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Overriding Origin TTL in Varnish, or My Beginner's Mistake

Rogier Mulhuijzen

A long time ago, I was helping out at a gaming conference where there was an intranet CMS using a Twitter search plugin. Unfortunately, the rather saturated Internet connection was slowing down all of the Twitter search requests. Each page needed 4 searches, at 500ms each, for a total of 2-3 seconds per page.

Engineering

Understanding Fastly’s Cloud Accelerator

Artur Bergman

Today, we’re happy to announce a collaboration with Google Cloud Platform that will combine the power of Google’s infrastructure with the speed of our real-time content delivery network.

Large File Delivery Improved with Streaming Miss Support | Fastly

Simon Wistow

Today, we’re excited to announce two related features that lower bandwidth costs and reduce origin load for Fastly customers, resulting in faster downloads for their users: Streaming Miss and Large File Support.

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New Gzip Settings and Deciding What to Compress

Steve Souders

Fastly recently conducted an extensive analysis of which resources should be compressed. Today, the results of that analysis are reflected in the Fastly app, which allows our customers to adopt better gzip settings. This not only makes our customers' websites faster, but it will also reduce monthly bandwidth charges.

Performance

Catch Digital to Write VCL for Fastly and Drupal

Jonathan Dade

We recently decided to work with Leon Kessler at Catch Digital to introduce VCL that would make it easier for new Drupal customers to get up and running with Fastly. Here’s how we did it, and how you can use it to improve the performance of your websites, mobile applications, and APIs.

Customers

Increase Your Hit Ratio With This Simple Tip

Rogier Mulhuijzen

If you're caching URLs that include user input, such as a search box, and the search is case insensitive, there's a really easy way to increase your hit ratio: convert the URL to lowercase.

Disabling SSLv3 Due to POODLE Vulnerability

Sean Leach

Based on our understanding of the POODLE vulnerability (mainly the fact that there is currently no workaround), and the fact that we have very little traffic running over SSLv3 (around .5% globally), we are disabling SSLv3 for all Fastly SSL customers, effective immediately. This will mainly affect users of Windows XP Pre-service pack 3 combined with IE version 6. If you are in this group, please upgrade to a more recent browser.

Security

Enhancing, Formatting and Analyzing Fastly Logs

Trevor Parsons, PhD

This blog post will outline (1) how you can log additional data in your Fastly logs, (2) how to update your logging format so that it’s both human-readable and easily analyzed by your logging providers, and (3) how you can analyze and spot trends in your data.

Learn More About Fastly Features With Inline Help

Simon Wistow

This week, we’re rolling out Inline Help, a new enhancement to our user interface that will make Fastly easier to use for new customers and seasoned experts.

Hooman Beheshti talks caching | Fastly

Hannah Levy

Hooman Beheshti, VP of Technology at Fastly, recently gave a talk at Velocity NYC 2014 about the challenges CDNs face with dynamic content and how businesses can use programmatic means to fully integrate their applications with their CDN.

Performance

Using Boltsort to Make API Caching More Efficient

Rogier Mulhuijzen

There's a Fastly module available called "boltsort" which allows you to easily sort the parameters in the query string, so that you will always end up with the same URL, no matter what order the consumer of your API placed them in.

Stale-While-Revalidate, Stale-If-Error Available Today

Steve Souders

Fastly is excited to announce that as of today, we support stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error. As a company dedicated to building a better Internet, we work hard to identify and support new standards that move the Web forward. Read on for an explanation of how these Cache-Control extensions make the Web faster and more reliable for browsers and CDNs, and check out documentation of these features.

Performance
Product

A New Stage of Growth for Fastly

Artur Bergman

Today we’re excited to announce that Fastly has raised a $40 million Series C round.

Using ESI, Part 1: Simple Edge-Side Include

Simon Wistow

Fastly customers can use ESI to cache pages that contain both cacheable and uncacheable content (such as user-specific information).

Performance

Best practices for using the Vary header

Rogier Mulhuijzen

Vary is one of the most powerful HTTP response headers. However, if used incorrectly, it can cause problems for developers. Understand vary header best practices to reduce mistakes and improve performance.

Performance
Engineering

More Advanced Security Features for Your Fastly Account

Simon Wistow

Security is one of our top priorities at Fastly. We recognize that having your account compromised could have a profoundly negative impact on your business, leaving you and your customers vulnerable and at risk. So, with enthusiastic feedback from our customers, we've been testing out ways to improve account security features. Today, we're pleased to release two-factor authentication and IP account access restrictions.

Security

Adaptive Plots Using Epoch

Ryan Richards

Introduced in the most recent release (0.6.0), adaptive plots add a level of flexibility and interaction that was sorely missing in the library. In this post, we’ll talk about what this means, and how you can leverage the plots in your applications to create smooth, beautiful, and useful data visualizations.

Caching “Like” and “Share” Buttons

Simon Wistow

In a blog post about caching with tracking cookies, I explained how Fastly’s edge scripting language allows businesses to cache things that were previously uncacheable as well as send data back via our real-time logging system. But what happens when you need to cache something more complicated, such as a product that handles user interaction?

Performance

Test New Encodings With Fastly, Including WebP

Rogier Mulhuijzen, Austin Spires

At Fastly, we believe that the freedom to experiment is what makes the web great. We're excited by the cutting edge breakthroughs in file encodings that are happening almost every day, making the web better and faster.

Fastly at OSCON 2014

Elaine Greenberg

Next week, we’ll be traveling up to beautiful Portland, Oregon to attend OSCON, O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention. We’re extremely excited to sponsor, attend, and speak at the conference this year.