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  • Signal Sciences named Visionary in 2020 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls for second year | Fastly

    Kevin Rollinson

    We believe Signal Sciences’ innovation earned them recognition in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAF, and it’s this kind of innovation that excites us as we merge forces — now that Signal Sciences is part of Fastly.

    Product
    Security

  • Fastly Introduces Two Solutions for Quality | Fastly

    Dima Kumets

    With two new solutions, Fastly is empowering video engineers to address the growing streaming-at-scale challenge head on with enhancements to its video-on-demand and live event services capabilities, helping them deliver quality user experiences no matter what their end users are streaming.

    Product
    Streaming

  • Fastly invests in teams & communities for voter engagement | Fastly

    Maurice Wilkins

    Now more than ever, engaging in our democracy is critical — and Fastly is invested in making sure our internal community has the tools and resources to do so effectively.

    Culture

  • Engage young voters, drive civic engagement | Fastly

    Hannah Aubry

    DoSomething.org, part of our Open Source and Nonprofit Program, believes in activating young people to support change. And in the face of COVID-19 and a U.S. election year, they’ve imagined all-new ways to connect with users and driver voter engagement.

    Customers

  • Lessons Learned from Side-Channel Attacks

    Patrick McManus

    The largest category of difficult-to-anticipate security design weaknesses come from side-channel attacks. In this post, we take a tour of some of the more foundational and out-there side channel-related exploits that have afflicted the security conscious over the years.

    Industry insights
    Security

  • Better diff view from feedback & research | Fastly

    Joe Hoffend, Sayali Deshmukh

    We’ve made improvements to our diff view by combining customer testing, feedback, and requests with our own inspiration with diff experiences we enjoy using. The result is an enhanced diff view experience that we think you’ll enjoy as much as we do.

    Product

  • Terraform now supports all Fastly logging endpoints

    Dom Fee, Joe Hoffend

    We’ve been hard at work at Fastly this year working on updates to our Terraform provider and have some exciting ones to announce: Terraform now supports all our logging endpoints, plus Fastly web application firewall customers can now manage their WAF within Terraform.

    Product

  • Fastly and Signal Sciences join forces

    Joshua Bixby, Andrew Peterson

    Today, Fastly completed the acquisition of Signal Sciences and took a giant step forward toward our vision of modern, unified web application and API security. We will call on our shared view of empowering developers as we chart a path toward building an incredibly secure, performant platform and unlock all-new possibilities, together.

    Company news
    Security

  • BuzzFeed Optimize Gif-heavy Content with new Fastly Feature

    Dom Fee

    Fastly’s new Image Optimizer feature converts animated gifs to MP4 videos for a faster load time, smoother experience, and significant savings on end-users’ bandwidth. In fact, the new feature was able to condense BuzzFeed’s 250 MB, browser-freezing “100 Greatest Gifs of all Time” article to a much more manageable 6 MB.

    Company news
    Product

  • Web Application Firewall (WAF) Best Practices

    Liam Mayron

    Following WAF best practices is imperative to keep your business and customers secure. Learn about new regulations and security tips.

    Security

  • The state of QUIC and HTTP/3 2020

    Jana Iyengar

    QUIC and HTTP/3 have entered the final stages of development at the IETF. Distinguished Engineer, Jana Iyengar, elaborates on the current state of the protocols, their deployment across the internet, and his expectations for QUIC and HTTP/3 in the near future.

    Industry insights
    Engineering

  • Deploying network error logging with Compute

    Patrick Hamann

    We’ve been experimenting with Network Error Logging with Fastly Insights and discovered that processing the NEL reports is a great use case for Compute. In this post, we’ll look at our first attempt to build a NEL reporting pipeline, discuss where there was potential for optimization, and how Compute solves these problems while introducing performance and security improvements along the way.

    Product
    + 3 more

  • Fastly to Acquire Signal Science for Security at Scale | Fastly

    Joshua Bixby

    Security has always been a part of Fastly’s DNA, not just within products, but in our vision of trust and safety as a modern platform. Today, we are pleased to announce that we have announced our intent to acquire Signal Sciences.

    Company news
    Security

  • Hard-earned insights from a pair of secure DevOps pros

    Liam Mayron

    Fastly CISO Mike Johnson and Brave Software Senior DevOps Engineer Ben Kero share their practical advice for cementing more holistic security practices within your CI/CD pipeline.

    DevOps
    + 2 more

  • Why “by developers, for developers” matters

    Joshua Bixby

    Developer-centricity is now a mission-critical philosophy for companies to embrace. And during COVID-19, we all know that the stakes have never been higher. We’ve seen that businesses that operate with a dev-first mindset at their core will have the strategic advantage and will only increase it, today and into the future.

    Culture
    WebAssembly

  • Cloud Security for Developers

    Stephen Kiel

    If you’re evaluating web application security tools exclusively for their security requirements, you may be missing one of the most essential opportunities to successfully grow your secure DevOps culture: developer-centricity.

    Security
    DevOps

  • Fastly’s security DNA: a look at our culture of safety, privacy, and trust

    Dana Wolf

    Fastly's heritage of security runs deep — far beyond our portfolio of web application and API security products. Our philosophy of developer empowerment, focus on community, and values-driven culture each contribute to our security DNA in an important way. And we'd like to tell you how.

    Security
    + 2 more

  • Apps That Shouldn’t Be Built at the Edge | Fastly

    Sean Leach

    Progressive developers are increasingly using the edge of the network to power more performant and customized apps. With the use cases mounting, it seems there's very little that can't be built at the edge. And aside from a few exceptions, that just might be true.

    Compute
    Engineering

  • First things first: six resources for building on Fastly

    Jacob Rosenbacher

    If you’re among our newest community members, we’d love to show you more of what Fastly has to offer. Once you’ve covered the basics of our getting started guide, check out the resources in this article to take our programmable edge cloud platform further.

    Product

  • State at the edge

    Peter Bourgon

    With the introduction of Compute, Fastly provides a richer model for the CPU. WebAssembly, powered and secured by the Lucet compiler and runtime, unlocks essentially arbitrary code execution within each request lifecycle. This raises the immediate question: what would a richer model for memory, or state, look like?

    Engineering
    + 2 more
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