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How to Tame Varnish Memory Usage Safely
How Fastly turned a shelved Varnish idea into 25% fewer memory writes and real system-wide gains.
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The CDN Showdown: Fastly Outpaces Akamai in Real-World Performance
As user expectations rise and milliseconds define outcomes, choosing a modern, high-speed CDN is no longer optional but a strategic imperative. Independent Google data shows Fastly consistently outperforms Akamai in real-world web performance.
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In AI We Trust? Increasing AI Adoption in AppSec Despite Limited Oversight
AI adoption in AppSec is soaring, yet oversight lags. Explore the paradox of trust vs. risk, false positives, and the future of AI in application security.
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Design for Chaos: Fastly’s Principles of Fault Isolation and Graceful Degradation
Learn how Fastly builds a resilient CDN through fault isolation & graceful degradation. Discover our principles for minimizing disruption & ensuring continuous service.
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Top CDN Providers for 5G in 2026
Compare top CDN providers for 5G performance and learn how edge compute, low latency, and modern protocols enable streaming, gaming, IoT, and immersive experience
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Fastly's Seven Years of Recognition as a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice
Fastly was named a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Cloud WAAP, marking seven consecutive years of recognition driven by customer trust and reviews.
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Make Sense of Chaos with Fastly API Discovery
Discover, monitor, and secure your APIs with Fastly API Discovery. Get instant visibility, cut the noise, and keep your APIs secure and compliant.
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From Climate Week NYC to Fastly’s 100% Renewable Commitment
Fastly commits to 100% renewable electricity coverage across its global network and offices, advancing a sustainable internet and supporting customers' climate goals.
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4 Tips for Developers for Using Fastly’s Sustainability Dashboard
Track the real-world emissions of your Fastly workloads. This blog shares practical tips on using the Sustainability dashboard for greener, faster code.
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Fastly’s Pillars of Resilience: Building a More Robust Internet
Discover Fastly's Pillars of Resilience: unwavering availability, minimized latency, and disruption resistance for a robust internet experience with our global network.
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The Tools Gap: Why Developers Struggle to Code Green
77% of developers want to code sustainably, but most lack the tools to measure impact. Fastly’s survey reveals the barriers and opportunities in green coding.
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Publish your website without a host
Deploy static sites to Fastly Compute directly from your browser or IDE. Publish blogs, apps, and websites at the edge without hosting.
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Teach Your robots.txt a New Trick (for AI)
Control how AI bots like Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended use your website content for training. Update your robots.txt file with simple Disallow rules.
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Fastly + Scalepost: Extending the Fastly platform to manage AI Crawlers
See when and how AI chatbots use your content. With Fastly and ScalePost, publishers finally gain visibility into how their work shows up in AI-generated answers.
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DDoS in August
August 2025 DDoS attack trends: Hyperscale clouds are the source for 70% of attacks. Get insights on the latest application DDoS trends to strengthen security.
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Control and Monetize Your Content with the RSL Standard
AI crawlers are scraping the web, often ignoring rules and costing publishers resources. The new RSL Standard lets you block, allow, or even charge AI for access to your content. Here’s how it works.
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CISO Perspective: Q2 2025 Threat Insights Report
Explore Fastly's Q2 2025 Threat Report through our CISO, Marshall Erwin's eyes. Uncover bot traffic insights and key security practices.
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Sustainability dashboard: Shine a light on your digital carbon footprint
Fastly's Sustainability dashboard provides instant access to electricity-related Scope 2 & 3 emissions data. Understand and optimize your digital carbon footprint with ease.
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Bridging the real-time testing gap: Fanout support in local development for Fastly Compute
Fastly Compute now supports local Fanout testing, letting you build and validate real-time features without deploying to production.
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Powering PyPI with Advanced Traffic Engineering
PyPI serves millions daily. See how Fastly’s Individual Provider Anycast unlocks faster, smarter routing for Python’s package index.
