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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
    + 3 more

  • 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
    + 3 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

  • 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

  • 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
    + 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

  • No-origin, static websites at the edge!

    Katsuyuki Omuro

    Many of the world's websites are static, and Fastly’s content delivery network gets those pages from origin to visitors quickly. But what if we took the origin out of the equation?

    Engineering
    Compute

  • OpenTelemetry part 4: Instrumenting Fastly Fiddle

    Andrew Betts

    We are very excited about OpenTelemetry. We wrote about why, and also about how to emit telemetry from Fastly's VCL services, and our new Compute platform. But OpenTelemetry's value truly shines when you add it to everything in your stack. What does that look like and is it worth it? We instrumented Fastly Fiddle, from top to bottom, to find out.

    Engineering
    Compute

  • Write less, do more at the edge: Introducing expressly

    Dora Militaru

    Build faster with Expressly on Fastly’s edge. Simplify routing, cookies, and errors in JavaScript apps with less code.

    Product
    + 3 more

  • ESI and the story of libraries built for the edge

    Kailan Blanks

    Traditionally, content delivery networks have been built upon a proprietary core product which is supported by equally proprietary add-ons such as image optimization and content filtering. Fastly has always done a bit better than this – from the beginning, building our network on the Varnish cache gave our customers the ability to fully program how requests were served at the edge. However, the constraints of VCL, the domain-specific language used to configure Varnish, meant that you were limited to only the features that we chose to offer.

    Engineering
    + 2 more

  • Private Access Tokens: A CAPTCHA-less future | Fastly

    Jana Iyengar, Jonathan Foote

    At its core, Private Access Tokens present a privacy-respecting, anti-fraud and authorization framework. This blog post provides an overview of what it does and how developers can try it out with Fastly and Apple today.

    Engineering

  • iCloud Private Relay and what it means for customers

    Jana Iyengar

    iCloud Private Relay is a new internet privacy service from Apple. With iCloud Private Relay, users with an iPhone, iPad, or Mac and an iCloud+ subscription can connect to and browse the internet and in a more secure and private way using Safari.

    Engineering
    + 2 more
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