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Who Takes the Gold in the Fastly Games?
David Belson
The Fastly Games compare countries in four data-driven events based on aggregated network traffic: IPv6 adoption, HTTP versions, operating system (OS) versions, and browser versions.
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Modern CDN for Digital Publishing
John Agger
The key to customer retention is serving the most up-to-date content instantly, personalizing that content for readers, and ensuring online experiences are responsive, safe, and secure. Here are three ways a modern content delivery network, or CDN, can help you do just that.
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What benefits does "the edge" offer digital publishing? | Fastly
Bridget Lane
By bringing your content closer to the reader, you bypass the conventional cost and rules associated with server space and infrastructure maintenance, and you gain some additional benefits. Let’s explore them.
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HTTP/3 and QUIC free for all customers | Fastly
Jana Iyengar
QUIC version 1 is officially formalized, and QUIC deployments will now move away from using temporary draft versions to the newly minted version 1.
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Live sports delivery challenges conquered | Fastly
John Agger
With zero tolerance for rebuffering and streams that scale from zero to massive in no time, the stakes are unusually high, making live sport the most demanding content type to deliver, requiring both flexibility and resiliency.
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Five ways to make your CDN work harder for you
Chris Buckley, John Agger
There are many more well-documented reasons to make a CDN part of your distribution. In this blog post we examine some lesser-known rationales to help you scale and improve your business.
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A closer look at low latency delivery
John Agger
Latency — the lag between when the packet leaves the streaming source and when it arrives at the consumer’s device — takes many forms, with the most common being lag, dropped frames, buffering, and with that reduced video quality.
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Delivering What Modern Broadcasters Need at IBC | Fastly
Noel Penzer
With streaming now the most common way for viewers to watch content, the modern broadcaster needs to focus on scalability, resiliency, and security.
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DIY Platforms Need Right Partners | Fastly
Andrew Peterson
Following years of growth, IP broadcasting—aka "streaming"—has become the largest content channel, surpassing both cable and broadcast accounting in July and reaching 35% of viewers in August, according to Nielsen.
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The Importance of Multi-CDN in Two Charts
John Agger
When content delivery networks (CDNs) garner coverage in the media, it's almost always because of an outage. Yet, outages are not a major reason to move to adopt multiple CDNs.
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Streaming Continued to Grow in 2022, With Some Surprises
John Agger
Here are the main trends (and a few surprises) Fastly encountered in streaming in 2022, and what we expect in the future.
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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.
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Delivering Super Bowl for more than a decade -- and breaking records in the process
John Agger
2023 marks the 11th year of Fastly’s involvement in the Super Bowl. Back in 2013, we secured dedicated bandwidth to online businesses advertising throughout the game. However, since 2018 Fastly has been actively involved in delivering the live Super Bowl stream from broadcasters to millions of online viewers around the globe.
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Three industry developments to track at NAB 2023
John Agger
Here are three big media & entertainment industry developments to follow at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2023.
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3 Essentials for a High-Impact Live Stream Event
Laura Thomson
Live streaming major events have become a significant part of how audiences experience concerts and sports. Find out the essentials to providing a world-class live stream.
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