits & Open Source

Joshua Bixby

In light of COVID-19, we’re expanding our Open Source and Nonprofit Program, and more actively investing in organizations supporting good in the world.

Culture
Company news

Four key innovations that prepared the internet for COVID-19

Patrick McManus

These crucial pieces of internet architecture — only widely adopted over the last 10 years — are creating the capacity for us to live, work, and learn from home in unprecedented conditions.

Industry insights
Performance

Fastly expands logging endpoints

Dom Fee

Fastly now supports new logging endpoints Elasticsearch, New Relic Logs, Google Pub/Sub, and an HTTPS endpoint to empower developers to work the way they want.

Observability