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CEO Srivishnu Piratla on "Tech for Good"

Hannah Aubry

Hear from the CEO of Tech for Good, Srivishnu Piratla, as he outlines how teaching computer science skills can support underserved communities and businesses, drive international efforts for connectivity, and inspire the broader tech community to get involved.

Industry insights

3 Benefits CDN's Bring to Startups

Simon Wistow

A modern CDN can help improve SEO rankings, make it easier to deliver personalized content, and secure your sites and apps — three keys to a startup’s success.

Performance
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Traffic patterns and user behaviors from Super Bowl LV

David Belson

This year, Fastly joined multi-vendor tech stacks to help stream the Super Bowl for multiple digital media customers, providing us with a unique perspective of online behavior during the game. Across our network, we also observed traffic trends for social media, meme creation and sharing, and online retail.

CISOs in 2021: What's driving change? | Fastly

Kevin Rollinson, Zane Lackey

After a year of abrupt changes and urgent pivots, CISOs head into 2021 with a new set of challenges: implementing change at scale, accelerating transformation timelines, and reimagining secure app development in the age of APIs.

The new rules for web app and API security

Sean Leach

Nearly everything we know about building web applications and APIs has changed in the last few decades. So why hasn't security? We argue it's time for a new approach to web app and API security, one that follows suit with how applications are really built and teams really work.

DevOps
Security

Compute Log Tailing for better observability and debugging | Fastly

Edward Muller

Compute Log Tailing allows developers on the Fastly Computer@Edge platform to quickly iterate on and debug their services by getting near-real-time feedback via stdout/stderr output.

Company news
Compute

Demos and starter kits: new ways for you to learn and build

Andrew Betts, Hannah Aubry

We’ve overhauled our developer solutions content, adding two new content formats and reorganizing our popular recipes and solution patterns. Meet our new code examples, tutorials, demos, and starter kits!

Company news
Engineering

More than Bernie memes: what we saw during Inauguration Day

David Belson

The inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris was unique for many reasons, not the least of which was the lack of crowds due to the COVID-19 pandemic and increased security measures. Fastly analyzed aggregate Requests per Second (RPS) traffic on Fastly’s platform for customer cohorts across social media, digital media, meme, and other verticals.

Startups & Modern CDN Benefits

Simon Wistow

See the 4 ways startups use CDNs to hit their goals and our list of recommended CDN providers.

Industry insights
Performance

Debugging QUIC with H2O and QLog

Toru Maesaka

QUIC is a secure low-latency transport layer protocol that is commonly known as the transport protocol of HTTP/3. Here, we’ll discuss how we added support for QLog, an incremental QUIC endpoint logging format, to H2O, an open- source HTTP server that we deploy throughout our edge cloud platform.

Engineering
Industry insights

Live-Streaming Event Checklist

Dima Kumets

With high quality-of-experience expectations around live-streaming events, no content owner can afford not to have the right plan in place. Here are the crucial steps to take when planning your live-streaming event.

Streaming

Improving network availability with Precision Path

Rob Bushell

Fastly introduces Precision Path to address short-lived network congestion issues, for improved protection from transient provider issues for origin server requests, and a more robust delivery of content to your end users. 

Performance
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Exceptional Stories of Digital Innovation From 2020

Joshua Bixby

Developers and builders around the world stepped up to meet the moment in a variety of ways in 2020. We’re humbled to be both a witness and enabler for how they supported their organizations, many even thriving under incredibly difficult circumstances. Today we’ll share some of their stories with you.

Customers

When do you need low-latency HTTP live streaming?

John Agger

Low-latency live streaming is more relevant than ever. New user experiences, like quizzes and real-time voting, built around content and entertainment must be available with little to no delay. In this post, we look at the business cases that warrant low-latency HTTP live streaming.

Industry insights
Streaming

Designing Edge-Native Applications | Fastly

Andrew Betts

Become "edge-native" in your next project and seamlessly run multiple instances concurrently and be prepared for the server-less world.

Compute

Porting JavaScript (or TypeScript) to AssemblyScript

Aaron Turner

In this post, we’ll show you how AssemblyScript and JavaScript are closely related with a deep dive into the process of porting common JavaScript applications to AssemblyScript and the considerations that come along with it.

WebAssembly
Compute

API Focus for Commerce Companies

Adrien Pujol

As commerce companies embark on their digital transformation journeys, headless architecture is a hot topic. Here are five ways a modern CDN can deliver on the promise of headless commerce.

Industry insights
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A unified platform is the future of secure DevOps

Cassandra Dixon

Fastly and Signal Sciences have joined forces to build the next generation of web app and API security at the edge. Explore what makes our approach different, and how it will empower developers to build more securely than ever before.

Security
Events

Fastly's Product Vision for 2021

Dana Wolf

We want to help you build the best user experiences confidently, securely, and quickly in the face of any challenge — and our 2021 product vision is designed with this in mind. Let’s dig in on our areas of focus.

Company news
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Conversations with Devs Building the Modern Internet

Hannah Aubry

Andrew Betts, Fastly’s Principal Developer Advocate, gets technical with Spread Group Senior Software Architect, Martin Breest, digging into his team’s creative use of chatbots and A/B testing, and solving challenges around 3D image-mapping at the edge.

Customers