Engineering
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How to Tame Varnish Memory Usage Safely
Daniel Axtens
How Fastly turned a shelved Varnish idea into 25% fewer memory writes and real system-wide gains.
CDN & Delivery+ 4 more
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Design for Chaos: Fastly’s Principles of Fault Isolation and Graceful Degradation
Brian Haberman
Learn how Fastly builds a resilient CDN through fault isolation & graceful degradation. Discover our principles for minimizing disruption & ensuring continuous service.
CDN & Delivery+ 4 more
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Fastly’s Pillars of Resilience: Building a More Robust Internet
Brian Haberman
Discover Fastly's Pillars of Resilience: unwavering availability, minimized latency, and disruption resistance for a robust internet experience with our global network.
CDN & Delivery+ 4 more
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The Tools Gap: Why Developers Struggle to Code Green
Alina Lehtinen-Vela
77% of developers want to code sustainably, but most lack the tools to measure impact. Fastly’s survey reveals the barriers and opportunities in green coding.
Industry insightsEngineering
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Publish your website without a host
Sue Smith
Deploy static sites to Fastly Compute directly from your browser or IDE. Publish blogs, apps, and websites at the edge without hosting.
CDN & Delivery+ 3 more
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Teach Your robots.txt a New Trick (for AI)
Brooks Cunningham
Control how AI bots like Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended use your website content for training. Update your robots.txt file with simple Disallow rules.
CDN & Delivery+ 3 more
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Bridging the real-time testing gap: Fanout support in local development for Fastly Compute
Katsuyuki Omuro
Fastly Compute now supports local Fanout testing, letting you build and validate real-time features without deploying to production.
Engineering+ 2 more -
Powering PyPI with Advanced Traffic Engineering
Joe Williams, Stephen Strowes
PyPI serves millions daily. See how Fastly’s Individual Provider Anycast unlocks faster, smarter routing for Python’s package index.
CDN & Delivery+ 4 more
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Vibe Shift? Senior Developers Ship nearly 2.5x more AI Code than Junior Counterparts
Alina Lehtinen-Vela
Fastly’s survey shows senior developers trust gen AI tools enough to ship 2.5x more AI code, while juniors stick to traditional coding and caution.
Industry insightsEngineering
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Request Collapsing Demystified
Stephen Crim
Boost website performance with request collapsing! Learn how it improves efficiency, reduces origin load, and optimizes caching for a snappy user experience.
Performance+ 2 more
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Demystifying Fastly’s Defense Against HTTP Desynchronization Attacks
Brian Haberman, Sandra Escandor-O’Keefe, + 1 more
Learn how Fastly's robust architecture and strict protocol parsing defend against HTTP desynchronization attacks, ensuring your web applications are secure.
Security+ 3 more
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ETags: What they are, and how to use them
Leon Brocard
How to optimize your ETags to speed up your site and reduce calls to your origin without requiring significant code refactoring or content overhaul.
DevOps+ 2 more -
How to Control and Monetize AI Bot Traffic Using Fastly and TollBit
David King, Lorraine Bellon
Monetize AI bot traffic! Fastly's Bot Management and TollBit have teamed up to offer granular control, performance, and flexibility to manage bots & unlock new revenue.
Security+ 2 more
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Getting Started with TypeScript on Fastly Compute
Katsuyuki Omuro
Getting started with TypeScript on Fastly Compute is simple! Learn how to add static typing to your JavaScript projects for robust development.
Compute+ 3 more
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Smarter Security Operations: Embracing Detection-as-Code
Simran Khalsa, Gary Harrison, + 1 more
Modernize security with Detection-as-Code. Learn how to automate threat detection & response using DevSecOps & tools like Fastly's WAF Simulator.
DevOps+ 2 more
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Over a decade later: The evolution of instant purge
Tyler McMullen, Julien Benoist
Explore the decade-long evolution of Fastly's instant purge technology. Learn about our decentralized approach, challenges faced, and innovations in scalability.
Performance+ 2 more
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We should still teach coding
Sue Smith
We should still teach coding, AI can't replace the critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills that programming instills.
DevOpsEngineering -
Building an actually secure MCP Server with Fastly Compute
Kay Sawada
Build a secure, scalable MCP Server with Fastly Compute. Learn to address vulnerabilities and ensure reliable performance for your LLM applications.
Compute+ 4 more
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Protecting Against Scrapers with Fastly Bot Management
Brooks Cunningham
Protect your website from scrapers and unauthorized access with Fastly Bot Management. Secure cached content, prevent price undercutting, and protect SEO.
Platform+ 3 more -
Using cURL to Test Origin Server Responses
Matt Torrisi
Curl, or cURL, is a utility that’s shipped by default on operating systems like MacOS and many Linux distributions that allows you to send an HTTP request to a URL and receive the result. In this post, we’ll walk you through how to use the tool to test an origin server’s response.
EngineeringPerformance
