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Improving HTTP with structured header fields
The HTTP community has been busy modernizing the web’s protocol over the last decade, with multiple revisions of the core specification, a number of extensions, HTTP/2, and now HTTP/3. Unfortunately, the way we define and use HTTP header fields hasn’t changed much since the beginning, with underspecified headers (and lots of different ways to handle them) causing interoperability issues, developer pain, and even security problems. But help is coming.
User error logs collected | Fastly
Network error logging reports client-side failures and successes, enabling developers to understand how their sites function in the real world and how they might improve performance. In this post, we’ll explore the NEL framework, how it provides visibility, and ways to collect and process the resulting data.
Reflecting on our inclusion and diversity journey
There’s been an outpouring of corporate statements supporting Black Lives Matter over the past few weeks— but statements of solidarity don’t matter unless they are backed by action designed to create real change. We’re taking a look back at our diversity and inclusion journey, and the ongoing work we need to do as a company to manifest our aspirations.
100 Tbps capacity: scaling for digital demands | Fastly
The growth of our global network allows us to stand at the ready with our customers, supporting and protecting their innovations at the edge.
Fastly: Life led by People, Process, and Technology.
Our unique approach to business continuity planning focuses not just on ensuring that our systems remain operations, but also that our processes and people have the backup and support they need. Here’s a template to make it yours.
Core Web Vitals: Improve Your Website Speed | Fastly
Understand what Core Web Vitals means and how you can improve some of these metrics with a CDN configuration.
Black Lives Matter: We are taking a stand.
We have a responsibility to use our platform and our privilege to say that Black Lives Matter — and commit to the work that statement entails.
Fastly and devs invest in WebAssembly | Fastly
WebAssembly is helping to lay the foundation for the future of edge computing. And together with the Bytecode Alliance and the developer community at large, we’re investing in new technologies to make WebAssembly easier and more performant.
From our community: top serverless trends and challenges
Unpack the trends with serverless, as seen from our Compute beta community: from the top use cases and benefits, to the perceived challenges with serverless as a whole.
Fastly Developer Hub: All you need to build on Fastly | Fastly
Our Developer Hub has everything developers need to build apps and websites at the edge. Solve problems faster with code samples developed by Fastly’s experts.
Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast?
QUIC promises a built-in, low-latency handshake. But can it achieve its promise alone? Let’s look at the value of handshake compression in helping QUIC achieve fast startup performance.
Life at Fastly: bringing the Fastly spirit remote
Ensuring employee success is more than just making sure they have the right equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s also about finding a balance between work life and social life, and supporting teammates with activities that let them know we’re all in this together.
Fastly's COVID-19 employee care | Fastly
A healthy internet starts with healthy people. To take care of Fastlyans, we’re proactively surveying our people, boosting internal communications, focusing on mental health and wellness, and improving manager resources.
QUIC matches TCP's efficiency, says our research. | Fastly
Compare QUIC vs TCP to better understand the computational efficiency of both.
Decoding the digital divide
This series on the digital divide examines the data behind several yet-unexplored facets of the issue, the people and places it impacts most greatly, and what can and should be done to close this persistent gap.
Evaluating new languages for Compute
Learn about our process and approach for evaluating which new languages our serverless compute environment — Compute — will support next.
Generous, innovative, resilient: this is the web at its best
We’ve long recognized that the organizations in our community build more than applications and codebases. In this unprecedented global moment, our customers, partners, and friends are showing up for their communities in generous and innovative ways. Here are a few we’re applauding.
HTTP/3 and QUIC help needy connections | Fastly
HTTP/3 and QUIC aim to help the internet's so-called long-tail connections — connections that are most in need of improvement. What could that look like? For some, it could mean being able to actually use video calling and streaming media or even make a workable phone call. Let's look at the design principles that make these advancements possible.
COVID-19 response: people first | Fastly
It’s been more than a month since going fully remote, and I’m reflecting on our internal response, how it’s shifted weekly based on learnings, and what it all says about our values and community.
How COVID-19 is affecting internet performance
How is COVID-19 affecting internet performance? We analyzed regional and vertical trends and found that, despite COVID-19-related traffic increases, the internet is up to the challenge.
