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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/.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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5 tips for creating a secure DevOps culture
Kevin Rollinson
Integrating security into your DevOps cycle isn’t something that happens overnight. Here are five tips for building a culture in which secure DevOps can thrive, enabling your team to build secure apps quickly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Compute Demo: New Serverless Compute Environment | Fastly
Sean Leach
Watch our Compute demo, and see the possibilities of our new serverless compute environment.
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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.
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