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Why having more POPs isn’t always better

Simon Wistow

We’re often asked why having more POPs doesn’t necessarily make a CDN faster. To help illustrate, we’ll use an analogy of convenience stores versus supermarkets.

Recapping our second Fastly Security Speaker Series

Window Snyder

On May 25, we had over 50 security researchers and engineers from the Bay Area and beyond in our San Francisco office for our recurring Fastly Security Speaker Series. This event focused on hardware security, including how to detect firmware attacks, and how to execute hardware side-channel attacks.

Announcing POPs in Toronto and Boston

Ryan Landry

Our team has been hard at work — we’ve launched new points of presence (POPs) in Toronto and Boston.

Fastly updated terms, docs, use policy & privacy policy | Fastly

Paul Luongo

As a result of customer feedback, we’ve launched a few changes to some of our key legal and compliance frameworks.

Fastly Security Speaker Series: Second Edition

Maarten Van Horenbeeck

In February, our Chief Security Officer Window Snyder announced the Fastly Security Speaker Series, which we created to share cutting edge security topics with the wider community. We hosted over 50 security researchers and engineers in an event focused on machine learning and reverse engineering.

Today, we’re happy to announce the second event in our Fastly Security Speaker Series, which will take place on May 25th from 6:00 to 8:45 pm. Join us at Fastly’s San Francisco headquarters for food, drinks, and ample opportunity for good discussion with your peers in the security research community. You can register to attend here.

Scaling Fastly Network: Fighting FIB | Fastly

João Taveira Araújo

This post is the first in a series detailing the evolution of network software at Fastly. We’re unique amongst our peers in that from inception, we’ve always viewed networking as an integral part of our product rather than a cost center. We rarely share what we do with the wider networking community however, in part because we borrow far more from classic systems theory than contemporary networking practice.

Fastly + Drupal: better than ever

Kimmie Nguyen, Mark Loewenstein

We’re pleased to announce the Alpha release of our Drupal 8 module, which allows for an even tighter integration with core Fastly features. We look forward to feedback from the Drupal community. For those attending DrupalCon May 9-13, swing by booth 603 to learn more.

Improvements to Edge Dictionaries

Jason Evans

We’re continuing to build on our unique ability to push your logic and decisions to the edge, and are happy to announce some exciting enhancements to our Edge Dictionaries. Our latest improvements include Upsert functionality as well as the ability to make bulk updates and issue patch commands.

Introducing Professional Services and Support Plans

Kimmie Nguyen

As a company, we’re centered around support and service. We were founded by operations engineers, for operations engineers, who set out to create the support experience they always wanted from a vendor. With that in mind, we’re pleased to announce our new Support Plans and Professional Services Packages.

Improvements to our Heroku add-on

Michael May

Heroku customers now have greater control and visibility of their Fastly service, with full access to the Fastly configuration panel, a command-line plugin for the Heroku toolbelt, and a revamp of our Heroku add-on pricing plans.

Viewer Engagement Insights in Video Delivery

Ashok Lalwani

We’re pleased to announce that we now send additional metrics from our On-the-fly Packaging (OTFP) service to provide more granular visibility into the packaging and delivery process. You can stream Video Delivery Insights as logs from your Fastly service to the endpoint of your choice, giving you the flexibility to analyze and modify your settings on the fly.

Lean Threat Intelligence Part 2: The foundation

Rusty Bower, Zack Allen

In part 1, I discussed the general workflow the Threat Intelligence team at Fastly uses to plan for projects. After performing research and seeing what others have done in this space, we can now move forward with technology selection.

Timeline for HTTP/2 Support

Artur Bergman

We’ve recently restructured some of our internal engineering teams in an effort to improve shipping velocity, and dedicated resources are working on an HTTP/2 strategy that meets Fastly standards.

College competitions build strong security teams | Fastly

Maarten Van Horenbeeck

Building a great team is one of the most difficult challenges security managers encounter. Luckily, there are a few initiatives that make things easier on us, including the Information Security Talent Search (ISTS) at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Announcing Event Logs

Donna Wu

Event Logs help you keep track of key changes to your Fastly service, increasing visibility and improving troubleshooting.

We now support Log Streaming for Google Cloud Storage

Simon Wistow

We’re pleased to announce we now support log streaming to Google Cloud Storage (GCS) endpoints. Fastly’s GCS support strengthens our existing Log Streaming capabilities for common endpoints.

Recap of the Fastly Security Speaker Series

Window Snyder

On February 25, we hosted 50+ security researchers and engineers from the Bay Area and beyond in our San Francisco office for the first event in the Fastly Security Speaker Series. This event brought together security engineers and researchers to examine new perspectives around important security topics.

Lean Threat Intelligence, Part 1: The plan

Zack Allen

Fastly Security Researcher Zack Allen discusses how you can draw from open source resources to build a lean and powerful Threat Intelligence plan for your organization.

Introducing Fastly Security Advisories

Window Snyder

Today we’re announcing Fastly Security Advisories. Fastly will publish these to address security concerns that either trigger customer interest or require customer action to address.

Introducing Fastly’s Magento 1 Extension

Björn Kraus, Emily Friedberg

Magento merchants can now seamlessly enjoy the speed and flexibility of our Varnish-based CDN platform from within their Magento interface with zero code changes required.