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  • The evolution of blocking

    David King, Sina Siar

    Flexibility is required for confident blocking decisions that impact as little legitimate traffic as possible. Learn more about the evolution of blocking.

    Security
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  • When it comes to delivering the first byte, nobody can beat Fastly

    Lucas Olslund

    Fastly is 29% faster than edgio when it comes to delivering the first byte. It’s representative of overall gains in LCP and performance.

    Company news
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  • Don’t just take our word for it — Forrester says that Fastly Compute is a “Leader”

    Anil Dash

    The report recognizes Fastly as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023.

    Company news
    + 3 more

  • 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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  • Fastly is faster at time to first byte. It makes a difference.

    Lucas Olslund

    Fastly is 43% faster to first byte (TTFB) than Akamai CDN, and 32% faster than other CDNs, and it’s representative of overall gains in LCP and performance.

    Company news
    + 2 more

  • 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

  • Network Effect Threat Report: Uncovering the power of collective threat intelligence

    Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 3 more

    Announcing the Network Effect Threat Report, Fastly’s threat intelligence report with insights based on unique data from April to June of 2023

    Security
    + 2 more

  • Join Fastly at Black Hat 2023

    Shelly Kolvitz

    Black Hat 2023 is just around the corner! Come visit the Fastly booth and join us for exciting presentations and giveaways.

    Company news
    + 3 more

  • Regex in retrograde

    Kelly Shortridge

    If we want to outmaneuver attackers, then we must progress beyond regex into a more modern era of detection.

    Industry insights
    Security

  • Community Spotlight: Una Thompson is Making the Fediverse More Manageable with Jortage

    Hannah Aubry

    Jortage is a communal project that provides object storage and hosting and deduplicates object storage for pool members, reducing everyone's overall storage costs. Learn how they use Fastly to keep costs low and make the Fediverse faster and more engaging.

    Culture
    + 2 more

  • Join Fastly at RSA Conference 2023

    Julie Rockett

    The 2023 RSA Conference is around the corner. Come visit the Fastly booth and join us for exciting presentations and giveaways.

    Company news
    + 3 more

  • Three industry developments to track at NAB 2023

    John Agger

    Here are three big media & entertainment industry developments to follow at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2023.

    Industry insights
    Streaming

  • Filter PNGs for Acropalypse using Compute

    Andrew Betts

    The Acropalypse put improperly cropped images (and privacy issues) all over the internet. Here’s how Fastly’s Compute could help you clean them up.

    Industry insights
    Compute

  • Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.2

    Simon Wistow

    This is the sequel (aka 2 Fastly 2 Fediverse) of a recent blog post where we wrote about the Fediverse and how we think we can help.

    DevOps
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  • Healthcare Under DDoS Attack: Solutions | Fastly

    Akil Muralidaharan

    Here’s everything you need to know to secure your organization against DDoS attacks like those hitting the US healthcare system by the KillNet hacking group.

    Security
    Industry insights

  • Command Injection CVE-2021-25296: A Deep Dive

    Fastly Security Research Team, Matthew Mathur

    NagiosXI versions 5.5.6 to 5.7.5 are vulnerable to three different instances of command injection.

    Security
    Industry insights

  • Delivering Super Bowl for more than a decade -- and breaking records in the process

    John Agger

    2023 marks the 11th year of Fastly’s involvement in the Super Bowl. Back in 2013, we secured dedicated bandwidth to online businesses advertising throughout the game. However, since 2018 Fastly has been actively involved in delivering the live Super Bowl stream from broadcasters to millions of online viewers around the globe.

    Streaming
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  • Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.1

    Simon Wistow

    We care deeply about all things open source and standards, and we’re excited to see how the Fediverse grows in the coming months. Today, we're explaining how it works and how we support it.

    Industry insights
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  • Examining Chrome's TLS ClientHello Permutation | Fastly

    Jonathan Foote, Arun Kumar, + 2 more

    On January 20th, Chrome shipped an update that changed the profile of one of the most popular TLS client fingerprinting algorithms, JA3. In this short blog post we’ll describe the change and our observations across Fastly's network.

    Industry insights
    Security

  • Streaming Continued to Grow in 2022, With Some Surprises

    John Agger

    Here are the main trends (and a few surprises) Fastly encountered in streaming in 2022, and what we expect in the future.

    Streaming
    Industry insights
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