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  • What benefits does "the edge" offer digital publishing? | Fastly

    Bridget Lane

    By bringing your content closer to the reader, you bypass the conventional cost and rules associated with server space and infrastructure maintenance, and you gain some additional benefits. Let’s explore them.

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  • Modern CDN for Digital Publishing

    John Agger

    The key to customer retention is serving the most up-to-date content instantly, personalizing that content for readers, and ensuring online experiences are responsive, safe, and secure. Here are three ways a modern content delivery network, or CDN, can help you do just that.

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    Streaming
  • 30 Years of Web: Future Demands

    Davin Camara

    As we look back to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the website, it’s also worth thinking about the next 30 years. There are a couple of areas where we — as engineers, developers, and builders in general — can champion innovation, mainly around architecture and security.

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  • Endless OS Foundation Bridges Digital Divide | Fastly

    Hannah Aubry

    The Endless OS Foundation saw a big spike in traffic at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But thanks to modern CDN features like soft purge, TTL, and segmented caching, they’re able to continue bridging the digital divide.

    Customers
    Performance
  • COVID boosts traffic across industries | Fastly

    David Belson

    Increased internet usage due to COVID-19 drove a ‘COVID bump’ in traffic across certain industry verticals, including digital media publishing, education, and social media.

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  • 3 Benefits CDN's Bring to Startups

    Simon Wistow

    A modern CDN can help improve SEO rankings, make it easier to deliver personalized content, and secure your sites and apps — three keys to a startup’s success.

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  • Startups & Modern CDN Benefits

    Simon Wistow

    See the 4 ways startups use CDNs to hit their goals and our list of recommended CDN providers.

    Industry insights
    Performance
  • 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. 

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  • API Focus for Commerce Companies

    Adrien Pujol

    As commerce companies embark on their digital transformation journeys, headless architecture is a hot topic. Here are five ways a modern CDN can deliver on the promise of headless commerce.

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  • Serving Dynamic Content with a Modern CDN

    Mark Teodoro

    Using a powerful, modern CDN that provides instant cache invalidation and real-time analytics allows for edge-first application architectures that improve personalization, performance, and protection.

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    Compute
  • The power of serverless, 72 times over

    Mark Teodoro

    Serverless technology has been making developers’ lives easier for years, but those benefits had yet to extend to end users. This is the true promise of edge serverless — enabling developers to solve for both operational overhead and a performant, consistent user experience, simultaneously.

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  • Code-splitting and minimal edge latency: the perfect match

    Andrew Betts

    Fastly Fiddle, our code playground tool, is a React single-page app that uses the excellent Monaco IDE component that powers VS Code. Problem is, Monaco is huge. And most uses of Fiddle are read only. Code-splitting removes the need to load a whole IDE to display some non-editable code. Let’s explore how.

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  • Leveling up observability with Compute

    MJ Jones

    Observability is hard. Distributed systems, dev and testing environments, and outside vendors all complicate the problem. With Compute, Fastly wants to make observability easier. Here’s what we’re doing.

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  • Why Compute does not yet support JavaScript

    Sean Leach

    Building our own compiler toolchain allows Compute to be both performant and secure. It also means we have to bring developers’ most-loved language into the fold in the right way.

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  • TLS 1.3 is faster, more robust, and now available

    Sudhir Patamsetti

    TLS 1.3 is now available for Fastly customers. The newest version of the TLS protocol, TLS 1.3 is designed to improve the performance and security of traffic served over HTTPS.

    Security
    Performance
  • 100 Tbps capacity: scaling for digital demands | Fastly

    Artur Bergman

    The growth of our global network allows us to stand at the ready with our customers, supporting and protecting their innovations at the edge.

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  • QUIC matches TCP's efficiency, says our research. | Fastly

    Kazuho Oku, Jana Iyengar

    Compare QUIC vs TCP to better understand the computational efficiency of both.

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  • Decoding the digital divide

    Jana Iyengar, Artur Bergman

    This series on the digital divide examines the data behind several yet-unexplored facets of the issue, the people and places it impacts most greatly, and what can and should be done to close this persistent gap.

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  • HTTP/3 and QUIC help needy connections | Fastly

    Patrick McManus

    HTTP/3 and QUIC aim to help the internet's so-called long-tail connections — connections that are most in need of improvement. What could that look like? For some, it could mean being able to actually use video calling and streaming media or even make a workable phone call. Let's look at the design principles that make these advancements possible.

    Industry insights
    Performance
  • How COVID-19 is affecting internet performance

    Artur Bergman, Jana Iyengar

    How is COVID-19 affecting internet performance? We analyzed regional and vertical trends and found that, despite COVID-19-related traffic increases, the internet is up to the challenge.

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