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The benefits of a modern CDN: How to boost your revenue

Leigh Clancy

A modern CDN can improve availability, handle traffic surges, and distribute content -- improving the user experience and increasing engagement, leading to more revenue for your brand.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

An easy intro to edge computing

Sue Smith

Wondering what edge computing is all about? It's a distributed computing framework that brings applications closer to data sources like IoT devices or local edge servers.

CDN & Delivery
Edge network

Your content management system could be so much less painful

Andrew Betts

CMSs may make the internet go, but they also come with several common challenges that companies, regardless of industry, can face. But that's where Fastly comes in.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

Is purging still the hardest problem in computer science?

Andrew Betts

One of the most common reasons for customers sending support tickets to Fastly is for help with purging content from cache - either it stays too long, or doesn't stay long enough. We have the best purging mechanism of any edge network, so what's going on?

CDN & Delivery
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Learning at Fastly: A Shared Experience

Sue Smith

Learn how the team at Fastly is creating learning experiences that offer practical steps to convey the value and purpose of our technology and products.

Culture

Level up your images: JPEG XL now supported by Image Optimizer

Ping Hu

Learn more about how Fastly's Image Optimizer works with JPEG XL to significantly reduce image size without losing data or impacting performance.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

Back to Basics of Automated Attacks: Account Takeover

Arun Kumar, Fastly Security Research Team

Explore account takeover attacks and mitigations including modern authentication with 2FA/passkeys, and anti-bot measures to enhance account security.

Security

Origin Offload: A measure of CDN efficiency for reducing egress cost

Monique Barbanson, Peter Teichman, + 2 more

Cache hit ratio shouldn't be the only metric you use to understand CDN performance. In this post, we'll explore the importance of Origin Offload.

CDN & Delivery
Performance

Detection as Code with Fastly's WAF Simulator

Simran Khalsa, Fastly Security Research Team

Being able to test and validate rule behavior is critical to a maintainable WAF. With our WAF Simulator, you can validate rules in a safe simulation environment.

DevOps
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Fast Forward: We’re here for the maintainers

Hannah Aubry

Join Fastly in our mission to empower the open internet. Learn how we're making a significant impact by supporting projects and the people behind them.

Culture

It’s free, instant, and yours! Fastly’s free developer accounts are here

Simon Wistow

We’re excited to announce free developer accounts. You can instantly get started and take advantage of the most developer-friendly edge platform in the world.

CDN & Delivery
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Build a “For You” recommendation page in an hour with Fastly

Kailan Blanks, Andrew Betts

On this episode of Fastly Developers Live, we discuss the importance of curating a personalized "For You" page using Fastly.

CDN & Delivery
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Everything we announced at our first Fastly Special Event

Anil Dash

Fastly is making the internet better in an instant! In case you missed our first-ever special event for developers, check out all the highlights, features, and fun from the day!

Company news
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Built with Fastly Spotlight: LeakSignal stops GenAI data leaks

Austin Spires, Wesley Hales

Learn about how LeakSignal leverages Fastly's industry-leading edge cloud platform to power its cutting-edge data flow governance solution.

Edge network
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Fastly and Google partner to enhance your privacy while protecting Chrome users from online threats in real-time

Monique Barbanson, Austin Spires

We're excited to announce that Google Chrome is leveraging Fastly Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) Relay to support the Standard protection mode in Chrome.

Security
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Unlocking Cost Savings: The Benefits of Moving to a Modern CDN Provider

Leigh Clancy

Boost your business's performance and save on operational costs with a modern CDN. Find out how a CDN can help you achieve your goals and cut down expenses.

CDN & Delivery

Fastly's Observability Unleashed: New Updates and Insights

Dom Fee, Dom Soegono

Don't miss out on our upgraded Observability packages, providing customers with the ability to purchase multiple features in a single product package.

Edge network
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Time’s up! How RPKI ROAs perpetually are about to expire

Job Snijders, Doug Madory

In this post, we'll dig deeper into the mechanics of RPKI to understand how the cryptographic chain contributes to the effective expiration date of a ROA.

CDN & Delivery
Security

Active exploitation of unauthenticated stored XSS vulnerabilities in WordPress Plugins

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 2 more

We have observed active exploitation attempts targeting three high-severity CVEs: CVE-2024-2194, CVE-2023-6961, and CVE-2023-40000.

Security
Industry insights

A design upgrade for the Fastly Control Panel

Jennifer Fleming, Sarah Sang

Discover a new way to navigate the Fastly Control Panel with our improved layout and search interface. Easily find services, domains, users, and TLS certificates.

Customers
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