DDoS in September

All blog posts

• DDoS in September

  Liam Mayron, David King, + 1 more

  Fastly's September 2025 DDoS report details modern application attacks. Get insights and guidance to strengthen your security initiatives.

  October 17, 2025

  Security

  Industry insights

  

• 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.

  October 09, 2025

  CDN & Delivery

  + 4 more

  

• In AI We Trust? Increasing AI Adoption in AppSec Despite Limited Oversight

  Natalie Lightner

  AI adoption in AppSec is soaring, yet oversight lags. Explore the paradox of trust vs. risk, false positives, and the future of AI in application security.

  October 08, 2025

  Security

  Industry insights

  

• The CDN Showdown: Fastly Outpaces Akamai in Real-World Performance

  John Agger

  As user expectations rise and milliseconds define outcomes, choosing a modern, high-speed CDN is no longer optional but a strategic imperative. Independent Google data shows Fastly consistently outperforms Akamai in real-world web performance.

  October 08, 2025

  

• Design for Chaos: Fastly’s Principles of Fault Isolation and Graceful Degradation

  Brian Haberman

  Learn how Fastly builds a resilient CDN through fault isolation & graceful degradation. Discover our principles for minimizing disruption & ensuring continuous service.

  October 07, 2025

  CDN & Delivery

  + 4 more

  

• Fastly's Seven Years of Recognition as a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice

  Kim Ogletree

  Fastly was named a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Cloud WAAP, marking seven consecutive years of recognition driven by customer trust and reviews.

  October 01, 2025

  Company news

  + 2 more

  

• Make Sense of Chaos with Fastly API Discovery

  Lorraine Bellon, Anna Jensen

  Discover, monitor, and secure your APIs with Fastly API Discovery. Get instant visibility, cut the noise, and keep your APIs secure and compliant.

  September 30, 2025

  Security

  Product

  

• From Climate Week NYC to Fastly’s 100% Renewable Commitment

  Eoghan Kelly

  Fastly commits to 100% renewable electricity coverage across its global network and offices, advancing a sustainable internet and supporting customers' climate goals.

  September 29, 2025

  Company news

  Culture

  

• 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.

  September 25, 2025

  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.

  September 24, 2025

  CDN & Delivery

  + 4 more

  

• The Tools Gap: Why Developers Struggle to Code Green

  Alina Lehtinen-Vela

  77% of developers want to code sustainably, but most lack the tools to measure impact. Fastly’s survey reveals the barriers and opportunities in green coding.

  September 23, 2025

  Industry insights

  Engineering

  

• Publish your website without a host

  Sue Smith

  Deploy static sites to Fastly Compute directly from your browser or IDE. Publish blogs, apps, and websites at the edge without hosting.

  September 18, 2025

  CDN & Delivery

  + 3 more

  

• Teach Your robots.txt a New Trick (for AI)

  Brooks Cunningham

  Control how AI bots like Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended use your website content for training. Update your robots.txt file with simple Disallow rules.

  September 16, 2025

  CDN & Delivery

  + 3 more

  

• Fastly + Scalepost: Extending the Fastly platform to manage AI Crawlers

  John Agger

  See when and how AI chatbots use your content. With Fastly and ScalePost, publishers finally gain visibility into how their work shows up in AI-generated answers.

  September 12, 2025

  

• Control and Monetize Your Content with the RSL Standard

  Simon Wistow

  AI crawlers are scraping the web, often ignoring rules and costing publishers resources. The new RSL Standard lets you block, allow, or even charge AI for access to your content. Here’s how it works.

  September 10, 2025

  CDN & Delivery

  Product

  

• DDoS in August

  Liam Mayron, David King

  August 2025 DDoS attack trends: Hyperscale clouds are the source for 70% of attacks. Get insights on the latest application DDoS trends to strengthen security.

  September 10, 2025

  Security

  + 2 more

  

• Sustainability dashboard: Shine a light on your digital carbon footprint

  Eoghan Kelly

  Fastly's Sustainability dashboard provides instant access to electricity-related Scope 2 & 3 emissions data. Understand and optimize your digital carbon footprint with ease.

  September 09, 2025

  CDN & Delivery

  + 3 more

  

• CISO Perspective: Q2 2025 Threat Insights Report

  Marshall Erwin

  Explore Fastly's Q2 2025 Threat Report through our CISO, Marshall Erwin's eyes. Uncover bot traffic insights and key security practices.

  September 09, 2025

  Security

  Industry insights

  

• Bridging the real-time testing gap: Fanout support in local development for Fastly Compute

  Katsuyuki Omuro

  Fastly Compute now supports local Fanout testing, letting you build and validate real-time features without deploying to production.

  September 08, 2025

  Engineering

  + 2 more

  

• Powering PyPI with Advanced Traffic Engineering

  Joe Williams, Stephen Strowes

  PyPI serves millions daily. See how Fastly’s Individual Provider Anycast unlocks faster, smarter routing for Python’s package index.

  September 05, 2025

  CDN & Delivery

  + 4 more