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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

OpenTelemetry Part 1: Making the Edge less distant

Andrew Betts

One of the main reasons you use Fastly is that we are close to your end users, able to respond in a few milliseconds.  But that can also make it feel like Fastly is "outside" your system, "in front". To feel like Fastly is truly part of your application architecture, you need to observe your whole system at the same time, in one place.  OpenTelemetry is a new standard that can help.

DevOps
Observability

Fastly's observability and monitoring: empowering smart delivery and high performance | Fastly

Dom Fee, Lakshmi Sharma

In this post, we break down our current observability offering and highlight some of the ways DevOps and SRE teams are using Fastly to investigate anomalies, improve performance and up-time, and engage in observability-driven development.

DevOps
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Bootstrap a Compute project with Fastly Fiddle

Mark McDonnell

The Fastly CLI now supports bootstrapping Compute projects using fiddles made in Fastly Fiddle as a template. This enables users to get a local developer environment up and running very quickly using one of many ready-made solutions from Fastly’s public code example library, which can then be adapted and customized for your own needs.

DevOps
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Cloud Deploy simplifies Compute@Edge projects | Fastly

Kailan Blanks

We’re introducing Cloud Deploy, a wizard that helps you start building on Compute by deploying and customizing templates, and sets you up with an automated deployment workflow and best development practices.

DevOps
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DevOps Practices Primed to Combat Threats | Fastly

Brendon Macaraeg

Organizations implementing DevOps practices often sacrifice security for speed, exposing them to potential threats. In reality though, many DevOps practices are already primed for security initiatives.

Security
DevOps

The Importance of Securing Applications & Security in DevOps

Julie Rockett

Forrester’s 2021 Annual State of Application Security Report stresses the need for updated application security tools that can be easily integrated into development plans and architecture.

Security
DevOps

Integrating Security in DevOps

Brendon Macaraeg

Your organization may have operational and cultural roadblocks to overcome when it comes to integrating security and DevOps. These tips can help you ensure a smooth transition to more secure DevOps.

DevOps
Security

Building Security Mindset in Engineering

Kevin Rollinson

Explore how leaders from both sides of the aisle have built thriving secure DevOps cultures by putting trust in people first.

Security
DevOps

Engineering leaders: security is your job, too

Sean Leach

The rise of secure DevOps has left many security professionals vying for the attention and support of their engineering counterparts. What can engineering leaders do to bridge the gap? We have four ideas to help you build security into your DevOps culture, workflows, and goals.

Culture
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The new rules for web app and API security

Sean Leach

Nearly everything we know about building web applications and APIs has changed in the last few decades. So why hasn't security? We argue it's time for a new approach to web app and API security, one that follows suit with how applications are really built and teams really work.

DevOps
Security