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Leon Brocard

Principal Solutions Architect, Fastly

Leon Brocard is an orange-loving Principal Solutions Architect at Fastly with many varied contributions to the Perl community. He loves using open source to get things done. https://fosstodon.org/@orangeacme

  • The lengthiest HTTP headers

    Leon Brocard

    Discover how large HTTP headers can impact your web page's loading speed. Learn about essential headers and strategies to optimize their size for better performance.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 2 more

  • Profiling Fastly Compute Applications

    Leon Brocard

    Unlock superior web performance with Fastly Compute. Utilize our edge network and WebAssembly to build fast, secure applications tailored for your users.

    Compute
    + 2 more

  • 5 tips for creating speedier, more sustainable websites with Fastly

    Leon Brocard

    How can Fastly help improve website performance and digital sustainability? Check out these five key recommendations.

    CDN & Delivery
    Performance

  • It's now easier than ever to write Fastly VCL

    Dora Militaru, Leon Brocard

    After last year's release of our Visual Studio Code extension, Fastly VCL, we have an exciting upgrade, to make it even easier.

    DevOps
    Engineering

  • How to write Rust unit tests for your Compute application

    Leon Brocard

    Wondering if your edge applications are working? Time to test! In this post, we'll explore how to unit test for a Rust application using Viceroy.

    Compute
    Edge network

  • ETags: What they are, and how to use them

    Leon Brocard

    How to optimize your ETags to speed up your site and reduce calls to your origin without requiring significant code refactoring or content overhaul.

    DevOps
    + 2 more

  • Syntax highlight Fastly VCL files in Visual Studio Code

    Leon Brocard

    With Fastly’s new Visual Studio Code extension, Fastly Varnish Configuration Language (VCL), you can now syntax highlight Fastly VCL code.

    DevOps
    Engineering

  • How to test site speed optimizations with Compute

    Leon Brocard

    In this post, we show how to test site speed modifications before implementing them using Compute and WebPageTest, a web performance tool that uses real browsers, to compare web performance between the original and transformed page versions.

    Engineering
    Compute

  • Originless & Cloud-Based Services with Fastly + Terraform

    Leon Brocard

    In a previous post, HashiCorp’s Seth Vargo introduced the Terraform infrastructure-as-code tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure. In this post, we’ll cover two cases using Terraform with Fastly: first we’ll create and manage an originless service and then we’ll create and manage a Google Compute Engine instance with a Fastly service in front of it.

    DevOps
    Engineering

  • Introducing fastly2git: version change visualization

    Leon Brocard

    Sales Engineer Léon Brocard created fastly2git, a Git repository for Fastly service changes, making it easy for you to see differences between versions. In this post, Léon discusses how fastly2git works, and how it can help you continue building great services on Fastly.

    Engineering
    Compute
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