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  • Private Access Tokens and the Future of Anti-Fraud

    Robert Gibson

    Learn how the new authorization protocol, Private Access Tokens, is changing how DevOps teams and security professionals fight against fraudulent activity:

    Privacy
    Security
  • How Joining Fastly Improved Glitch’s Privacy Game

    Jesse von Doom

    Easy friendship may be rare—especially when it comes to #privacy—but with Fastly + Glitch, we were there from day one. We have the same goal: a consistent, powerful and insightful #data policy that begins and ends with the user.

    Privacy
  • Kicking Off Privacy Week @ Fastly

    Jana Iyengar

    The internet is an unprecedented venue for connecting with others, transacting business, learning and expressing ourselves. However, some of the fundamental mechanics of the web lend themselves to surveillance technologies that track our behavior, interests and even personal relationships without our consent.

    Privacy
    Events
  • Run your Next.js app on Fastly

    Katsuyuki Omuro

    With our new next-compute-js library, you can now host your Next.js application on our Compute@Edge platform – giving you the benefits of both the Next.js developer experience and our blazing-fast, world-wide edge network, and you don't even need an origin server.

    Engineering
    Compute
  • Node.js-style HTTP interfaces for Compute

    Katsuyuki Omuro

    Our Compute JavaScript platform provides Request and Response objects, but these are based on the Fetch standard, rather than the req and res objects traditionally seen in Node.js programs. If you have a program designed for Node.js that you are thinking about moving over to Compute, or if a library you want to use is designed for Node, our new open-source library, http-compute-js, has got your back.

    Product
    Compute
  • No-origin, static websites at the edge!

    Katsuyuki Omuro

    Many of the world's websites are static, and Fastly’s content delivery network gets those pages from origin to visitors quickly. But what if we took the origin out of the equation?

    Engineering
    Compute
  • AWS Lambda and Cloud WAF upgrades for wider deployment | Fastly

    Julie Rockett

    WAF deployment flexibility is critical to keep up with the pace of business. That’s why we innovate on the widest range of WAF deployment methods in the market.

    Security
  • Video Cache Prefetch with Compute

    Jim Rainville, Vadim Getmanshchuk

    By using Compute to pre-warm the cache, you are not only using a powerful, globally distributed network to do the work, but you also solve the pitfalls associated with legacy prefetch.

  • Delivering What Modern Broadcasters Need at IBC | Fastly

    Noel Penzer

    With streaming now the most common way for viewers to watch content, the modern broadcaster needs to focus on scalability, resiliency, and security.

    Events
    + 2 more
  • Interview with HUMAN CEO Tamer Hassan

    Lakshmi Sharma

    Fastly announced a reseller partnership with HUMAN Security, Inc. to better safeguard enterprises and internet platforms from sophisticated bot attacks and fraud. We sat down with HUMAN CEO and Co-founder Tamer Hassan to learn more about bots, and what HUMAN is doing to protect its customers from the threat.

    Platform
    + 2 more
  • Automating and Defending Nefarious Automation

    Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa

    If your application is on the internet, chances are it has been subjected to nefarious automation. These events can include many different attacks – including content scraping, credential stuffing, application DDoS, web form abuse, token guessing, and more.

    Security
  • Taming shoe bots: it’s no small feat

    Katsuyuki Omuro

    Automated scripts, or bots, make up a large portion of product purchases on the web today. To some businesses, these bots cause harm, but for others, bots help drive revenue. If you are an online business owner, your stance on how to address them will vary. Whatever your needs, Fastly’s edge cloud scales up to meet the challenge, and helps you to create the right set of policies for your business.

    Industry insights
  • OpenTelemetry part 4: Instrumenting Fastly Fiddle

    Andrew Betts

    We are very excited about OpenTelemetry. We wrote about why, and also about how to emit telemetry from Fastly's VCL services, and our new Compute platform. But OpenTelemetry's value truly shines when you add it to everything in your stack. What does that look like and is it worth it? We instrumented Fastly Fiddle, from top to bottom, to find out.

    Engineering
    Compute
  • Pro Tips: Next-Gen WAF Mastery

    The Fastly Security Technical Account Management Team

    Learn how you can use your next-gen WAF effectively, along with best practices.

    Security
  • Future security trends for 2022/2023 | Fastly

    Mike Johnson

    The world changed when the pandemic hit in 2020, leaving organizations unsure of how it would affect the future. Security leaders may have found themselves wondering if their long-standing business approaches, processes, and tools could withstand the changes brought on by the pandemic.

    Security
  • Evolved terms for data processing | Fastly

    Matthew Peterson

    At Fastly, we work hard to stay ahead of legal changes that affect our customers. It’s always our goal to help customers stay confident and compliant, as seamlessly as possible.

    Company news
    Industry insights
  • Compute: Go support has arrived!

    Mark McDonnell

    Fastly’s Compute platform enables customers to build high scale, globally distributed applications and execute code at the edge using popular languages such as Rust and JavaScript. Now you can use Go too!

    WebAssembly
  • A closer look at low latency delivery

    John Agger

    Latency — the lag between when the packet leaves the streaming source and when it arrives at the consumer’s device — takes many forms, with the most common being lag, dropped frames, buffering, and with that reduced video quality.

    Streaming
  • OpenTelemetry Part 3: Using OpenTelemetry in Compute

    Katsuyuki Omuro

    Our first OpenTelemetry library for Compute is now available, enabling your Compute application to generate spec-compliant traces, providing deeper insights about its performance and resources. In this post I'll show you how easy it is to add this support to an edge application.

    DevOps
    + 3 more
  • What is TLS Fingerprinting?| Fastly

    Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens

    TLS fingerprinting has become a prevalent tool to help security defenders identify what clients are talking to their server infrastructure.

    Security