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Cloud Deploy simplifies Compute@Edge projects | Fastly

Kailan Blanks

We’re introducing Cloud Deploy, a wizard that helps you start building on Compute by deploying and customizing templates, and sets you up with an automated deployment workflow and best development practices.

DevOps
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Fastly's 2021 in Review

David Belson

In this post, we’ll take a look back at the past year through the eyes of our edge cloud network to explore what we saw across new protocol adoption, security initiatives, network growth, and more.

Industry insights
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What benefits does "the edge" offer digital publishing? | Fastly

Bridget Lane

By bringing your content closer to the reader, you bypass the conventional cost and rules associated with server space and infrastructure maintenance, and you gain some additional benefits. Let’s explore them.

Performance
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Origin Inspector: Monitor origin traffic from the Fastly UI

Dom Fee

Origin Inspector provides you with a dataset and visualizations that offer real-time and historical visibility into responses delivered from your origin servers to our edge cloud. And we’re happy to say that it’s now in limited availability.

Product
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WAF framework measures WAF effectiveness | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 1 more

Our new WAF efficacy framework provides a standardized way to measure the effectiveness of a WAF’s detection capabilities through continuous verification and validation. Here’s how it works.

Engineering
Security

Log4Shell attacks (CVE-2021-44228) insights | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

We’re sharing our latest data and new insights into the Log4j/Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228 + CVE-2021-45046) in this post in order to help the engineering community cope with the situation. We also share our guidance around testing your environment against many of the new obfuscation methods that have been seen.

Industry insights
Security

Log4Shell exploit found in Log4j | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

CVE-2021-44228 is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the Apache Log4j library being actively exploited. We provide our observations into the exploit and a summary of its impact.

Security
Engineering

30 Years of Web: Building for Tomorrow

Lee Chen

The web’s infrastructure — and the applications we build on it — must constantly evolve to meet the ever-transforming expectations of modern and future end users. We’ve gathered five lessons today’s builders can use to drive the next three decades of the web.

Industry insights
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Grinch bots penalized w/ enriched security data & our edge cloud platform | Fastly

Brooks Cunningham

In this post, we’ll show how you can use information from an origin response to add an abuse IP address to our penalty box. We've been touting the promise of security at the edge, and this is just one example of what it can do.

Security
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Lies, stats, debunking Cloudflare | Fastly

Andrew Betts, Laura Thomson, + 1 more

A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.

Industry insights
Compute

Cyber Five 2021: new normal or back to before times?

David Belson

We analyzed traffic from Thanksgiving Thursday to Cyber Monday in order to understand the traffic, buying, and security trends of ecommerce's big week.

Industry insights

30 Years of Web: Securing Tomorrow

Mike Johnson

To create more secure and resilient web experiences, we must design, build, and execute applications with security top of mind, and consider how the lessons of the past 30 years inform how we think about the future of security.

Industry insights
Security

Modern CDN for Digital Publishing

John Agger

The key to customer retention is serving the most up-to-date content instantly, personalizing that content for readers, and ensuring online experiences are responsive, safe, and secure. Here are three ways a modern content delivery network, or CDN, can help you do just that.

Performance
Streaming

30 Years of Web: Future-Ready Apps

Jana Iyengar

Many websites today are really applications, and we should be building them as such. To do that, we need application architectures and networks that are capable of supporting fast, secure, and scalable user experiences. We must embrace a more dynamic mindset in how we approach web development and consider the tools we need to get there.

Industry insights
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30 Years of Web: Future Demands

Davin Camara

As we look back to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the website, it’s also worth thinking about the next 30 years. There are a couple of areas where we — as engineers, developers, and builders in general — can champion innovation, mainly around architecture and security.

Industry insights
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Company culture in a hybrid work environment

Simon Wistow

In this video from Web Summit 2021, we discuss how you build and ensure your company culture when you have some team members in person and some at home.

Culture

Subresource monitoring with Compute

Fastly Security Research Team

Compute, our serverless compute environment, can be used to solve headaches dealing with attackers looking to modify and manipulate resources. In this post, we tell you how.

Security
Compute

You can now test Compute code in Fastly Fiddle

Andrew Betts

Fastly customers have been using our Fiddle tool for years to try out ideas for edge logic in VCL. With the advent of Compute last year, we made our edge compute network accessible to any language that compiles to WebAssembly, and now you can write Compute code in Fiddle too.

Engineering
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Get started with Fastly logging and Compute@Edge | Fastly

Alex Kesler

In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the basic steps of outputting messages to STDIO and tailing that output with the Fastly CLI as well as configuring a log streaming endpoint, emitting logs in your application, and confirming the delivery of those logs to your target logging destination.

Engineering
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Compute is now available to all with a free trial

Lizzy Brophy

Compute is now available for everyone to use, and we’re throwing in free credits so you can explore the platform with no strings attached. Read on for a crash course in how to stand up an experiment and experience the flexibility, security, and power of Compute for yourself.

Compute