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Generous, innovative, resilient: this is the web at its best

Joshua Bixby

We’ve long recognized that the organizations in our community build more than applications and codebases. In this unprecedented global moment, our customers, partners, and friends are showing up for their communities in generous and innovative ways. Here are a few we’re applauding.

Customers
Culture

HTTP/3 and QUIC help needy connections | Fastly

Patrick McManus

HTTP/3 and QUIC aim to help the internet's so-called long-tail connections — connections that are most in need of improvement. What could that look like? For some, it could mean being able to actually use video calling and streaming media or even make a workable phone call. Let's look at the design principles that make these advancements possible.

Industry insights
Performance

COVID-19 response: people first | Fastly

Joshua Bixby

It’s been more than a month since going fully remote, and I’m reflecting on our internal response, how it’s shifted weekly based on learnings, and what it all says about our values and community.

Culture

How COVID-19 is affecting internet performance

Artur Bergman, Jana Iyengar

How is COVID-19 affecting internet performance? We analyzed regional and vertical trends and found that, despite COVID-19-related traffic increases, the internet is up to the challenge.

Performance
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$50M Support for Nonprofits & Open Source

Joshua Bixby

In light of COVID-19, we’re expanding our Open Source and Nonprofit Program, and more actively investing in organizations supporting good in the world.

Culture
Company news

Four key innovations that prepared the internet for COVID-19

Patrick McManus

These crucial pieces of internet architecture — only widely adopted over the last 10 years — are creating the capacity for us to live, work, and learn from home in unprecedented conditions.

Industry insights
Performance

Fastly expands logging endpoints

Dom Fee

Fastly now supports new logging endpoints Elasticsearch, New Relic Logs, Google Pub/Sub, and an HTTPS endpoint to empower developers to work the way they want.

Observability

Capacity planning and network expansion in a remote-first world

Catharine Strauss

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how Fastly's approach to managing our network capacity, supply chain, and human capital allows us to observe, respond, and adapt to rapidly changing conditions on our globally distributed network.

Performance
Platform

WAF & logging integrations added | Fastly

Mandy Sparber, Patrick Francois

Using integrations with BigQuery and Looker, we’ve created 15 chart templates that help you effectively monitor security events on your sites and applications, in real time.

Security
Observability

Purging Fastly using GCP cloud functions

Andrew Betts

When using Fastly in front of Google Cloud Storage, cloud functions can enable purging of Fastly’s edge cloud platform instantly and selectively to ensure content updates are seen by users immediately. Here, we’ll show you how.

DevOps
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A COVID-19 Business Continuity Update from Fastly

Joshua Bixby

As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic continues to unfold, our priority is the health and safety of our employees, customers, and partners. Importantly, we are ensuring that we provide seamless business continuity to our customers who rely on Fastly to enable a vast number of people across the internet to create content, watch videos, read articles, and search for news and information. Here are the key steps we are taking to ensure our business continuity to help support our customers’ businesses. We will provide updates as necessary via our blog, and you can always find current information at https://status.fastly.com/.

Company news

How Network Automation Helps Fastly Live Streaming

Ryan Landry

How network automation, a small team of engineers, and key learnings from past extreme high-traffic moments allow us to support delivery performance at scale.

Performance
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How Lucet and Wasmtime make a stronger compiler, together

Pat Hickey

In our latest Bytecode Alliance initiative, we’re working to marry the benefits of Lucet and Wasmtime — ultimately creating a more seamless, secure, and speedy WebAssembly runtime and compiler.

WebAssembly
Compute

Fastly rolls out Auto Optimize for Image Optimizer

Dom Fee

Fastly’s new Auto Optimize feature lets developers specify an optimized quality rating of high, medium, or low to help images load more quickly.

Product

Exercising Caution As COVID-19 Situation Evolves

Joshua Bixby

Fastly’s mission is to build a trustworthy internet where good can thrive. Given that the situation related to COVID-19 is rapidly evolving, we believe an abundance of caution is prudent, and are implementing several precautionary measures to help minimize the risk of COVID-19 to our employees, our customers, and the communities in which we participate.

Platform

Better VCL for more maintainable Fastly configurations

Andrew Betts

Over the last eight years of providing a platform for coding at the edge, we've learned a lot about common patterns, as well as common mistakes and risky code. Best practices in Fastly VCL have changed over time to help address expectation gaps and help improve maintainability.

Engineering

Reflecting on the last nine years, and Fastly’s new CEO

Artur Bergman

I am stepping into the role of Chief Architect and Executive Chairperson, and Joshua Bixby will become our new CEO. Growth and change have always come hand-in-hand at Fastly. Earlier today, Joshua and I sent the following emails to our employees at Fastly announcing this leadership transition.

Three ways TLS 1.3 protects origin names

Patrick McManus

The newest version of Transport Layer Security, TLS 1.3, is faster, more robust, and more responsive than ever before. Explore three ways it will help HTTPS protect origin names for improved confidentiality.

Security
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Super Bowl Memes & Internet Trends

Gino Lang, Jess Cook

A look at internet traffic trends and user behaviors during the 2020 Super Bowl.

Customers
Observability

Modernizing the internet with HTTP/3 and QUIC

Jana Iyengar

Fastly’s QUIC and HTTP/3 beta is coming soon. Join the waitlist and discover how these two new protocols solve the modern internet’s problems.

Industry insights
Events