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Streaming Continued to Grow in 2022, With Some Surprises

John Agger

Here are the main trends (and a few surprises) Fastly encountered in streaming in 2022, and what we expect in the future.

Streaming
Industry insights

What's Next in Cybersecurity for 2023 | Fastly

Andrew Peterson

Cybersecurity continued to be a hot topic this year. From cloud adoption to automation, here are four security industry trends to expect in 2023.

Security
Industry insights

Fastly Wins 2022 Devportal Award as Fastly Fiddle Turns 5

Andrew Betts

Fastly Fiddle, a key feature of the Fastly Developer Hub is a powerful and flexible testing sandbox that allows developers to test configurations without putting their production environments at risk.

DevOps
Company news

The Signals Series, Part 3: Signals at the Edge

Blake Dournaee

Learn how to use next-gen WAF signals to identify known actors and track responses. We’ll also look at how moving some of the security decisioning to Fastly’s edge can further protect downstream systems through the use of custom response codes.

Security
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Self-service Image Optimization announced | Fastly

Travis Sanders

We are happy to announce the availability of the long awaiting self-service of our Image Optimization product. Once enabled, users can manually enable/disable image optimization on each/all of their Fastly service configurations. We are pleased to bring this support to the world's fastest-edge network.

Performance
Compute

The Importance of Multi-CDN in Two Charts

John Agger

When content delivery networks (CDNs) garner coverage in the media, it's almost always because of an outage. Yet, outages are not a major reason to move to adopt multiple CDNs.

Streaming

Easy IAM authentication for GCP services now available. | Fastly

Dom Fee

Announcing general availability of IAM (Identity Access Management), secrets-free authentication for our Google BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Pub/Sub logging integrations.

Product
Security

Survey: 73% Rise in Cybersecurity Spend by 2023 | Fastly

Sean Leach

Fastly is excited to share the findings of a cybersecurity survey of IT and security leaders in a new report called, “Fighting fire with fire: Cybersecurity strategies are suffering as a result of complexity.”

Security
Industry insights

Easy Debugging with Compute@Edge Log Tailing UI | Fastly

Dom Soegono

The Fastly CLI is an excellent tool during development and debugging, when an engineer is typically working within the codebase and command line. But it may not always be the most readily available tool when you’re viewing observability metrics and dashboards in the browser. Our new C@E Log-Tailing UI solves this problem.

DevOps
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Introducing Cloud WAF Terraform Support

Liam Mayron

Terraform, from HashiCorp, enables DevOps teams to deploy cloud infrastructure as code. Fastly supports Terraform across our product lines and today we’re excited to share enhancements to our Next-Gen WAF Terraform provider for our Cloud WAF deployment model which will further streamline operations for our secure DevOps users.

Security
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TLS Key Size: Why Bigger isn't Always Better | Fastly

Wayne Thayer

TLS key size has a recommended length of 2048 bits, but that does not mean you can not go bigger or smaller. In this post, we explore the various TLS key sizes by examining the function of the TLS certificate and the cryptographic operations used by TLS.

Security
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Is it time for ECDSA certificates?

Shane Burgess

For 40 years, RSA certificates have been the industry standard for Transport Layer Security (TLS). But we’re seeing a shift – especially as the prevalence of high-traffic cyber attacks continues to grow.

Security
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Data visualization for accessibility

Henry Zhang

At Fastly, we always strive to do the right thing. That’s why we’re introducing a more accessible data visualization color palette as part of our Edge Observer product.

Culture
Product

Introducing WebSocket Support for all Fastly customers!

Ashley Vassell

Today, Fastly announces support for WebSockets on Delivery and Compute services in General Availability!

Product
Performance

Fast Forward: Let’s build the good internet together

Artur Bergman, Hannah Aubry

We believe in an internet that is free, open, and safe for all. And we believe the only way to get there is if we all build and nurture it. Together.

DevOps
+ 3 more

Building a Collaborative Internet

Anil Dash

The most powerful thing about the internet isn’t the technology it's built on; it’s the people building and using it.

DevOps
Culture

Syntax highlight Fastly VCL files in Visual Studio Code

Leon Brocard

With Fastly’s new Visual Studio Code extension, Fastly Varnish Configuration Language (VCL), you can now syntax highlight Fastly VCL code.

DevOps
Engineering

Announcing Rate Limiting Expansion for Next-Gen WAF

Daniel Corbett

Today we’re excited to announce an expansion of advanced rate limiting rules, increased blocking durations, and removal of limitations on non-IP client identifiers in the Fastly Next-Gen WAF.

Security
Product

Astro on the Edge in under 2 minutes with Fastly

Jonathan Speek

Did you know you can easily serve static sites from the edge with Fastly? Here’s how to get an Astro site published on Fastly’s Compute for free in less than 2 minutes.

DevOps
Compute

DIY Platforms Need Right Partners | Fastly

Andrew Peterson

Following years of growth, IP broadcasting—aka "streaming"—has become the largest content channel, surpassing both cable and broadcast accounting in July and reaching 35% of viewers in August, according to Nielsen.

Industry insights
Streaming