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  • Altitude NYC 2017 in review: videos and slides

    Anna MacLachlan

    Altitude NYC brought together Fastly engineers and industry leaders like The New York Times and Nordstromrack.com | Hautelook to discuss complex problems in security, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and more. Check out our recap and watch the session videos to learn about the vision behind Fastly, take a look under the hood of a DDoS attack, see what went down on election night at the NYT, and more.

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  • The New York Times on Prepping for the 2016 Election

    Anna MacLachlan

    At Altitude NYC, *The New York Times* CTO Nick Rockwell gave us a peek inside *The New York Times*’ stack and culture (and how he’s redefined risk from both a corporate and engineering standpoint), and described how they prepare for major events — such as the 2016 presidential election.

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  • Extended Technical Trainings at Altitude San Francisco

    Simon Wistow

    [Join us June 28-29](https://www.fastly.com/altitude) for Altitude San Francisco, our annual west coast summit. This year, we’ve added a full day of extended technical trainings on June 28, followed by keynotes and main sessions on June 29. Come explore the future of edge delivery, infrastructure, and enforcement.

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  • New York Media on surviving DDoS and building a better web

    Anna MacLachlan

    At Altitude 2016, New York Media’s CTO discussed surviving a massive DDoS and the steps they took to mitigate, gave us a peek inside their stack, and described how New York Media is building a better web, working towards creating a symbiotic relationship between readers, publishers, and advertisers to ensure great experiences for everyone.

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  • HashiCorp on recovering from failures

    Anna MacLachlan

    Altitude NYC featured war stories from Fastly customers like Vogue, Spotify, and HashiCorp. Read on for our recap of Seth Vargo’s talk, where he discussed how HashiCorp was able to quickly recover from an outage (which included an alarming “purge all” moment).

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  • Technical trainings & the future of edge delivery at Altitude

    Anna MacLachlan

    Altitude SF 2017 featured hands-on trainings and talks from industry leaders like Reddit, the ACLU, Slack, TED, and more. We explored the future of edge delivery, heard about emerging trends in cloud infrastructure and DevOps, and tackled complex problems in cloud security. Read on for our recap of the event (plus slides, videos, and photos).

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  • Updates to the Fastly control panel

    Jessica Allen, Brian Santiago

    We’ve recently had the opportunity to turn customer feedback into new features for the Fastly control panel. Hear from our lead product designers on the latest changes, including an all services homepage, easier way to customize your VCL, and more.

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  • Spotify on diagnosing cascading errors

    Anna MacLachlan

    Our customers’ war stories have taught us that even the most routine changes (like restarting a database or switching backends) can sometimes lead to unexpected errors, but savvy teams already have the tools and processes in place to resolve them as they happen. In this post, we’ll share how Niklas Gustavsson, Principal Engineer at Spotify, encountered live (in production, and accessible to end users) but unplayable content after what should have been a routine change, as well as lessons learned and Niklas’ favorite debugging tool.

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    Events

  • ButterCMS builds reliable API | Fastly

    Jake Lumetta

    Without realizing it, many of us are building single points of failure into our stack. Fastly customer ButterCMS requires near-100% uptime for their customers, but after multiple outages nearly crippled their business, they became “obsessed” with eliminating single points of failure. Read on to learn how they use Fastly and other digital strategies to make sure they keep their customers’ websites up and running.

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  • Elevating the user experience at Fastly

    Jessica Allen, Brian Santiago

    We’re excited to share several recent user experience updates that enhance WAF, Image Optimizer, and user management functionality in the Fastly control panel.

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    Product

  • Build with Fastly: Code Blocks & Tutorials

    Adam Denenberg

    We're introducing a new collection of tools built just for developers — gathered on one easy-to-search page — so you can discover, test, and deploy edge solutions in a faster, safer way. Filter through dozens of useful code blocks that you can copy and paste directly into your Fastly service configuration, then customize and deploy.

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  • Super Bowl Memes & Internet Trends

    Gino Lang, Jess Cook

    A look at internet traffic trends and user behaviors during the 2020 Super Bowl.

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    Observability

  • Generous, innovative, resilient: this is the web at its best

    Joshua Bixby

    We’ve long recognized that the organizations in our community build more than applications and codebases. In this unprecedented global moment, our customers, partners, and friends are showing up for their communities in generous and innovative ways. Here are a few we’re applauding.

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    Culture

  • Engage young voters, drive civic engagement | Fastly

    Hannah Aubry

    DoSomething.org, part of our Open Source and Nonprofit Program, believes in activating young people to support change. And in the face of COVID-19 and a U.S. election year, they’ve imagined all-new ways to connect with users and driver voter engagement.

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  • Conversations with Devs Building the Modern Internet

    Hannah Aubry

    Andrew Betts, Fastly’s Principal Developer Advocate, gets technical with Spread Group Senior Software Architect, Martin Breest, digging into his team’s creative use of chatbots and A/B testing, and solving challenges around 3D image-mapping at the edge.

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  • Exceptional Stories of Digital Innovation From 2020

    Joshua Bixby

    Developers and builders around the world stepped up to meet the moment in a variety of ways in 2020. We’re humbled to be both a witness and enabler for how they supported their organizations, many even thriving under incredibly difficult circumstances. Today we’ll share some of their stories with you.

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  • Compute@Edge: Serverless Insights by Company | Fastly

    Kimmie Nguyen

    Vox Media, Mux, and PerimeterX share how Compute is unlocking performance, agility, and creativity across their organizations.

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    Compute

  • PayPal: secure payments at the edge | Fastly

    Lindsay Morris

    Online payments giant PayPal uses Fastly’s edge platform to deliver a more secure, faster, and more reliable user experience at a time when digital payments are surging.

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    Compute

  • Endless OS Foundation Bridges Digital Divide | Fastly

    Hannah Aubry

    The Endless OS Foundation saw a big spike in traffic at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But thanks to modern CDN features like soft purge, TTL, and segmented caching, they’re able to continue bridging the digital divide.

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    Performance

  • Fastly Academy: on-demand learning at your fingertips. | Fastly

    The Customer Enablement Team

    Fastly Academy, our new on-demand learning center, contains lessons for learners of all levels. It’s one more way we’re helping you work — and expand your skills — the way that fits you best.

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