Let’s build the good internet. Together.
Fast Forward Program
The internet is a pretty neat place. It’s where the world’s most creative minds gather to build things that benefit everyone. Open source, open standards, or just the open internet — with every contribution, you make the internet even better.
But we know you can’t do it alone. We see you. And we want to support you through our Fast Forward program.
Let's build a more trustworthy internet through our Fast Forward program
How we grow the open internet
Fast Forward Program
To nurture and support those who share our vision of an open internet that is fast and secure for all, we extend free services to eligible open source projects and nonprofits that support them.
Building the open internet
As a critical component of the internet infrastructure community, we feel responsible for contributing our expertise to the communal body of knowledge that makes up internet standards.
Our contributions
Many of our products are built on or use open source technologies, and maintainers and contributors gather on Glitch to build the open web. We encourage Fastlyans to contribute back to open source projects and open source our own technology when possible.
Our customer community
Just as we choose to hire individuals who are good people—who are trustworthy and who demonstrate integrity—we choose to work with customers and partners who have integrity, are trustworthy, and reflect our values.
Proudly powering the open source the world relies on
Your work inspires us. You build meaningful, indispensable tools that make the internet work and improve people’s lives. And you do it, often without pay or thanks, and typically in your spare time. We intend to chip away at the worry about what your project’s success will cost you. We proudly support open source projects, and the foundations that support them, with free and discounted services.
We can’t wait to get to know you. To apply, fill out the form and let us know how your project is:
Open—the license is important, and how projects build off the values of open source and open collaboration
Community-centered, inclusive, and friendly to contributors
Built on trust — we're looking for projects that are working towards secure and trustworthy in process
Apply to confirm eligibility, and we’ll reach out for more information about your technical needs!
Serving open source since 2014
Serving the best of the internet
The phrase “you’re only as good as the company you keep” is a guiding principle. It speaks not just to the conduct and business ethics of Fastly’s employees, it extends to our partners, customers, and the internet. Doing what’s right for our network and the brands who want to be there benefits not only our employees and customers, but everyone. We choose to work with customers and partners that we believe have integrity, are trustworthy, and who reflect Fastly’s values.
Fastly Labs
Standards & Protocols
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WebAssembly/ WASI
Wasm is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine and is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications. The WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) is a capability-based set of standardized host APIs. Fastly uses these two standards to enable per-request isolation and lightweight sandboxing for our serverless environment, Compute@Edge.
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HTTP3/ QUIC
QUIC is a new, ground-breaking transport layer network protocol; over 1 billion people already use QUIC every day as part of what they do on the web. Fastly is a member of the working group which developed QUIC, as well as HTTP/3, which operates on top of QUIC. In April 2022, we enabled QUIC and HTTP/3 for our entire customer base at no additional charge.
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Private Relay
Private Relay uses a dual-hop architecture to disguise information like your IP address and DNS records, preventing your personal information from being shared with your internet provider or the websites you visit. Fastly contributed to defining the standard for Private Relay and serves as a third-party content provider for requests sent through Private Relay.
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Passkeys
Based on industry standards for account authentication, Passkeys are easier to use than passwords and far more secure. Passkeys replace passwords with cryptographic key pairs, which prevents them from being guessable and keeps them safe from nefarious activities like server hacks or phishing. Fastly worked with our partners at Apple, alongside Microsoft and Google, to develop and standardize the technology behind Passkeys.
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Private Access Tokens
Private Access Tokens are an alternative to CAPTCHAs for supported client platforms. They use careful application of cryptography and requirements to guarantee that a website learns only exactly what it needs to know about a user to provide access to a resource. Fastly worked with our partners at Apple, alongside Microsoft and Google, to develop and standardize the technology behind PATs.
Our open source projects
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Wasmtime/ Cranelift
Wasmtime is a fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly, built on Cranelift, a low-level retargetable code generator, which quickly generates high-quality machine code either at runtime or ahead-of-time. Wasmtime is optimized for efficient instantiation, low-overhead calls between the embedder and Wasm, and scalability of concurrent instances.
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H2O
H2O is an optimized HTTP server which can also be used as a library. It’s very fast, providing much quicker responses to end-users.
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wit-bindgen
This project is a bindings generator framework for WebAssembly programs and embeddings of WebAssembly. With wit-bindgen, language ecosystems can add support for the WebAssembly component model. This makes it easy to mix code from different language ecosystems into the same application in a performant and safe way.
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Quicly
Quicly is a modular IETF QUIC protocol implementation, designed primarily for use within the H2O HTTP server.
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Pushpin
Pushpin is a proxy server that pins client connections open, making it easy to build realtime API endpoints. Pushpin supports HTTP streaming, HTTP long-polling, and WebSockets. Since Pushpin is a proxy server, the backend can be written in any language. Convenience libraries are available to make integration easy.
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WAF Efficacy
The WAF efficacy framework provides a standardized way to measure the effectiveness of a WAF’s detection capabilities. It provides the ability to perform continuous assessments of simulated attacks to test different attack types and distills the results into an overall score that can be used for point-in-time knowledge, or trends of effectiveness.