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College competitions build strong security teams | Fastly

Maarten Van Horenbeeck

Building a great team is one of the most difficult challenges security managers encounter. Luckily, there are a few initiatives that make things easier on us, including the Information Security Talent Search (ISTS) at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Security

Announcing Event Logs

Donna Wu

Event Logs help you keep track of key changes to your Fastly service, increasing visibility and improving troubleshooting.

Product
Compute

We now support Log Streaming for Google Cloud Storage

Simon Wistow

We’re pleased to announce we now support log streaming to Google Cloud Storage (GCS) endpoints. Fastly’s GCS support strengthens our existing Log Streaming capabilities for common endpoints.

Engineering
Compute

Recap of the Fastly Security Speaker Series

Window Snyder

On February 25, we hosted 50+ security researchers and engineers from the Bay Area and beyond in our San Francisco office for the first event in the Fastly Security Speaker Series. This event brought together security engineers and researchers to examine new perspectives around important security topics.

Security

Lean Threat Intelligence, Part 1: The plan

Zack Allen

Fastly Security Researcher Zack Allen discusses how you can draw from open source resources to build a lean and powerful Threat Intelligence plan for your organization.

Security

Introducing Fastly Security Advisories

Window Snyder

Today we’re announcing Fastly Security Advisories. Fastly will publish these to address security concerns that either trigger customer interest or require customer action to address.

Security

Introducing Fastly’s Magento 1 Extension

Björn Kraus, Emily Friedberg

Magento merchants can now seamlessly enjoy the speed and flexibility of our Varnish-based CDN platform from within their Magento interface with zero code changes required.

Introducing the Fastly Security Speaker Series

Window Snyder

Today we’re announcing the Fastly Security Speaker Series, an informal event for bringing together researchers and engineers to share research, tools, and ideas. Fastly will bring some of the most innovative and thoughtful security researchers to Fastly headquarters in San Francisco to share their work. Our first event is February 25th, and our first two speakers are Alex Pinto and Rolf Rolles.

Security

The Beyoncé Drop (and other Super Bowl phenomena)

Anna MacLachlan

Last Sunday over 111.9 million viewers tuned in for the Super Bowl. As a CDN, we’re in a unique position — we help companies handle the impact of successful Super Bowl ads, and monitor the results in real time. We thought it might be interesting to share some of the traffic patterns we noticed during the big game.

Observability

Introducing MPEG-DASH support: enhancing Video on Demand

Ashok Lalwani

We’re proud to announce support for MPEG-DASH streaming format packaging. This feature lets you simplify the delivery of video content to your end users and reduce the operational costs associated with providing an exceptional user experience.

Product
Streaming

Update to our TLS 1.0 and 1.1 deprecation plan

Sean Leach

Last October, we announced our deprecation plan for TLS 1.0 and 1.1. The PCI Security Standards has since updated their guidance, and we are revising our deprecation schedule accordingly.

Security

Introducing fastly2git: version change visualization

Leon Brocard

Sales Engineer Léon Brocard created fastly2git, a Git repository for Fastly service changes, making it easy for you to see differences between versions. In this post, Léon discusses how fastly2git works, and how it can help you continue building great services on Fastly.

Engineering
Compute

Why Speed Matters with Bandwidth

Artur Bergman

We launched Fastly in July 2011 with seven employees and a mission to make web experiences faster. Four years later, Fastly has 240 employees (and growing), five offices (including a newly opened office in Denver), 26 global points of presence (POPs), and powers tens of thousands of websites.

Introducing our open source app training

Kami Richey

Customer Support Engineer Kami Richey built an application for testing Fastly. In this post, she walks you through setting up your own test application and using Fastly’s UI to explore commonly used features first hand.

Engineering
Product

Five ways to optimize your Drupal site

Neerav Mehta

Neerav Mehta, founder & CEO of Red Crackle, walks us through how to optimize your Drupal site.

Performance

Fastly's plan for plan for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 deprecation

Sean Leach

The PCI DSS 3.1 standard has changed. In order to keep you up-to-date and secure online, we’re announcing our plan for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 deprecation.

Security

How to use Fastly + Logentries for insight into log data

Anna MacLachlan

Read our Q&A with Logentries’ Director of Product Marketing, Matt Kiernan, and learn how to use Fastly + Logentries for immediate insight into log data.

Engineering a more resilient internet

Maarten Van Horenbeeck

Fastly Director of Security Engineering Maarten Van Horenbeeck shares his experiences of how the security community can protect the “global commons” that the internet has become.

Security

How Fastly’s Heroku add-on helps improve experiences

Anna MacLachlan

In this Q&A, Fastly’s Michael May and Heroku’s Peter Cho discuss the benefits of Fastly’s Heroku add-on and why it’s important for enterprises to focus on both developer and customer experiences.

Engineering

Edge Dictionaries for Faster Decision Making | Fastly

Jason Evans

We’re always seeking ways to give our customers more control at the edge. With this in mind, we’re excited to announce Edge Dictionaries, which give you the ability to create readable key/value pairs using our API.

Product
Compute