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OpenTelemetry Part 1: Making the Edge less distant
Andrew Betts
One of the main reasons you use Fastly is that we are close to your end users, able to respond in a few milliseconds. But that can also make it feel like Fastly is "outside" your system, "in front". To feel like Fastly is truly part of your application architecture, you need to observe your whole system at the same time, in one place. OpenTelemetry is a new standard that can help.
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Fastly's observability and monitoring: empowering smart delivery and high performance | Fastly
Dom Fee, Lakshmi Sharma
In this post, we break down our current observability offering and highlight some of the ways DevOps and SRE teams are using Fastly to investigate anomalies, improve performance and up-time, and engage in observability-driven development.
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Bootstrap a Compute project with Fastly Fiddle
Mark McDonnell
The Fastly CLI now supports bootstrapping Compute projects using fiddles made in Fastly Fiddle as a template. This enables users to get a local developer environment up and running very quickly using one of many ready-made solutions from Fastly’s public code example library, which can then be adapted and customized for your own needs.
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Cloud Deploy simplifies Compute@Edge projects | Fastly
Kailan Blanks
We’re introducing Cloud Deploy, a wizard that helps you start building on Compute by deploying and customizing templates, and sets you up with an automated deployment workflow and best development practices.
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DevOps Practices Primed to Combat Threats | Fastly
Brendon Macaraeg
Organizations implementing DevOps practices often sacrifice security for speed, exposing them to potential threats. In reality though, many DevOps practices are already primed for security initiatives.
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The Importance of Securing Applications & Security in DevOps
Julie Rockett
Forrester’s 2021 Annual State of Application Security Report stresses the need for updated application security tools that can be easily integrated into development plans and architecture.
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Integrating Security in DevOps
Brendon Macaraeg
Your organization may have operational and cultural roadblocks to overcome when it comes to integrating security and DevOps. These tips can help you ensure a smooth transition to more secure DevOps.
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Building Security Mindset in Engineering
Kevin Rollinson
Explore how leaders from both sides of the aisle have built thriving secure DevOps cultures by putting trust in people first.
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Engineering leaders: security is your job, too
Sean Leach
The rise of secure DevOps has left many security professionals vying for the attention and support of their engineering counterparts. What can engineering leaders do to bridge the gap? We have four ideas to help you build security into your DevOps culture, workflows, and goals.
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The new rules for web app and API security
Sean Leach
Nearly everything we know about building web applications and APIs has changed in the last few decades. So why hasn't security? We argue it's time for a new approach to web app and API security, one that follows suit with how applications are really built and teams really work.
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Hard-earned insights from a pair of secure DevOps pros
Liam Mayron
Fastly CISO Mike Johnson and Brave Software Senior DevOps Engineer Ben Kero share their practical advice for cementing more holistic security practices within your CI/CD pipeline.
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Cloud Security for Developers
Stephen Kiel
If you’re evaluating web application security tools exclusively for their security requirements, you may be missing one of the most essential opportunities to successfully grow your secure DevOps culture: developer-centricity.
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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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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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5 tips for creating a secure DevOps culture
Kevin Rollinson
Integrating security into your DevOps cycle isn’t something that happens overnight. Here are five tips for building a culture in which secure DevOps can thrive, enabling your team to build secure apps quickly.
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HashiCorp on recovering from failures
Anna MacLachlan
Altitude NYC featured war stories from Fastly customers like Vogue, Spotify, and HashiCorp. Read on for our recap of Seth Vargo’s talk, where he discussed how HashiCorp was able to quickly recover from an outage (which included an alarming “purge all” moment).
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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.
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A step towards better Web API authentication
Toru Maesaka
The Fastly API is an integral part of our CDN — using our APIs, customers are able to instantly reflect configuration changes, purge content, and perform anything that is available on the Fastly control panel from within their application. In this post, Toru discusses our new API authentication method, API tokens.
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Automating Fastly with Terraform
Seth Vargo
HashiCorp’s Director of Technical Advocacy discusses Terraform, their tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently, and how they use it to codify Fastly configurations.
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Microservices war stories
Blithe Rocher
The popularity of implementing microservices in today’s application landscape continues to rise. There have been countless success stories focused on migrating from a monolithic architecture (a single large application stored in one code repository) to microservices, in which parts of application logic are broken into smaller functional services.
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