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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

Engineers' Role in Digital Transformation

Laura Thomson

The pressure on engineering teams right now is substantial as leaders are tasked with driving their companies’ success, even during the chaos of 2020. In the face of uncertainty, there are steps leaders can take today to spark innovation, support their people, and enable growth — ultimately positioning themselves, their teams, and their companies survive and thrive.

Engineering

DDoS attacks grow bigger, but so do responses

Michael Sabbota

DDoS attacks have been growing larger over the past few years. But so has the industry’s response to them. In this post, we take a look at what industry bodies and a modern CDN can do to protect your traffic.

Industry insights
Security

Cyber Five: what we saw during ecommerce's big week

David Belson

Ads leading up to the annual Black Friday - Cyber Monday holiday shopping weekend this year were remarkably devoid of the promises of “doorbuster” sales at the local malls and big-box stores. Instead, retailers moved their promotions to their ecommerce sites. With the weekend now in our rear-view mirror, we examine aggregate traffic volumes for 100 of Fastly’s top U.S. based ecommerce customers.

Industry insights

Serving Dynamic Content with a Modern CDN

Mark Teodoro

Using a powerful, modern CDN that provides instant cache invalidation and real-time analytics allows for edge-first application architectures that improve personalization, performance, and protection.

Performance
Compute

Dora Militaru debunks Developer Career Path Myth | Fastly

Hannah Aubry

In this developer spotlight, we talk to Dora Militaru about her story and thoughts on the tech industry, as well as glean sage advice and inspiration for developers, hiring managers, and those with an unconventional story to share.

Industry insights
WebAssembly

5 best practices for your TLS configuration

Maria Espada

The TLS Support Engineering team provides support for customers managing one to thousands of certificates. After helping so many customers tailor their DNS and TLS configurations, they have five best practices to recommend.

Security

New logging endpoints: Kafka and Kinesis

Dom Fee

Fastly adds two new logging endpoints with Kafka, now in general availability, and Kinesis, now in limited availability.

Product
Observability

Prepare for DDoS attacks: 5 steps to take | Fastly

Gino Lang

Layer 7 attacks that target applications and issue requests that can swamp origin systems often seek to blend into other network traffic and require a more focused defense than Layer 3 and 4 attacks. Here are five best practices you can implement to help prepare for such attacks.

Industry insights
Security

Fastly's Live Event Services power Lexus Melbourne Cup on 10 Play | Fastly

David Belson, Sianne Chen

Fastly Live Event Services helped power the Lexus Melbourne Cup, a 3-minute horse race that attracts millions of viewers across Australia. This year, the event saw more people live streaming than ever before and went off without a hitch.

Industry insights
Streaming

Election 2020: A data story in three parts

David Belson

The breadth of our network and volume of our traffic provides a portal of sorts into the global zeitgeist, helping us observe the moments the world goes online to share in a collective experience. But unlike the Super Bowl or Black Friday, we can hardly call the 2020 U.S. presidential election a “moment”. Indeed, our view of the 2020 Election starts months before Election Day and continues days after.

Observability

The three things to keep in mind as you prepare for peak

Julien Maingard, Lindsay Morris

Peak traffic is going to be on overdrive this year, and your ecommerce site needs to be prepared — but it’s not as hard as you might think. A good game plan should include these three best practices.

Industry insights

The power of serverless, 72 times over

Mark Teodoro

Serverless technology has been making developers’ lives easier for years, but those benefits had yet to extend to end users. This is the true promise of edge serverless — enabling developers to solve for both operational overhead and a performant, consistent user experience, simultaneously.

Performance
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Adobe boosts performance and MTTR with Epsagon and Fastly logs | Fastly

Simon Wistow

Working together, Epsagon and Adobe’s Project Helix team built a very cool integration that uses clever parsing of Fastly VCL to generate tracing statements showing what variables have been created, updated, or deleted at every stage of a request and response in our platform.

Product
Observability

Use One Set of Credentials for Multiple Fastly Accounts

Joe Hoffend

Gone are the days of maintaining separate credentials for multiple accounts. Multi Account User Access allows you to log in to multiple Fastly customer accounts with a single set of credentials.

Product

Exploring 103 Early Hints Beyond Server Push | Fastly

Mark Nottingham

Many people think that the 103 Early Hints HTTP status code can help web performance in certain situations, but we won’t know until we get data about it, and without that data, browsers won’t support it. If your site has content like that described in this post, please consider joining this experiment.

Engineering