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  • Outages, Attacks, and a Need for Resilience

    Austin Spires

    Cloud outages are a stark reminder of our digital economy's fragility. Learn how Fastly mitigated a major traffic failover and concurrent DDoS attacks with zero disruption.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 4 more
    Fastly's resilient architecture helps prevent outages and mitigate severity

  • Optimizing your multi-CDN infrastructure to improve performance

    Natalie Griffeth

    Learn how a multi-CDN infrastructure can, and should be, optimized for performance. Get tips from Fastly on considerations to evaluate against your current content delivery strategy.

    CDN & Delivery
    Performance

  • Building Scalable Waiting Rooms with Fastly Compute

    Brock Norvell, Terri Allegretto, + 1 more

    Control website traffic and prevent server overload with Fastly Compute waiting rooms. Learn how to build scalable, customizable queues for high-demand events.

    Compute
    + 4 more

  • Optimizing Web Performance: Unpacking Fastly’s Intelligent Compression Defaults

    Stephen Stierer, Anjan Srinivas

    Optimize web performance with Fastly's intelligent compression defaults. Learn how Gzip and Brotli shrink payload sizes, reduce costs, and speed up your site.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 2 more

  • Rewriting HTML with the Fastly JavaScript SDK

    Sy Brand

    Boost web performance with Fastly’s JS SDK v3.35.0. Use the new streaming HTML rewriter to customize, cache, and transform pages faster and more efficiently.

    Compute
    + 4 more
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  • Resilience by Design: Lessons in Multi-Cloud Readiness

    Austin Spires

    Stay online when it matters most. Learn how Fastly's multi-cloud and edge strategies protect against outages, keeping your systems fast and reliable.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 2 more
    Prepare for peaks

  • A Smarter ACME Challenge for a Multi-CDN World

    Shiloh Heurich

    Optimize your multi-CDN setup with Fastly's new dns-account-01 ACME challenge. Eliminate label collisions and enhance certificate management.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 3 more

  • How to Tame Varnish Memory Usage Safely

    Daniel Axtens

    How Fastly turned a shelved Varnish idea into 25% fewer memory writes and real system-wide gains.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 4 more
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  • 4 Tips for Developers for Using Fastly’s Sustainability Dashboard

    Leon Brocard

    Track the real-world emissions of your Fastly workloads. This blog shares practical tips on using the Sustainability dashboard for greener, faster code.

    Performance
    + 3 more

  • Fastly’s Pillars of Resilience: Building a More Robust Internet

    Brian Haberman

    Discover Fastly's Pillars of Resilience: unwavering availability, minimized latency, and disruption resistance for a robust internet experience with our global network.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 4 more

  • Request Collapsing Demystified

    Stephen Crim

    Boost website performance with request collapsing! Learn how it improves efficiency, reduces origin load, and optimizes caching for a snappy user experience.

    Performance
    + 2 more
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  • Trust at Scale with Fastly Image Optimizer and C2PA

    James Sherry

    Fastly Image Optimizer now supports C2PA, enabling verifiable content authenticity. Combat misinformation and build trust with secure image provenance at scale.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 2 more

  • Fastest Sites Run on Fastly

    Leon Brocard

    Make your site 25%+ faster with Fastly’s programmable edge. See why the fastest media sites — from Vox.com to Business Insider — run on Fastly.

    Performance
    + 2 more

  • ETags: What they are, and how to use them

    Leon Brocard

    How to optimize your ETags to speed up your site and reduce calls to your origin without requiring significant code refactoring or content overhaul.

    DevOps
    + 2 more

  • Taking Back Control: How Publishers Can Push Back on Unwanted AI Scraping

    John Agger

    Take control of AI scraping. Learn how publishers can push back against unwanted data harvesting with Fastly's AI Bot Management & new monetization opportunities.

    Security
    + 2 more

  • Unlock Faster Web Performance: The Data Behind Fastly's Edge Over Akamai

    Lucas Olslund

    Discover why migrating from Akamai to Fastly boosts web performance. Our data shows 57% faster TTFB & 17% faster LCP, based on real-world CrUX data.

    CDN & Delivery
    Performance

  • Over a decade later: The evolution of instant purge

    Tyler McMullen, Julien Benoist

    Explore the decade-long evolution of Fastly's instant purge technology. Learn about our decentralized approach, challenges faced, and innovations in scalability.

    Performance
    + 2 more

  • Using cURL to Test Origin Server Responses

    Matt Torrisi

    Curl, or cURL, is a utility that’s shipped by default on operating systems like MacOS and many Linux distributions that allows you to send an HTTP request to a URL and receive the result. In this post, we’ll walk you through how to use the tool to test an origin server’s response.

    Engineering
    Performance

  • Building vs Buying a CDN: Choosing the Right Global Network Infrastructure

    John Agger

    Should you build or buy a CDN? Learn the pros and cons of building vs. using CDN services for your global network infrastructure. Make the right choice for your business.

    Performance
    + 2 more

  • Empowering the Open Web: How Fastly Supports Organizations Like ToS;DR

    Austin Spires

    Empowering the Open Web: Learn how Fastly supports ToS;DR, a non-profit that makes internet terms of service easy to understand and improves online transparency.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 2 more
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