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Three Key CDN Optimization Strategies

Natalie Lightner

Enhance your organization's web and application performance by evaluating your CDN strategy. Learn about advanced caching, origin offload, and real-time insights.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

Learn Fastly Compute in your browser in minutes

Sue Smith

Easily provide your users with a better experience by building a serverless edge computing app that runs on the Fastly network.

Compute
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5 Reasons to attend Xcelerate NYC

Shelly Kolvitz

Interested in attending Xcelerate NYC? Join us and gain insights from industry leaders, engage in hands-on workshops, and expand your professional network.

Events
Company news

Fastly Summer Interns: Making an Impact

Christina Garvey

Fastly offers structured summer internships for aspiring professionals, join our program and contribute meaningfully while gaining valuable experience.

Culture

Enhancing Security Capabilities with VCL

Annie Srivastava, Juan Carlos Murillo

Fastly VCL has the advantage of being easy to learn, and extremely fast and safe to execute at the edge.

CDN & Delivery
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A Look at Global CDN Performance in China

Natalie Lightner

Learn the importance of selecting the right CDN provider for a high-speed digital experience in China.

Performance
CDN & Delivery

How to choose the right WAF

Ashley Hurwitz

Not all WAFs are created equal, but how can you navigate the complicated market? Find out how to choose the best WAF for your organization.

Security

Bot Wars: How Bad Bots are Hurting Businesses

Daniel Corbett, James Nguyen

Discover insights from our survey of 500 IT and security leaders on how malicious bots impact businesses. Learn to safeguard your digital assets effectively.

Security
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Websites get faster when moving to Fastly

Lucas Olslund

Get real-time content control, boost performance, and develop modern applications, all faster at the edge. See how Fastly stacks up against Cloudflare.

Performance
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Where is the edge actually located?

Sue Smith

We continue our deep dive into what is edge computing with our next installment, where is the edge actually located?

DevOps
Edge network

3 Essentials for a High-Impact Live Stream Event

Laura Thomson

Live streaming major events have become a significant part of how audiences experience concerts and sports. Find out the essentials to providing a world-class live stream.

Streaming
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Build "For you" recommendations using AI on Fastly!

Andrew Betts, Dora Militaru

Forget the hype; where is AI delivering real value? Let's use edge computing to harness the power of AI and make smarter user experiences that are also fast, safe and reliable.

DevOps
Edge network

5 Reasons Why You Should Attend Xcelerate Sydney

Shelly Kolvitz

Don’t miss out on our inspiring event, Xcelerate Sydney. Join us and gain insights from industry leaders, engage in hands-on workshops, and network with peers.

Company news
Events

Server-sent events with Fastly

Andrew Betts

Server-sent events allow web servers to push real-time event notifications to the browser on a long-lived HTTP response.

Performance
DevOps

Future-Proofing Your CDN: Why Infrastructure and Network Considerations Matter

Ashley Hurwitz

Beyond having great performance, it’s important to take a close look at the infrastructure and network that the CDN runs on.

CDN & Delivery
Edge network

The benefits of a modern CDN: How to boost your revenue

Leigh Clancy

A modern CDN can improve availability, handle traffic surges, and distribute content -- improving the user experience and increasing engagement, leading to more revenue for your brand.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

An easy intro to edge computing

Sue Smith

Wondering what edge computing is all about? It's a distributed computing framework that brings applications closer to data sources like IoT devices or local edge servers.

CDN & Delivery
Edge network

Your content management system could be so much less painful

Andrew Betts

CMSs may make the internet go, but they also come with several common challenges that companies, regardless of industry, can face. But that's where Fastly comes in.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

Is purging still the hardest problem in computer science?

Andrew Betts

One of the most common reasons for customers sending support tickets to Fastly is for help with purging content from cache - either it stays too long, or doesn't stay long enough. We have the best purging mechanism of any edge network, so what's going on?

CDN & Delivery
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Learning at Fastly: A Shared Experience

Sue Smith

Learn how the team at Fastly is creating learning experiences that offer practical steps to convey the value and purpose of our technology and products.

Culture