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Hybrid vs. Public vs. Multi-cloud

Adam Denenberg

Compare the pros and cons of each stage of cloud evolution — hybrid vs. public vs. multi-cloud — to decide which stage is right for your business.

Performance
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Is multi-CDN delivery the solution to your QoE goals?

Lee Chen

Multi-CDN delivery helps deliver a higher quality of experience and is growing in popularity. Let’s explore why and what key factors you should keep in mind in evaluating if it’s the right strategy for your quality of experience goals.

Streaming
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17 new solutions to Build on Fastly

Andrew Betts

Since the August launch of Build on Fastly, our developer library, we have been quietly adding many new solutions: beacon termination, geofencing, numerous flavours of load balancing, and lots of other goodies. Here's a list so you don't miss out on all the new ideas for getting the most out of Fastly.

CCPA and Fastly: we've got you covered

Neal Hannan

Before CCPA rolls out in January, we’d like to share what we believe the changes mean for you as a Fastly customer.

Preventing Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

The Fastly Collective

Learn about the technical details of SSRF, how it was utilized in the Capital One breach, why it’s so critical to understand for today’s cloud-hosted web apps, and how organizations can protect their web applications and APIs from such attacks.

Security

Testing your Fastly config in CI

Andrew Betts

Many customers now upload their CDN configuration as part of their continuous deployment process. That means you need to be able to automate testing too. Here’s how.

Engineering

Compute Demo: New Serverless Compute Environment | Fastly

Sean Leach

Watch our Compute demo, and see the possibilities of our new serverless compute environment.

Product
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Best Practices for Multi-CDN Implementations | Fastly

Dima Kumets

Learn how multi-cdn works and discover the benefits of a multi-cdn approach. See how you can implement a multi-CDN architecture using these 8 steps.

Edge network
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Internet changed in 2019, expect more in 2020 | Fastly

Tyler McMullen

Take a look back at 2019’s major shifts in internet infrastructure, and understand what they mean for the future of the internet in 2020 and beyond.

Industry insights
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How Rack and Roll lets us grow our network with purpose

Kat Diamantine, Davin Camara

Rack and Roll is our new, scalable process for building and delivering POPs worldwide. From concept to go-live, discover how we build and ship our servers to expand our global network.

Edge network
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Fastly's changelog tracks API enhancements | Fastly

Keavy McMinn

Fastly launches a more robust and transparent API changelog that will make it easier for developers to get the facts they need to keep building the experiences users love.

Product

Fast Path Failover Tech Boosts Delivery | Fastly

Lorenzo Saino, Raul Landa

Improve traffic deliverability by mitigating the impact of internet weather by automatically detecting and re-routing underperforming edge connections.

Performance
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Seven tips to improve live streaming

John Agger

At Fastly, we’ve helped some of the world’s leading broadcasters and content owners deliver live events that scale from local news to the very largest sporting events. And we’ve learned a thing or two along the way. Check out our seven tips for live streaming success.

Streaming

TLS with Fastly is now easier and more flexible

Blake Dournaee

Fastly now offers two new TLS services for the trust, flexibility, and scalability customers need to bring the best of the internet to life.

Security
Product

Protecting WebSocket Protocol Apps and APIs with Fastly

The Fastly Collective

The 4.2 release of the Fastly agent introduces WebSocket traffic inspection, enabling customers to extend the coverage of applications, APIs, and microservices protected by Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF to apps and services that utilize the WebSockets protocol.

Security

Fastly and Partners Form Bytecode Alliance

Tyler McMullen

Fastly teams up with Mozilla, Intel, and Red Hat to form the Bytecode Alliance, an open-source community working together on WebAssembly-based compiler tools and foundations that work across many platforms.

Industry insights
WebAssembly

The Maturing of QUIC

Jana Iyengar

QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a lofty experiment to a standard set to modernize the internet.

Industry insights

Beta" A New Serverless Compute Environment

Tyler McMullen

Fastly is now offering access to its serverless compute environment in private beta. Meet Compute@Edge, a uniquely secure, performant, and scalable approach to serverless computing.

WebAssembly
Compute

Improving your search engine ranking (SEO) with Fastly

Andrew Betts

SEO is a murky science, with search engines striving to present the best possible result, and everyone else trying to figure out what "best" means in practice. What we do know is that reliability, speed, and security make a significant difference, and Fastly can help get you closer to number one.

Fastly streams logs to Kafka & Elasticsearch | Fastly

Dom Fee

Fastly expands real-time logging support to include six additional endpoints, including Apache Kafka and Elasticsearch.

Product
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