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  • Improving your WebSocket stack

    John Agger

    Websocket limitations can be costly and inefficient if you want to push a lot of real-time content. Discover how Websockets paired with Fastly Fanout improves real-time communication.

    Compute
    + 2 more

  • Stay ahead of attackers by pushing your security perimeter to the edge

    Blake Dournaee

    An effective edge security strategy can provide significant benefits and protect organizations from the continually evolving threat landscape.

    Security
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  • A modular Edge Side Includes component for JavaScript Compute

    Katsuyuki Omuro

    Fastly’s ESI library for JavaScript, now available on npm, allows you to add powerful ESI processing to your application.

    Edge network
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  • TLS: More secure; always fast

    Emmanuel Thompson

    This post details the journey of improving the security of TLS private keys and improving the performance and efficiency of TLS handshakes along the way.

    Privacy
    + 4 more

  • How to Protect Against Credential Stuffing

    Arun Kumar, Fastly Security Research Team

    In this post, we will discuss a low latency approach to detect these attacks by co-locating the password hashes in a KV Store, along with Compute on Fastly’s edge.

    Compute
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  • Introducing Fastly's Edge Secret Store | Fastly

    MJ Jones

    Fastly’s Secret Store is a global secrets management solution that helps you extend protected access to your origins, applications, and other resources on the Fastly edge.

    Compute
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  • Fastly Packages Just Got an Upgrade

    Dom Soegono, Delen Trance

    Fastly's product packages just got even better. Check out the latest features coming to our Network Services package and more!

    Company news
    + 4 more

  • BoringSSL to make TLS more secure

    Roberto Guimaraes, Wayne Thayer

    Replacing OpenSSL with BoringSSL was to reduce the frequency of CVE response and improve the security of our TLS termination system for our customers.

    Security
    + 4 more

  • Fastly Fanout makes stateful real-time communications easy

    Ashley Vassell

    Fastly Fanout makes stateful, real-time communications easy for everyone – with or without WebSockets. Fanout takes the load off of you by taking the load off your origin.

    Performance
    + 3 more

  • 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

  • Unified Origin Observability at Fastly

    Ajay Bharadwaj, Dom Fee

    We are pleased to announce that Origin Inspector, Fastly’s turnkey origin visibility product, is now available to Compute customers.

    Compute
    + 2 more

  • Building in Real-Time with Pushpin

    Ashley Vassell

    We are excited to announce that Pushpin is now part of the Fast Forward program! It acts as a proxy server that pins client connections open, making it easy to build real-time API endpoints.

    Edge network
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  • Get Better Visibility with Edge Observer, Now in Public Beta

    Dom Soegono, Henry Zhang

    Over a year ago, we embarked on a journey to build an all-encompassing, flexible interface to centralize visibility and insights across your Fastly account and services. Today, we are excited to bring this new interface, Edge Observer, into public beta - now available to all accounts and customers.

    Edge network
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  • HTTP/3 and QUIC free for all customers | Fastly

    Jana Iyengar

    QUIC version 1 is officially formalized, and QUIC deployments will now move away from using temporary draft versions to the newly minted version 1.

    Company news
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  • New Fastly POP in Christchurch, New Zealand | Fastly

    Derek Rast, Stephen Gillies

    We’re excited to announce our new point of presence (POP) in Christchurch, New Zealand, allowing us to offer Kiwi organizations, from budding startups, government agencies to global multi-nationals, greater resilience, higher network availability, and extended failover services.

    Company news
    Edge network

  • Fastly named Leader in commercial CDN by IDC MarketScape | Fastly

    Joshua Chase

    We are honored to announce that Fastly has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Commercial CDN Services 2022 Vendor Assessment.

    Company news
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  • OSM uses CDN for instant updates | Fastly

    Hannah Aubry

    OpenStreetMap, a member of our open-source program, moved from a proprietary content delivery network to ours and saw improvements in speed, customizability, and innovation.

    Customers
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  • Fastly's 2021 in Review

    David Belson

    In this post, we’ll take a look back at the past year through the eyes of our edge cloud network to explore what we saw across new protocol adoption, security initiatives, network growth, and more.

    Industry insights
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  • Summary of June 8 outage

    Nick Rockwell

    We experienced a global outage due to an undiscovered software bug that surfaced on June 8 when it was triggered by a valid customer configuration change. Here's a rundown of what happened, why, and what we're doing about it.

    Company news
    + 2 more

  • Improving network availability with Precision Path

    Rob Bushell

    Fastly introduces Precision Path to address short-lived network congestion issues, for improved protection from transient provider issues for origin server requests, and a more robust delivery of content to your end users. 

    Performance
    + 3 more