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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Capacity planning and network expansion in a remote-first world
Catharine Strauss
Get a behind-the-scenes look at how Fastly's approach to managing our network capacity, supply chain, and human capital allows us to observe, respond, and adapt to rapidly changing conditions on our globally distributed network.
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WAF & logging integrations added | Fastly
Mandy Sparber, Patrick Francois
Using integrations with BigQuery and Looker, we’ve created 15 chart templates that help you effectively monitor security events on your sites and applications, in real time.
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Purging Fastly using GCP cloud functions
Andrew Betts
When using Fastly in front of Google Cloud Storage, cloud functions can enable purging of Fastly’s edge cloud platform instantly and selectively to ensure content updates are seen by users immediately. Here, we’ll show you how.
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A COVID-19 Business Continuity Update from Fastly
Joshua Bixby
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic continues to unfold, our priority is the health and safety of our employees, customers, and partners. Importantly, we are ensuring that we provide seamless business continuity to our customers who rely on Fastly to enable a vast number of people across the internet to create content, watch videos, read articles, and search for news and information. Here are the key steps we are taking to ensure our business continuity to help support our customers’ businesses. We will provide updates as necessary via our blog, and you can always find current information at https://status.fastly.com/.
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How Network Automation Helps Fastly Live Streaming
Ryan Landry
How network automation, a small team of engineers, and key learnings from past extreme high-traffic moments allow us to support delivery performance at scale.
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