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How Rack and Roll lets us grow our network with purpose
Kat Diamantine, Davin Camara
Rack and Roll is our new, scalable process for building and delivering POPs worldwide. From concept to go-live, discover how we build and ship our servers to expand our global network.
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Fastly's changelog tracks API enhancements | Fastly
Keavy McMinn
Fastly launches a more robust and transparent API changelog that will make it easier for developers to get the facts they need to keep building the experiences users love.
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Fast Path Failover Tech Boosts Delivery | Fastly
Lorenzo Saino, Raul Landa
Improve traffic deliverability by mitigating the impact of internet weather by automatically detecting and re-routing underperforming edge connections.
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Seven tips to improve live streaming
John Agger
At Fastly, we’ve helped some of the world’s leading broadcasters and content owners deliver live events that scale from local news to the very largest sporting events. And we’ve learned a thing or two along the way. Check out our seven tips for live streaming success.
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TLS with Fastly is now easier and more flexible
Blake Dournaee
Fastly now offers two new TLS services for the trust, flexibility, and scalability customers need to bring the best of the internet to life.
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Protecting WebSocket Protocol Apps and APIs with Fastly
The Fastly Collective
The 4.2 release of the Fastly agent introduces WebSocket traffic inspection, enabling customers to extend the coverage of applications, APIs, and microservices protected by Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF to apps and services that utilize the WebSockets protocol.
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Fastly and Partners Form Bytecode Alliance
Tyler McMullen
Fastly teams up with Mozilla, Intel, and Red Hat to form the Bytecode Alliance, an open-source community working together on WebAssembly-based compiler tools and foundations that work across many platforms.
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The Maturing of QUIC
Jana Iyengar
QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a lofty experiment to a standard set to modernize the internet.
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Beta" A New Serverless Compute Environment
Tyler McMullen
Fastly is now offering access to its serverless compute environment in private beta. Meet Compute@Edge, a uniquely secure, performant, and scalable approach to serverless computing.
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Improving your search engine ranking (SEO) with Fastly
Andrew Betts
SEO is a murky science, with search engines striving to present the best possible result, and everyone else trying to figure out what "best" means in practice. What we do know is that reliability, speed, and security make a significant difference, and Fastly can help get you closer to number one.
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Fastly streams logs to Kafka & Elasticsearch | Fastly
Dom Fee
Fastly expands real-time logging support to include six additional endpoints, including Apache Kafka and Elasticsearch.
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Introducing scripted testing for Fastly fiddle
Andrew Betts
Fastly Fiddle allows for instant experimentation with Fastly's edge cloud behaviours without having to set up a Fastly account. Now, we're adding the ability to define assertions to specify the behaviour you are trying to create.
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Fastly + Terraform: now better, together
Phil Groman
Fastly announces sweeping updates to reconcile its Terraform provider with key Fastly functionality, empowering customers with more automation and customization of services.
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Observability in Live Broadcasts and Quality of Experience
Lee Chen
Over the past decade, we’ve come to rely on client-based technologies like Conviva and other vendors to identify areas of QoE where we might improve. While client-based analytics provide valuable insights into viewership and critical last-mile performance data, they don’t provide a complete picture.
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Build with Fastly: Code Blocks & Tutorials
Adam Denenberg
We're introducing a new collection of tools built just for developers — gathered on one easy-to-search page — so you can discover, test, and deploy edge solutions in a faster, safer way. Filter through dozens of useful code blocks that you can copy and paste directly into your Fastly service configuration, then customize and deploy.
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We stand with the LGBTQ+ community
Erica Perkins
Fastly has joined more than 200 companies to sign a “friend of the court” brief that urges the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure the protection of LGBTQ+ people.
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Using Feedback to Improve User Experience
Austin Spires
Our new user onboarding experience is built on our values of putting the customer first, transparency, and constantly iterating and innovating. See what's new, and our methodologies for improving.
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Prevent attacks with proof of work | Fastly
Andrew Betts
With attackers using publicly available lists of compromised passwords in an attempt to steal accounts, proof of work is a good way to slow the attackers down.
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Fastly’s Initial Public Commit
Artur Bergman
Today, we listed on the New York Stock Exchange, marking our first day of trading as a public company. Our IPO is a big milestone for Fastly, as well as a celebration of the collective success of our global community and customers. I am so proud of what we’ve built together — and this is just the beginning.
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The lifecycle and performance of a Lucet instance
Adam Foltzer
Lucet, Fastly’s open source WebAssembly compiler and runtime system, is designed to take WebAssembly beyond the browser, and build a platform for faster, safer execution on Fastly’s edge cloud. This post will introduce each step in the Lucet lifecycle, and benchmark its performance to highlight how we keep overhead low.
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