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How to Save Christmas for Beyoncé

Anil Dash

This Christmas, Netflix is bringing the world a Beyoncé halftime show, promising unforgettable moments - but will this massive live event go off without a hitch?

CDN & Delivery
Performance

Navigating the Challenges of Online Live Streaming

Hossein Lotfi

Join us as we delve into the realities of live event streaming, highlighting the lessons learned from disruptions and our commitment to delivering reliable viewer experiences.

Industry insights
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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..

CDN & Delivery
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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.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

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.

CDN & Delivery
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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.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

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.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

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.

Performance
CDN & Delivery

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.

Performance
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Server-sent events with Fastly

Andrew Betts

Server-sent events allow web servers to push real-time event notifications to the browser on a long-lived HTTP response.

Performance
DevOps

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.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

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.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

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?

CDN & Delivery
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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.

CDN & Delivery
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.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

3 performance benefits every CDN should have

Ashley Hurwitz

Many CDNs offer the same types of services, but not all are created equal. An online business' success depends on a modern, efficient CDN that can serve content fast.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

5 tips for creating speedier, more sustainable websites with Fastly

Leon Brocard

How can Fastly help improve website performance and digital sustainability? Check out these five key recommendations.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

Improving your WebSocket stack

John Agger

Websocket limitations can be costly and inefficient if you want to push a lot of real-time content. Discover how Websockets paired with Fastly Fanout improves real-time communication.

Compute
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Be among the first to try the greatest KV Store ever made

Dennis Martensson, Bryan Hackett

Discover a new level of speed with our data storage solution that outperforms traditional KV stores. Build something amazing today!

Compute
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TLS: More secure; always fast

Emmanuel Thompson

This post details the journey of improving the security of TLS private keys and improving the performance and efficiency of TLS handshakes along the way.

Privacy
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