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Delivering Super Bowl for more than a decade -- and breaking records in the process
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.
Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.1
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.
Examining Chrome's TLS ClientHello Permutation | Fastly
On January 20th, Chrome shipped an update that changed the profile of one of the most popular TLS client fingerprinting algorithms, JA3. In this short blog post we’ll describe the change and our observations across Fastly's network.
Fifth time’s a charm: Fastly is the only vendor to be named a Customers’ Choice for Web Application and API Protection five years in a row
What a run! We are so excited to announce that – for the fifth year in a row – the Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) has been recognized as a “Customers’ Choice” in the Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer”: Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) report.
Brotli: Compressing Data Efficiently | Fastly
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.
Fastly Wins 2023 DEVIES Award for Glitch!
Fastly’s Glitch has won a 2023 DEVIES Award in the Developer Environments & Coding Tools category.
Compute + Edge Messaging? Introducing Fanout
Fastly’s Fanout, a pub/sub style message bus built on Fastly infrastructure that operates in the Edge Messaging space, is now available in Limited Availability.
Neil Hanlon and Rocky Linux | Fastly
Fastly interviews Neil Hanlon, infrastructure lead of Rocky Linux, an open-source enterprise operating system and member of our Fast Forward Program.
Available Now: Fastly Automation Tokens
Announcing the availability of Fastly Automation Tokens: an authentication token that enables non-human clients to perform actions via the Fastly API.
Jupyter’s nbviewer.org: Yuvi Panda on open internet values | Fastly
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.
Streaming Continued to Grow in 2022, With Some Surprises
Here are the main trends (and a few surprises) Fastly encountered in streaming in 2022, and what we expect in the future.
What's Next in Cybersecurity for 2023 | Fastly
Cybersecurity continued to be a hot topic this year. From cloud adoption to automation, here are four security industry trends to expect in 2023.
Fastly Wins 2022 Devportal Award as Fastly Fiddle Turns 5
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.
The Signals Series, Part 3: Signals at the Edge
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.
Self-service Image Optimization announced | Fastly
We are happy to announce the availability of the long awaiting self-service of our Image Optimization product. Once enabled, users can manually enable/disable image optimization on each/all of their Fastly service configurations. We are pleased to bring this support to the world's fastest-edge network.
The Importance of Multi-CDN in Two Charts
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.
Easy IAM authentication for GCP services now available. | Fastly
Announcing general availability of IAM (Identity Access Management), secrets-free authentication for our Google BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Pub/Sub logging integrations.
Survey: 73% Rise in Cybersecurity Spend by 2023 | Fastly
Fastly is excited to share the findings of a cybersecurity survey of IT and security leaders in a new report called, “Fighting fire with fire: Cybersecurity strategies are suffering as a result of complexity.”
Easy Debugging with Compute@Edge Log Tailing UI | Fastly
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.
Introducing Cloud WAF Terraform Support
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.
