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Introducing GitHub Actions for Compute

Kailan Blanks

GitHub Actions for Compute allow you to transition from a manually deployed application to a fully automated deployment workflow with ease and wrap the Fastly CLI to provide an easy way to keep your application up to date.

Compute

New ways to compose content at the edge with Compute

Andrew Betts

It's always been possible to create content programmatically, and with the advent of our serverless compute environment, we've made it possible to create and transform content more efficiently and powerfully than ever before.

WebAssembly
Compute

More is less: stop adding to your security tool technical debt

Brendon Macaraeg

Throwing new security tools at new threats results in scattershot protection and builds technical debt. Organizations need uniform protection for applications and APIs, regardless of where they live.

Security

API and ATO Security Challenge Addressed | Fastly

Brendon Macaraeg

New Fastly next-gen WAF dashboards surface security telemetry from more than 20 new signals for advanced attack scenarios, such as account takeover, credit card validation, and password reset.

Security
Observability

Using Kinesis Data Streams

Haley Lenner

Fastly now offers logging support for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, as well as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) functionality for S3 and Kinesis logging endpoints.

Product
Observability

Compute: porting the iconic video game DOOM

Justin Liew

id Software’s DOOM has become one of the most-ported games in history. It felt like a perfect project to port to Compute, built on our serverless compute environment, to experiment with different applications of the product.

Product
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Fastly and Okta partner to lock down layer 7

Sean Leach

Layer 7 is a primary battleground for web application and API security. Fastly and Okta have partnered together to share threat intelligence, so security and development teams can better protect their systems.

Security
Company news

Compute@Edge: Serverless Insights by Company | Fastly

Kimmie Nguyen

Vox Media, Mux, and PerimeterX share how Compute is unlocking performance, agility, and creativity across their organizations.

Customers
Compute

Building Security Mindset in Engineering

Kevin Rollinson

Explore how leaders from both sides of the aisle have built thriving secure DevOps cultures by putting trust in people first.

Security
DevOps

You asked, we delivered: Terraform support for TLS is here

Joe Hoffend, Sudhir Patamsetti

Teams can now automate their Fastly TLS workflows through Terraform — including issuing certificates, retrieving TLS details, and performing other updates.

Security
Product

Simplifying authentication with OAuth at the edge

Dora Militaru, Andrew Betts

The basic concept of performing authentication and then using identity data to make authorization decisions is something that applies to a large majority of web and native apps. Doing this at the edge offers some very significant advantages to both developers and end users.

Compute

Fastly (Signal Sciences) repeated Customers’ Choice | Fastly

Andrew Peterson

Fastly (Signal Sciences) has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice for Web Application Firewalls in the 2021 Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer” report.

Company news
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Supporting women today and tomorrow | Fastly

Sam Perlman

The tech industry isn’t exactly known for gender inclusivity. We’re taking action to make progress, and committed to more equitable results for our employees and our community as a whole. See how we’re revisiting our recruiting practices to be more inclusive, and how we’re celebrating Women’s History Month together.

Culture

Fastly looks back: 10 years of fond memories

Hannah Aubry

March 3 marked Fastly’s 10 year incorporation anniversary. In honor of the occasion, we interviewed a few of Fastly’s longest-tenured employees to share their memories and visions for the future.

Culture
Company news

Reflecting on Fastly’s first-ever Global Week of Service

James White, Annette Cipollini

This year, we encouraged Fastlyans to take time out of the workweek to give back together, connect with colleagues, and contribute to organizations making a difference.

Culture

Impact of mobile internet disruption in Niger

David Belson

In this blog post, we look at the impact of the internet service disruption in Niger from the perspective of Fastly platform traffic at a country, city, and network level.

Observability

Next-Gen WAF for Microsoft Exchange | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

Fastly’s security research team has built and deployed a rule to protect Signal Sciences Next-Gen WAF customers against the recently announced Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities.

Product
Security

Engineering leaders: security is your job, too

Sean Leach

The rise of secure DevOps has left many security professionals vying for the attention and support of their engineering counterparts. What can engineering leaders do to bridge the gap? We have four ideas to help you build security into your DevOps culture, workflows, and goals.

Culture
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Terms of Service update: Fastly and Signal Sciences

Karen Greenstein

Fastly is updating its Terms of Service to make it easier to purchase Fastly and Signal Sciences under a single, unified contract.

Company news

COVID boosts traffic across industries | Fastly

David Belson

Increased internet usage due to COVID-19 drove a ‘COVID bump’ in traffic across certain industry verticals, including digital media publishing, education, and social media.

Industry insights
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