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  • Join Us at Xcelerate LA: Connect, Learn, and Innovate

    Shelly Kolvitz

    Connect, learn, and innovate with Fastly at Xcelerate LA on May 14th. Unlock the power of a superior online experience with a series of inspiring sessions, live demos, and more!

    Platform
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  • Start your next Fastly Compute JavaScript application with npm init

    Katsuyuki Omuro

    If you're using Fastly Compute, the `npm init` script makes it easy to set up your projects with familiar tools.

    Compute
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  • Why having more POPs isn’t always better

    Simon Wistow

    We’re often asked why having more POPs doesn’t necessarily make a CDN faster. To help illustrate, we’ll use an analogy of convenience stores versus supermarkets.

    Performance
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  • 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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  • Key Trends in Edge Computing and AI Adoption: A Conversation with Google Cloud

    Chris Buckley

    Learn about the latest trends in edge computing, including insights from industry experts on how AI and modern CDNs are reshaping content delivery and user interaction.

    CDN & Delivery
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  • Thanks to the internet’s on-call teams

    Austin Spires

    Thank you for the essential role that on-call teams play in ensuring internet reliability and security, particularly during the holiday season. We appreciate your dedication.

    Culture
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  • 2024: End of Year Product Release Rewind

    Leigh Clancy

    We’re always improving the Fastly platform to enable developers, security experts, and more! See an overview of the product releases that we unveiled in 2024.

    CDN & Delivery
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  • Websites get faster when moving to Fastly

    Lucas Olslund

    Get real-time content control, boost performance, and develop modern applications, all faster at the edge. See how Fastly stacks up against Cloudflare.

    Performance
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  • Fastly's POPs in Minneapolis, Montreal, and Madrid

    Tom Daly

    We’re pleased to announce an alliteration of new POPs to the Fastly network: Minneapolis, Montreal, and Madrid. We’ve deployed these POPs to expand our reach throughout the Central United States, Canada, and southwestern Europe.

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  • Building Edge: 40 POPs, 15 Tbps Capacity | Fastly

    Tom Daly

    We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added a collection of new POPs to the Fastly global network. Since our last update, we’ve deployed additional US POPs in Chicago, Newark, Ashburn, and Los Angeles, plus a brand-new location in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Fastly’s global network now exceeds 15 Tbps of connected internet capacity, and we will continue to scale alongside our rapidly growing customer base.

    Performance
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  • Exercising Caution As COVID-19 Situation Evolves

    Joshua Bixby

    Fastly’s mission is to build a trustworthy internet where good can thrive. Given that the situation related to COVID-19 is rapidly evolving, we believe an abundance of caution is prudent, and are implementing several precautionary measures to help minimize the risk of COVID-19 to our employees, our customers, and the communities in which we participate.

    Platform

  • Capacity planning and network expansion in a remote-first world

    Catharine Strauss

    Get a behind-the-scenes look at how Fastly's approach to managing our network capacity, supply chain, and human capital allows us to observe, respond, and adapt to rapidly changing conditions on our globally distributed network.

    Performance
    Platform

  • Fastly + Fanout: real-time messaging and edge computing combined | Fastly

    Simon Wistow

    We're thrilled to join forces with Fanout. The integration of Fanout technology into our network will help enable real-time app development at the edge with improved time-to-market, reduced friction, and unprecedented scale.

    Company news
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  • Fastly product design: Creating enterprise experiences | Fastly

    Jennifer Fleming

    At Fastly, we design for a delightful enterprise experience by looking deeply at customer needs. In this post, our Director of Product Experience shares some of the similarities and differences between B2C and B2B design she’s discovered in her journey of becoming an enterprise design lead, and how we implement human-centric design at Fastly.

    Product
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  • Four reasons you should try Fastly’s Image Optimizer

    James Sherry

    Major brands with strong web presences like The Guardian and Big Cartel rely on Image Optimizer to serve pixel-perfect images on the fly. Here are four reasons why you should try it out too.

    Platform
    Product

  • Get App & Infrastructure Visibility with Inspectors | Fastly

    Dom Soegono, Dom Fee

    We are excited to launch two new great visibility products into general availability - Origin and Domain Inspector! Observe origin performance or domain traffic with ease! Find out more in this blog post announcement.

    Platform

  • Live sports delivery challenges conquered | Fastly

    John Agger

    With zero tolerance for rebuffering and streams that scale from zero to massive in no time, the stakes are unusually high, making live sport the most demanding content type to deliver, requiring both flexibility and resiliency.

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  • Interview with HUMAN CEO Tamer Hassan

    Lakshmi Sharma

    Fastly announced a reseller partnership with HUMAN Security, Inc. to better safeguard enterprises and internet platforms from sophisticated bot attacks and fraud. We sat down with HUMAN CEO and Co-founder Tamer Hassan to learn more about bots, and what HUMAN is doing to protect its customers from the threat.

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  • Introducing the Redesigned Fastly Status Page

    Corben Henry

    The Fastly status page is unveiling a new design and enhanced functionality, including information on more products, as well as improved preferences on customer view, subscriptions, and notifications.

    Product
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  • 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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