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What Fastly saw on election night
Farzam Ebadypour
Learn how voter fatigue and alternative media are changing public engagement with politics and how that impacted election night in the U.S..
War story: RPKI is working as intended
Job Snijders
Explore the transformative impact of RPKI on the Internet. Discover how collaboration and perseverance drive fundamental changes in routing reliability and security.
Battleground states: News media traffic during the 2024 election debates
Lloyd Tanaka
This blog describes the aggregated traffic in the seven states to news media outlets during the presidential and VP debates.
Optimizing your multi-CDN infrastructure to improve performance
Natalie Lightner
Learn how a multi-CDN infrastructure can, and should be, optimized for performance. Get tips from Fastly on considerations to evaluate against your current content delivery strategy.
OpenJS Foundation and Fastly Announce Strategic Collaboration to Support the Evolution of the JavaScript Ecosystem
Austin Spires
The OpenJS Foundation is excited to announce a strategic partnership with Fastly, to enhance the performance, security, and scalability of JavaScript projects across the globe.
Fastly Instant Purge™: Under 150ms for Over a Decade
Laura Thomson
Since 2011, Fastly has been able to purge content globally in 150ms, we're excited to see other vendors catch up and help create a better internet.
How to Reduce Egress Traffic Costs with a CDN
Ashley Hurwitz
Explore the benefits of Origin Offload and how it can help you reduce egress traffic costs and more.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Level up your images: JPEG XL now supported by Image Optimizer
Ping Hu
Learn more about how Fastly's Image Optimizer works with JPEG XL to significantly reduce image size without losing data or impacting performance.
Origin Offload: A measure of CDN efficiency for reducing egress cost
Monique Barbanson, Peter Teichman, + 2 more
Cache hit ratio shouldn't be the only metric you use to understand CDN performance. In this post, we'll explore the importance of Origin Offload.
It’s free, instant, and yours! Fastly’s free developer accounts are here
Simon Wistow
We’re excited to announce free developer accounts. You can instantly get started and take advantage of the most developer-friendly edge platform in the world.