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Fastly’s Initial Public Commit
Today, we listed on the New York Stock Exchange, marking our first day of trading as a public company. Our IPO is a big milestone for Fastly, as well as a celebration of the collective success of our global community and customers. I am so proud of what we’ve built together — and this is just the beginning.
The lifecycle and performance of a Lucet instance
Lucet, Fastly’s open source WebAssembly compiler and runtime system, is designed to take WebAssembly beyond the browser, and build a platform for faster, safer execution on Fastly’s edge cloud. This post will introduce each step in the Lucet lifecycle, and benchmark its performance to highlight how we keep overhead low.
Expanding Fastly’s Partnership with Microsoft Azure | Fastly
We believe that developers should have the freedom to choose the best possible solution for their needs — without worrying about unpredictable costs. The internet should be a great experience for you and your team regardless of what platforms you use to digitally transform your business. That’s why we’re partnering with Microsoft Azure to offer cost-effective data transfer to our joint customers. Starting today, any outbound data transfer between select Azure regions and Fastly POPs will be highly available, and data transfer costs will be covered by Fastly through our agreement with Microsoft.
Feature policy: the web's missing guardrails
Over almost 30 years of its life, the web has grown beyond anyone's imagination, and the platform has become immensely powerful and flexible. With that power and flexibility comes complexity, and the potential for slow or insecure websites to deliver a poor user experience that drives people away from the web. Feature policy is here to help, and we've built a tool to show you how to use it.
Lucet Takes WebAssembly Beyond the Browser | Fastly
Today, we're thrilled to announce the open sourcing of Lucet, our native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. WebAssembly is a technology created to enable web browsers to safely execute programs at near-native speeds, and it's been shipping in the four major browsers since early 2017.
Supercharging Server Timing with HTTP trailers
Server Timing is a great mechanism for collecting new performance metrics in the browser. Fastly and Firefox have teamed up to make them even more powerful by adding support for using Server Timing with HTTP trailers.
Why Fastly loves QUIC and HTTP/3
We're thrilled to be so invested in QUIC, a new transport protocol that is more responsive, secure, and flexible than what the internet uses today. Learn why, straight from our very own Jana Iyengar, one of the editors of the core document.
New branding, same mission
We are building a more trustworthy internet: where developers can innovate faster, so good companies can do great things. To better capture that spirit, we’ve refreshed our branding.
Creating standards for CDNs
Content delivery networks (CDNs) have been around for a long time, but they’re not all built in the same way. While Fastly’s edge cloud platform goes beyond traditional content delivery networks by moving things to the edge, there are more fundamental differences; it’s not uncommon for CDNs to make up their own rules about how they serve web traffic, since CDNs didn’t exist when HTTP was defined. To improve this, we’re working alongside other platforms to standardize basic protocol handling for CDNs.
Guide for C and Rust programmers
Recently we launched Fastly Terrarium, a multi-language, browser-based editor and deployment platform where you can experiment with edge technology. Now, for those well-versed in C and Rust, we'll explore WebAssembly memory management and implementation.
Protecting Financial Applications at Scale
Security and development teams have a responsibility to secure customer data at the web application layer and stop attackers and Fastly's Next-Gen WAF can help.
Edge programming with Rust and WebAssembly
Take a developer deep dive into Terrarium, our multi-language, browser-based editor and deployment platform at the edge. Learn how to compile Rust programs to WebAssembly right on your local machine, interact with the Terrarium system, and explore some applications we’ve built with it.
How Terrarium reframes the compiler and sandbox relationship
Get hands-on with Terrarium, a Fastly project that lets developers harness the power of edge computing in the languages they already use. See how this technology demonstration came to be (and why we're even using that term), what problems it solves, and where it's headed.
Testing new ideas with Fastly Fiddle
Quickly experiment, debug and try out ideas on Fastly's platform, without signing up, or even logging in.
How edge innovation sparked Fastly Labs
We’re thrilled to introduce Fastly Labs, a hub of in-progress projects and big ideas for the developer community to interact with, all built upon our philosophy of trust, transparency, and Fastly’s long history of edge innovation.
How experimentation accelerates digital transformation
Experimentation goes beyond launching new features, to embodying a shift in technology, processes, and attitude. Learn how Reddit and The New York Times embraced experimentation to exceed their goals and continue their digital evolution.
Unicode in VCL
There's more to life than just the Latin alphabet. Because we’re a global platform with humans using all kinds of writing systems, recently we added the ability to write synthetic responses — e.g. a web page with an error message — in UTF-8 in Fastly VCL. In this post, Engineering Director Katherine Flavel shares some of the behind-the-scenes work to show how we did that.
Improve response, drive digital change | Fastly
The ability to get real-time data for your site or app, respond quickly, and see your changes reflected in real-time is crucial for businesses today. See the ways in which companies like HotelTonight and Gannett/USA Today have boosted their responsiveness, and freed up their teams to innovate.
Did you see that? Monitoring vs observability
You monitor distributed systems and log data, but what good does it do if you can't observe an actual problem when there is an issue? The reality is, you're drowning in log data and monitoring only gives you a high-level overview of a problem after it’s occurred. Enter observability.
Fastly delivers SOC 2 Type 2 for entire platform
At Fastly, we recognize that our edge cloud platform is an extension of your critical infrastructure and data flows. That means you may rightfully have questions about how we protect the data you share with us and how we can support your own security and compliance obligations. We view meeting those needs as part of our core values of transparency and trustworthiness. Today, we are happy to announce that Fastly has completed a Type 2 Service Organization Control 2 (SOC 2) examination for the management and monitoring of our edge cloud platform.
