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Improving HTTP with structured header fields
The HTTP community has been busy modernizing the web’s protocol over the last decade, with multiple revisions of the core specification, a number of extensions, HTTP/2, and now HTTP/…
Network error logging: collecting failure conditions from end users
Network error logging reports client-side failures and successes, enabling developers to understand how their sites function in the real world and how they might improve performance. In this…
A standard cryptography API for WebAssembly
In this post we will describe the motivations for a standard WebAssembly cryptography API, the challenges of designing such an API for this programming language, and the work Fastly has…
Google’s Core Web Vitals: ensuring your site is ready for Google’s next major update
Google recently announced three new metrics they’re calling Core Web Vitals that can impact your search rankings. We’ll walk you through what each one means and how one of them can be…
Can QUIC match TCP’s computational efficiency?
While many of the people building and planning to use QUIC are eager to see wide deployment, there are concerns over whether QUIC can be as computationally efficient as TCP. We ran the tests…
How HTTP/3 and QUIC aim to help the connections that need it most
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…
Four key innovations that prepared the internet for COVID-19
These crucial pieces of internet architecture — only widely adopted over the last 10 years — are creating the capacity for us to live, work, and learn from home in unprecedented conditions.
Three ways TLS 1.3 protects origin names
The newest version of Transport Layer Security, TLS 1.3, is faster, more robust, and more responsive than ever before. Explore three ways it will help HTTPS protect origin names for improved…
Modernizing the internet with HTTP/3 and QUIC
Fastly’s QUIC and HTTP/3 beta is coming soon. Join the waitlist and discover how these two new protocols solve the modern internet’s problems.
How the internet changed in 2019 (and what to expect in 2020)
Take a look back at 2019’s major shifts in internet infrastructure, and understand what they mean for the future of the internet in 2020 and beyond.
Fastly and partners form WebAssembly-based, open-source community Bytecode Alliance
Fastly teams up with Mozilla, Intel, and Red Hat to form the Bytecode Alliance, an open-source community working together on WebAssembly-based compiler tools and foundations that work across…
The Maturing of QUIC
QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a…