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Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.1

Simon Wistow

We care deeply about all things open source and standards, and we’re excited to see how the Fediverse grows in the coming months. Today, we're explaining how it works and how we support it.

Industry insights
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Brotli: Compressing Data Efficiently | Fastly

James Sherry

As the importance of web performance is clear, more and more are adopting standardized metrics for measuring performance like Core Web Vitals that provide standard quality signals to track.

DevOps
Performance

Fastly Wins 2023 DEVIES Award for Glitch!

Jesse von Doom

Fastly’s Glitch has won a 2023 DEVIES Award in the Developer Environments & Coding Tools category.

Company news
DevOps

Neil Hanlon and Rocky Linux | Fastly

Hannah Aubry

Fastly interviews Neil Hanlon, infrastructure lead of Rocky Linux, an open-source enterprise operating system and member of our Fast Forward Program.

Culture
DevOps

Jupyter’s nbviewer.org: Yuvi Panda on open internet values | Fastly

Hannah Aubry

We’re thrilled to welcome Project Jupyter’s nbviewer to our Fast Forward program. To learn more about the Jupyter nbviewer project, and project Jupyter’s values, we sat down with contributor Yuvi Panda.

Culture
DevOps

Fastly Wins 2022 Devportal Award as Fastly Fiddle Turns 5

Andrew Betts

Fastly Fiddle, a key feature of the Fastly Developer Hub is a powerful and flexible testing sandbox that allows developers to test configurations without putting their production environments at risk.

DevOps
Company news

The Signals Series, Part 3: Signals at the Edge

Blake Dournaee

Learn how to use next-gen WAF signals to identify known actors and track responses. We’ll also look at how moving some of the security decisioning to Fastly’s edge can further protect downstream systems through the use of custom response codes.

Security
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Easy Debugging with Compute@Edge Log Tailing UI | Fastly

Dom Soegono

The Fastly CLI is an excellent tool during development and debugging, when an engineer is typically working within the codebase and command line. But it may not always be the most readily available tool when you’re viewing observability metrics and dashboards in the browser. Our new C@E Log-Tailing UI solves this problem.

DevOps
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Introducing Cloud WAF Terraform Support

Liam Mayron

Terraform, from HashiCorp, enables DevOps teams to deploy cloud infrastructure as code. Fastly supports Terraform across our product lines and today we’re excited to share enhancements to our Next-Gen WAF Terraform provider for our Cloud WAF deployment model which will further streamline operations for our secure DevOps users.

Security
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Fast Forward: Let’s build the good internet together

Artur Bergman, Hannah Aubry

We believe in an internet that is free, open, and safe for all. And we believe the only way to get there is if we all build and nurture it. Together.

DevOps
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Building a Collaborative Internet

Anil Dash

The most powerful thing about the internet isn’t the technology it's built on; it’s the people building and using it.

DevOps
Culture

Syntax highlight Fastly VCL files in Visual Studio Code

Leon Brocard

With Fastly’s new Visual Studio Code extension, Fastly Varnish Configuration Language (VCL), you can now syntax highlight Fastly VCL code.

DevOps
Engineering

Astro on the Edge in under 2 minutes with Fastly

Jonathan Speek

Did you know you can easily serve static sites from the edge with Fastly? Here’s how to get an Astro site published on Fastly’s Compute for free in less than 2 minutes.

DevOps
Compute

Using Client Hints to Detect Disparities

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa

Learn how User-Agent Client Hints work, explore privacy-related features and concerns, and how the partial adoption and incompleteness of this emerging standard can be used to detect behavior disparities.

DevOps
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Seven Ways to Deploy Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF in Kubernetes

Brendon Macaraeg

DevOps teams adopt new tools and frameworks like application containers and Kubernetes, a container orchestration system, to more efficiently and quickly build and release applications.

Security
DevOps

Enhancing Web App User Experience

Jennifer Fleming

Use these 8 ways to improve user experience to make sure your web applications are performing at their best.

DevOps
Industry insights

The Signals Series, Part 2: Diving into System Signals

Liz Hurder

Today we want to dive into the capabilities of system signals and how our wide range of signals provides customers with the most comprehensive out-of-the-box application protection.

Security
DevOps

Privacy Week Ends, But Work Continues | Fastly

Anil Dash

Many companies across our industry agree that privacy is a human right. We love to hear that. At Fastly, we understand that privacy is just the right thing to do

Privacy
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OpenTelemetry Part 3: Using OpenTelemetry in Compute

Katsuyuki Omuro

Our first OpenTelemetry library for Compute is now available, enabling your Compute application to generate spec-compliant traces, providing deeper insights about its performance and resources. In this post I'll show you how easy it is to add this support to an edge application.

DevOps
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OpenTelemetry Part 2: Using OpenTelemetry in VCL

Andrew Betts

We're starting to get excited about OpenTelemetry, and want you to be able to observe your Fastly services just like you do with apps running in your core cloud provider — and see the stories of your end user's journeys mapped end to end.  VCL services can emit OpenTelemetry data, and be part of that story.

DevOps
Observability