From AI Crawlers to Headless Bots: How Automated Traffic is Changing the Web
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Security
Bots now drive nearly a third of web traffic. Learn how AI crawlers and headless bots are reshaping security, performance, and business decisions.
Staying Secure in 2025
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From AI Crawlers to Headless Bots: How Automated Traffic is Changing the Web
David King, Natalie Griffeth
Bots now drive nearly a third of web traffic. Learn how AI crawlers and headless bots are reshaping security, performance, and business decisions.
SecurityIndustry insights
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IDC Study Reveals 3X Gains from Modern AppSec Programs
Natalie Griffeth
An IDC study reveals that modern AppSec programs achieve 3X better business outcomes and are almost 2X less likely to experience a data breach.
Security+ 2 more
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Inside Fastly’s 2025 Internship Program: Projects, Impact & Culture
Christina Garvey
Discover the projects, impact, and culture of Fastly's 2025 Internship Program, recently ranked #1 by Vault. Meet the next generation of engineers.
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Smarter Data Migration: Move Less, Save More with Fastly
Adam Carter
Move only the active data you need with Fastly's On-Demand Migration for Object Storage. Cut expensive egress fees & simplify management with the new UI.
CDN & Delivery+ 5 more
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An Indispensable Pillar of Resilience - The Human
Brian Haberman
The human operator is the ultimate pillar of resilience. Learn how Fastly empowers engineers to handle novel failures, drive systemic learning, and achieve antifragility.
CDN & Delivery+ 2 more
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4 Recommendations to Maximize Savings and Performance with Fastly’s CDN
Guillermo Guardián
Boost website speed and save on egress costs with Fastly's CDN. Learn to maximize cache efficiency, reduce origin traffic, and unlock 189% ROI.
CDN & Delivery+ 2 more
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Essential Checklist: Get Ready for Peak Traffic Season with Fastly
Guillermo Guardián
Stop holiday traffic outages! Learn best practices to optimize your website for peak performance, security, and sales this Black Friday season.
CDN & Delivery+ 2 more
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The Sleep Test: How Embracing Chaos Unlocks API Resilience
Lorraine Bellon, Anna Jensen
Learn how Fastly's API Discovery and new Inventory feature unlock API resilience for platform engineers by embracing chaos and strategic, thoughtful planning.
SecurityProduct
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React2Shell Continued: What to know and do about the 2 latest CVEs
Fastly Security Research Team
In the wake of the critical severity React2Shell CVEs, two new CVEs exploiting similar Next.js and React components were announced on December 11. Learn more about these new CVEs.
SecurityIndustry insights
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DDoS in November
David King, Liam Mayron
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.
SecurityIndustry insights
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Upgrading Visibility for Compute with Domain Inspector
Namit Shivaram, Delen Trance
Fastly's Domain Inspector now supports Compute. Get robust domain-level observability, real-time traffic visibility, and faster troubleshooting at the edge.
Compute+ 3 more
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Black Friday is Dead, Long Live Black Friday: Cyber 5 Traffic Insights
Robyn Bean, Alec Olslund
Black Friday isn’t the traffic spike it used to be. Fastly’s data shows holiday demand now stretches across all of November. Here’s what Cyber 5 2025 really looked like.
Security+ 3 more
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How React2Shell is evolving: Industries and regions targeted
Kelly Shortridge
Fastly is seeing sustained React2Shell attacks across all industries and regions. Learn what’s happening and the critical steps enterprises should take to patch vulnerable apps.
SecurityIndustry insights
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Fastly’s Proactive Protection for React2Shell, Critical React RCE CVE-2025-55182 and CVE-2025-66478
Kelly Shortridge
Protect your apps from the critical React RCE bugs (CVE-2025-55182/66478). Fastly's NGWAF Virtual Patch provides proactive defense.
Security
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Unparalleled Performance: Bring Your C++ Logic to the Edge
Kat Marchán, Sy Brand
Bring your C++ logic to the edge with the Beta Fastly Compute SDK. Achieve unparalleled, near-native performance, low-latency, and enhanced security via WebAssembly (Wasm).
Engineering+ 4 more
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Deploy for Performance: Fastly’s Principles of Infrastructure Diversity and Soft Control
Brian Haberman
Discover Fastly's core resilience principles: Infrastructure Diversity prevents outages, and Soft Influence optimizes traffic for peak performance.
Performance+ 2 more
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CAPTCHAs Are Costing Retailers Customers — Heavy AI Users Are the First to Walk Away
Alina Lehtinen-Vela
Our original survey of 881 online shoppers shows CAPTCHAs are quietly killing conversions — especially among heavy AI users, who are the quickest to walk away.
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How Fastly and Yottaa Transform Site Performance with Early Hints
Ajay Bharadwaj, Terri Allegretto
Early Hints for Compute is now generally available, dramatically improving website performance and user experience by preloading essential resources.
Compute+ 4 more
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Why the Future of Streaming Lives at the Edge
John Agger, Ashley Hurwitz
The future of streaming lives at the edge. Explore how Fastly reduces latency, boosts performance, and unlocks sustainable content delivery for media companies.
Edge network+ 3 more
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Mitigating DDoS attacks faster and with even more accuracy
Liam Mayron, David King
Learn how Fastly's Adaptive Threat Engine update for DDoS Protection boosts mitigation accuracy and reduces Mean Time to Mitigation by 72% for the holidays.
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