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First things first: six resources for building on Fastly
Jacob Rosenbacher
If you’re among our newest community members, we’d love to show you more of what Fastly has to offer. Once you’ve covered the basics of our getting started guide, check out the resources in this article to take our programmable edge cloud platform further.
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State at the edge
Peter Bourgon
With the introduction of Compute, Fastly provides a richer model for the CPU. WebAssembly, powered and secured by the Lucet compiler and runtime, unlocks essentially arbitrary code execution within each request lifecycle. This raises the immediate question: what would a richer model for memory, or state, look like?
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The Future of Zero Trust: Continuous Authentication
The Fastly Collective
Being able to continuously authenticate users’ access to critical web and API services without causing them to pay the price of increased friction may sound like a lofty goal. Still, it can be achieved by integrating technologies you likely already have. Combining technologies built to continuously monitor applications and APIs for attacks and anomalous behavior with identity technologies already deployed to authenticate users allows administrators to protect their critical applications without inconveniencing the user.
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What is Cache Control?
Mark Nottingham
The Cache-Control response header is one of HTTP’s more widely known header fields; it allows a site to control how caches handle their data in CDNs, browsers, and elsewhere
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Leveling up observability with Compute
MJ Jones
Observability is hard. Distributed systems, dev and testing environments, and outside vendors all complicate the problem. With Compute, Fastly wants to make observability easier. Here’s what we’re doing.
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TLS 1.3 is faster, more robust, and now available
Sudhir Patamsetti
TLS 1.3 is now available for Fastly customers. The newest version of the TLS protocol, TLS 1.3 is designed to improve the performance and security of traffic served over HTTPS.
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Why Compute does not yet support JavaScript
Sean Leach
Building our own compiler toolchain allows Compute to be both performant and secure. It also means we have to bring developers’ most-loved language into the fold in the right way.
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Improving HTTP with structured header fields
Mark Nottingham
The HTTP community has been busy modernizing the web’s protocol over the last decade, with multiple revisions of the core specification, a number of extensions, HTTP/2, and now HTTP/3. Unfortunately, the way we define and use HTTP header fields hasn’t changed much since the beginning, with underspecified headers (and lots of different ways to handle them) causing interoperability issues, developer pain, and even security problems. But help is coming.
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User error logs collected | Fastly
Hooman Beheshti
Network error logging reports client-side failures and successes, enabling developers to understand how their sites function in the real world and how they might improve performance. In this post, we’ll explore the NEL framework, how it provides visibility, and ways to collect and process the resulting data.
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Reflecting on our inclusion and diversity journey
Maurice Wilkins
There’s been an outpouring of corporate statements supporting Black Lives Matter over the past few weeks— but statements of solidarity don’t matter unless they are backed by action designed to create real change. We’re taking a look back at our diversity and inclusion journey, and the ongoing work we need to do as a company to manifest our aspirations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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