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  • Try Fastly for free through AWS Marketplace

    Mili Mathews

    It’s now easier than ever to try Fastly CDN through the AWS Marketplace with a no-commitment free account.

    Product
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  • Fastly Control Panel's new and improved billing data

    Jonathan Speek, Gomathi Rajesh

    The Fastly team has been working hard on improving the Fastly Control Page, including the new and improved billing and plan usage dashboards.

    Customers
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  • Patch that Vuln! Identify, Triage, and Qualify CVEs

    Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa

    Vulnerabilities are an unfortunate inevitability. However, when using a WAF there are options for your security teams while waiting for a patch.

    Security
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  • 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

  • Preventing outages with resilient architectures

    Laura Thomson, Inés Sombra, + 1 more

    Fastly’s resilient architecture principles prevent outages, mitigate severity, and deliver on our availability promises without compromising performance.

    Industry insights
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  • How Fastly Protects its customers from Massive DDoS threats including the novel Rapid Reset attack

    Frederik Deweerdt, Marcus Barczak, + 2 more

    The Rapid Reset DDoS attack did not affect Fastly traffic because we can automatically detect and defend against attacks that others can’t.

    Engineering
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  • Building a Resilient Database for Fastly's CA

    Prachi Jain

    Learn about Certainly’s database architecture which allows for efficient storage and retrieval of certificate data.

    Product
    Engineering

  • Don’t Let Your CDN Get in the Way of Your Continuous Development Needs

    The Fastly Collective

    Continuous integration is the process of completely automating code commit and test practices, thereby avoiding a manual workflow that is inefficient and subject to human error.

    Engineering

  • Yes, of course we’re faster. But we’re also more secure.

    Lakshmi Sharma

    Stop choosing between speed and security. Here’s how Fastly customers get better security AND improve performance (and reduce complexity and save money too).

    Company news
    + 6 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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  • 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

  • Designing Next-Gen WAF Sites for your Organization

    Brooks Cunningham, Travis Sanders

    Flexible options for deploying Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF are critical for getting your security running effectively, quickly, and with the right structure for your organization.

    Security
    + 2 more

  • Introducing Config Store: storing and updating configuration data at the edge just got better

    MJ Jones

    Config Store is a low-latency, key-value data store. It simplifies storing configuration data at the edge allowing you to deliver faster app experiences.

    Product
    Engineering

  • Introducing Cloud WAF Terraform Support

    Liam Mayron

    Terraform, from HashiCorp, enables DevOps teams to deploy cloud infrastructure as code. Fastly supports Terraform across our product lines and today we’re excited to share enhancements to our Next-Gen WAF Terraform provider for our Cloud WAF deployment model which will further streamline operations for our secure DevOps users.

    Security
    + 2 more

  • TLS Key Size: Why Bigger isn't Always Better | Fastly

    Wayne Thayer

    TLS key size has a recommended length of 2048 bits, but that does not mean you can not go bigger or smaller. In this post, we explore the various TLS key sizes by examining the function of the TLS certificate and the cryptographic operations used by TLS.

    Security
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  • Is it time for ECDSA certificates?

    Shane Burgess

    For 40 years, RSA certificates have been the industry standard for Transport Layer Security (TLS). But we’re seeing a shift – especially as the prevalence of high-traffic cyber attacks continues to grow.

    Security
    + 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

  • Using Client Hints to Detect Disparities

    Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa

    Learn how User-Agent Client Hints work, explore privacy-related features and concerns, and how the partial adoption and incompleteness of this emerging standard can be used to detect behavior disparities.

    DevOps
    + 2 more

  • Secure multi-cloud environments: Enterprise journey to the cloud

    Jay Coley

    As organizations go through a digital transformation of their processes and how they engage with their customers, they are often ready for a multi-cloud environment.

    Security
    + 2 more

  • Run your Next.js app on Fastly

    Katsuyuki Omuro

    With our new next-compute-js library, you can now host your Next.js application on our Compute@Edge platform – giving you the benefits of both the Next.js developer experience and our blazing-fast, world-wide edge network, and you don't even need an origin server.

    Engineering
    Compute
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