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Fastly talks with Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team IT Director Michael Taylor | Fastly

Margaret Arakawa

In this interview, Fastly CMO Margaret Arakawa sits down with Michael Taylor, IT Director for Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team, to discuss the role technology and security play within the Formula 1 team, as well as ways the two companies hope to work together to push the limits of innovation, performance, and the fan experience.

Culture
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Log4j JNDI Attack Signal Now Available

Daniel Corbett

We are excited to announce the general availability of our new LOG4J-JNDI attack signal, which allows for detecting and mitigating Log4Shell attacks.

Security
Product

Free Trial Origin and Domain Inspector Today!

Dom Fee, Dom Soegono

We are excited to launch our first Observability free trial experience into the Fastly app! Gain full access to both Origin and Domain Inspector free for up to 30 days!

Product

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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New Privacy Protocols and Edge Infrastructure | Fastly

Patrick McManus

Edge cloud platforms, like Fastly, provide key roles in delivering the infrastructure for the modern, privacy-aware network. We are working with more partners every day to explore the fit between our edge cloud and the needs of these blinding applications.

Privacy
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A QUIC chat with Jana Iyengar: Rebuilding fundamental standards of the web

Anil Dash

A can’t-miss conversation with Fastly’s VP of Product, Infrastructure Services, Jana Iyengar about getting his hands dirty among a whole community of brilliant people who have been busy rebuilding the fundamental standards that underpin the internet that we all use every day.

Industry insights
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Private Access Tokens and the Future of Anti-Fraud

Robert Gibson

Learn how the new authorization protocol, Private Access Tokens, is changing how DevOps teams and security professionals fight against fraudulent activity:

Privacy
Security

How Joining Fastly Improved Glitch’s Privacy Game

Jesse von Doom

Easy friendship may be rare—especially when it comes to #privacy—but with Fastly + Glitch, we were there from day one. We have the same goal: a consistent, powerful and insightful #data policy that begins and ends with the user.

Privacy

Kicking Off Privacy Week @ Fastly

Jana Iyengar

The internet is an unprecedented venue for connecting with others, transacting business, learning and expressing ourselves. However, some of the fundamental mechanics of the web lend themselves to surveillance technologies that track our behavior, interests and even personal relationships without our consent.

Privacy
Events

Run your Next.js app on Fastly

Katsuyuki Omuro

With our new next-compute-js library, you can now host your Next.js application on our Compute@Edge platform – giving you the benefits of both the Next.js developer experience and our blazing-fast, world-wide edge network, and you don't even need an origin server.

Engineering
Compute

Node.js-style HTTP interfaces for Compute

Katsuyuki Omuro

Our Compute JavaScript platform provides Request and Response objects, but these are based on the Fetch standard, rather than the req and res objects traditionally seen in Node.js programs. If you have a program designed for Node.js that you are thinking about moving over to Compute, or if a library you want to use is designed for Node, our new open-source library, http-compute-js, has got your back.

Product
Compute

No-origin, static websites at the edge!

Katsuyuki Omuro

Many of the world's websites are static, and Fastly’s content delivery network gets those pages from origin to visitors quickly. But what if we took the origin out of the equation?

Engineering
Compute

Video Cache Prefetch with Compute

Jim Rainville, Vadim Getmanshchuk

By using Compute to pre-warm the cache, you are not only using a powerful, globally distributed network to do the work, but you also solve the pitfalls associated with legacy prefetch.

AWS Lambda and Cloud WAF upgrades for wider deployment | Fastly

Julie Rockett

WAF deployment flexibility is critical to keep up with the pace of business. That’s why we innovate on the widest range of WAF deployment methods in the market.

Security

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.

Events
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Fastly in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Web App and API Protection | Fastly

Lakshmi Sharma

Fastly Recognized in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Web Application and API Protection

Security

Interview with HUMAN CEO Tamer Hassan

Lakshmi Sharma

Fastly announced a reseller partnership with HUMAN Security, Inc. to better safeguard enterprises and internet platforms from sophisticated bot attacks and fraud. We sat down with HUMAN CEO and Co-founder Tamer Hassan to learn more about bots, and what HUMAN is doing to protect its customers from the threat.

Platform
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Automating and Defending Nefarious Automation

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa

If your application is on the internet, chances are it has been subjected to nefarious automation. These events can include many different attacks – including content scraping, credential stuffing, application DDoS, web form abuse, token guessing, and more.

Security

Taming shoe bots: it’s no small feat

Katsuyuki Omuro

Automated scripts, or bots, make up a large portion of product purchases on the web today. To some businesses, these bots cause harm, but for others, bots help drive revenue. If you are an online business owner, your stance on how to address them will vary. Whatever your needs, Fastly’s edge cloud scales up to meet the challenge, and helps you to create the right set of policies for your business.

Industry insights

OpenTelemetry part 4: Instrumenting Fastly Fiddle

Andrew Betts

We are very excited about OpenTelemetry. We wrote about why, and also about how to emit telemetry from Fastly's VCL services, and our new Compute platform. But OpenTelemetry's value truly shines when you add it to everything in your stack. What does that look like and is it worth it? We instrumented Fastly Fiddle, from top to bottom, to find out.

Engineering
Compute