Credential Stuffing Attacks Vs. Brute Force Attacks - What is the difference?
Learn the difference between credential stuffing and brute force attacks, how each works, and best practices to prevent account takeover and unauthorized access.
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Credential Stuffing Attacks Vs. Brute Force Attacks - What is the difference?
Learn the difference between credential stuffing and brute force attacks, how each works, and best practices to prevent account takeover and unauthorized access.
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CDN vs Caching: What is the Difference?
CDN and caching can get confused for one another. Learn the differences between CDN and caching to help decide what you should use for optimal web performance.
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From Signal to Ship: How Your Feedback Powers Our Platform
Fastly's Voice of the Customer program turns every customer signal into action. Learn how your feedback shapes our product roadmap, driving continuous improvement and new features.
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AI Agents on Fastly Compute: How it Works and What Makes it Secure
Learn how to run AI agents on Fastly Compute, leveraging the edge for low latency and WebAssembly sandboxes for enterprise-grade speed and security.
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Rewriting HTML with the Fastly JavaScript SDK
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.
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Core Web Vitals: Improve Your Website Speed | Fastly
Understand Core Web Vitals, how Google measures page experience, and how a modern CDN improves LCP, INP, CLS, and site performance.
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The Cloud Rent Keeps Going Up. Let’s Fix It.
Reduce cloud egress costs with smarter caching, Origin Shield, and real-time visibility. Learn how Fastly helps control infrastructure spend.
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Stopping Bad Bots Without Blocking the Good Ones
Keep trusted automation running while blocking malicious bots. Learn how precise WAF controls reduce false positives without weakening security.
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Best WAF Solutions - 2025/2026
Discover the best WAF solutions for 2026. Compare Fastly, Cloudflare, Akamai, Imperva, F5, Fortinet and more for web app, API and microservice protection.
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Best DDoS Mitigation Providers - 2025/2026
Discover the best DDoS mitigation providers of 2025–2026 with in-depth comparisons on capacity, automation, visibility, and integration.
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You own your availability: resilience in the age of third-party dependencies
When third-party services fail, your website — and revenue — can fail with them. Learn how to uncover hidden dependencies and use edge proxying to maintain uptime, performance, and control during outages.
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When do you need low-latency HTTP live streaming?
Low-latency live streaming is more relevant than ever. New user experiences, like quizzes and real-time voting, built around content and entertainment must be available with little to no delay. In this post, we look at the business cases that warrant low-latency HTTP live streaming.
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DDoS in December 2025
Learn how sophisticated Layer 7 and network DDoS attacks evolved in December 2025, including the year’s largest attack and mitigation strategies.
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Using cURL to Test Origin Server Responses
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.
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Break Free from ESI Lock-in: Learn How to Migrate Today with Fastly
Migrate your legacy ESI to Fastly Compute. End vendor lock-in, run your ESI on a high-performance engine, and transition to a fully programmable edge.
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Lightweight Latency Measurement with Server-Timing
Measure end-to-end request latency with Server-Timing. See how origin, Fastly Compute, and CDN delivery timings appear in browser dev tools.
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When Moments Can’t Be Rehearsed, Preparation Is the Only Advantage That Scales
When everything is live and unforgiving, preparation is the only advantage. Learn how Fastly and Jerry Rice approach peak performance under pressure.
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Streamlining User Experiences While Fighting Bots
Streamline user experiences and fight bots with Fastly's new embedded challenges for Bot Management.
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DDoS in November
DDoS attackers were largely absent on Black Friday 2025. Fastly’s latest report reveals why, and what the shifting attack patterns mean for your apps and APIs.
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CISO Insights: 10 modern capabilities to revamp your security
Explore essential strategies for updating your security measures. Understand the importance of addressing vulnerabilities and optimizing resources for better protection.
