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Fastly's plan for plan for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 deprecation

Sean Leach

The PCI DSS 3.1 standard has changed. In order to keep you up-to-date and secure online, we’re announcing our plan for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 deprecation.

Security

How to use Fastly + Logentries for insight into log data

Anna MacLachlan

Read our Q&A with Logentries’ Director of Product Marketing, Matt Kiernan, and learn how to use Fastly + Logentries for immediate insight into log data.

Engineering a more resilient internet

Maarten Van Horenbeeck

Fastly Director of Security Engineering Maarten Van Horenbeeck shares his experiences of how the security community can protect the “global commons” that the internet has become.

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How Fastly’s Heroku add-on helps improve experiences

Anna MacLachlan

In this Q&A, Fastly’s Michael May and Heroku’s Peter Cho discuss the benefits of Fastly’s Heroku add-on and why it’s important for enterprises to focus on both developer and customer experiences.

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Edge Dictionaries for Faster Decision Making | Fastly

Jason Evans

We’re always seeking ways to give our customers more control at the edge. With this in mind, we’re excited to announce Edge Dictionaries, which give you the ability to create readable key/value pairs using our API.

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Restricting access to content

Vladimir Vuksan

In this blog post, Vladimir Vuksan outlines three common methods you can use for blocking or limiting access to content with Fastly.

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GitHub’s Joe Williams discusses mitigating security threats

Anna MacLachlan

At Fastly Altitude 2015, Joe Williams, a computer operator at GitHub, gave a talk on mitigating security threats (like DDoS attacks) with a CDN. This post is an overview of his talk, with full video and slides included.

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The importance of performance monitoring

Mehdi Daoudi

Your site's performance needs to be monitored closely, but once you start your monitoring initiative, you might find yourself drowning in an endless wave of information. This can make it difficult for you to get insight into your online systems. Here are some simple steps for performance monitoring that will produce easy-to-interpret, actionable data.

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Raising $75 million to fund global expansion

Artur Bergman

We’ve raised $75 million in Series D funding led by Iconiq Capital, with new contributions from existing investors Amplify Partners, August Capital, Battery Ventures, IDG Ventures, and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

Extending your application to the edge with Fastly

Hooman Beheshti

We often say that Fastly can easily become an extension of your app — there are three major components that make this possible: caching, control, and visibility.

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How Fastly builds POPs

Blake Crosby

Building a new point of presence (POP) from scratch involves all of the engineering groups within Fastly. Our data center infrastructure (DCI) team spearheads and coordinates the POP build from hardware procurement to putting the POP into production and serving traffic.

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Expanding our presence in Japan: Partnership and a new POP

Artur Bergman

This week, I’m in Tokyo to attend SoftBank World 2015. Today I had the honor of sharing the stage with Ken Miyauchi, President & CEO of SoftBank Corp., to make a few announcements about Fastly’s expanding presence in Japan.

OSCON 2015 takeaways: open source innovation, caching strategies & more | Fastly

Elaine Greenberg

O'Reilly’s Open Source Convention (OSCON) is always exciting. It’s easy to feel the collaborative, open source spirit throughout the conference and the events surrounding it. This year, our team traveled to Portland, Oregon to talk shop about all things web performance.

How to fuzz a server with American Fuzzy Lop

Jonathan Foote

In this blog post, I'll describe how to use AFL's experimental persistent mode to blow the doors off of a server without having to make major modifications to the server's codebase. I've used this technique at Fastly to expand testing in some of the servers that we rely on and others that we are experimenting with.

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The technology that empowers real-time journalism

Anna MacLachlan

We’re more engaged online than ever before, especially when it comes to consuming news. If you work with online media brands, you’re well aware that the way readers engage with news events is changing.

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Caching with CORS

Rogier Mulhuijzen

Before diving into CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing), I need to mention JSONP, which is the other solution to getting data from a different “Origin.” In Using ESI, Part 2: Leveraging VCL and ESI to Use JSONP, Simon explains what JSONP is, and how to cache it with Fastly, using one Fastly specific feature, req.topurl. Now, with Varnish 4.1, req.top.url (note the extra period) is available, and it allows you to do the same thing with vanilla Varnish.

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Fastly Engineers Discuss Coding Bootcamps | Fastly

Anna MacLachlan

It’s difficult to change course mid-career and educate yourself on a new subject after college has ended. For those entering the field of engineering, it often means taking coding classes or taking part in a coding bootcamp, such as those offered at App Academy, General Assembly, Hackbright Academy, and Hack Reactor.

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Recap of Altitude 2015, Fastly’s first customer summit

Hannah Levy

Last week, we hosted our first customer summit, Altitude 2015, at the SFJAZZ Center. Our goal was to bring together our customers and the people who build our products to discuss web performance, Varnish, and the future of Fastly.

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Announcing Window Snyder as CSO

Artur Bergman

Today, I’m happy to announce that Window Snyder has joined our executive team as Chief Security Officer. Window was formerly a security and privacy strategist at Apple as well as security chief at Mozilla Corporation. At Fastly, she’ll help manage our expanding security offerings through our global edge infrastructure platform.

Why Marketers Should Prioritize Performance

Anna MacLachlan, Hannah Levy

You may not know that the software your developers use can affect the success of your marketing activities. It’s within both teams’ interests to collaborate to ensure good performance.

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