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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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Introducing scripted testing for Fastly fiddle

Andrew Betts

Fastly Fiddle allows for instant experimentation with Fastly's edge cloud behaviours without having to set up a Fastly account. Now, we're adding the ability to define assertions to specify the behaviour you are trying to create.

Engineering

Fastly + Terraform: now better, together

Phil Groman

Fastly announces sweeping updates to reconcile its Terraform provider with key Fastly functionality, empowering customers with more automation and customization of services.

Observability in Live Broadcasts and Quality of Experience

Lee Chen

Over the past decade, we’ve come to rely on client-based technologies like Conviva and other vendors to identify areas of QoE where we might improve. While client-based analytics provide valuable insights into viewership and critical last-mile performance data, they don’t provide a complete picture. 

Build with Fastly: Code Blocks & Tutorials

Adam Denenberg

We're introducing a new collection of tools built just for developers — gathered on one easy-to-search page — so you can discover, test, and deploy edge solutions in a faster, safer way. Filter through dozens of useful code blocks that you can copy and paste directly into your Fastly service configuration, then customize and deploy.

Customers
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We stand with the LGBTQ+ community

Erica Perkins

Fastly has joined more than 200 companies to sign a “friend of the court” brief that urges the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure the protection of LGBTQ+ people. 

Culture

Using Feedback to Improve User Experience

Austin Spires

Our new user onboarding experience is built on our values of putting the customer first, transparency, and constantly iterating and innovating. See what's new, and our methodologies for improving.

Culture
Engineering

Prevent attacks with proof of work | Fastly

Andrew Betts

With attackers using publicly available lists of compromised passwords in an attempt to steal accounts, proof of work is a good way to slow the attackers down.

Security

Fastly’s Initial Public Commit

Artur Bergman

Today, we listed on the New York Stock Exchange, marking our first day of trading as a public company. Our IPO is a big milestone for Fastly, as well as a celebration of the collective success of our global community and customers. I am so proud of what we’ve built together — and this is just the beginning.

The lifecycle and performance of a Lucet instance

Adam Foltzer

Lucet, Fastly’s open source WebAssembly compiler and runtime system, is designed to take WebAssembly beyond the browser, and build a platform for faster, safer execution on Fastly’s edge cloud. This post will introduce each step in the Lucet lifecycle, and benchmark its performance to highlight how we keep overhead low.

WebAssembly

Expanding Fastly’s Partnership with Microsoft Azure | Fastly

Marcus Sarmento

We believe that developers should have the freedom to choose the best possible solution for their needs — without worrying about unpredictable costs. The internet should be a great experience for you and your team regardless of what platforms you use to digitally transform your business. That’s why we’re partnering with Microsoft Azure to offer cost-effective data transfer to our joint customers. Starting today, any outbound data transfer between select Azure regions and Fastly POPs will be highly available, and data transfer costs will be covered by Fastly through our agreement with Microsoft.

Engineering

Feature policy: the web's missing guardrails

Andrew Betts

Over almost 30 years of its life, the web has grown beyond anyone's imagination, and the platform has become immensely powerful and flexible. With that power and flexibility comes complexity, and the potential for slow or insecure websites to deliver a poor user experience that drives people away from the web. Feature policy is here to help, and we've built a tool to show you how to use it.

Lucet Takes WebAssembly Beyond the Browser | Fastly

Pat Hickey

Today, we're thrilled to announce the open sourcing of Lucet, our native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. WebAssembly is a technology created to enable web browsers to safely execute programs at near-native speeds, and it's been shipping in the four major browsers since early 2017.

Engineering
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Supercharging Server Timing with HTTP trailers

Hooman Beheshti, Dragana Damjanovic

Server Timing is a great mechanism for collecting new performance metrics in the browser. Fastly and Firefox have teamed up to make them even more powerful by adding support for using Server Timing with HTTP trailers.

Engineering
Industry insights

Why Fastly loves QUIC and HTTP/3

Jana Iyengar

We're thrilled to be so invested in QUIC, a new transport protocol that is more responsive, secure, and flexible than what the internet uses today. Learn why, straight from our very own Jana Iyengar, one of the editors of the core document.

Industry insights