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Don’t Let Your CDN Get in the Way of Your Continuous Development Needs

The Fastly Collective

Continuous integration is the process of completely automating code commit and test practices, thereby avoiding a manual workflow that is inefficient and subject to human error.

Engineering

How we built a better TLS certification authority

Shiloh Heurich

Managing certificates can be a timely process but thanks to Fastly's CA, Certainly, it just got a lot simpler. Take a deep dive into how it came to be.

Security
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Fastly Participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework

Owen Kirshner

Fastly is committed to ensuring safe and secure data transfers, which is why we are active participants in the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF).

Security
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Yes, of course we’re faster. But we’re also more secure.

Lakshmi Sharma

Stop choosing between speed and security. Here’s how Fastly customers get better security AND improve performance (and reduce complexity and save money too).

Company news
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Back to Basics: Directory Traversal

Fastly Security Research Team, Matthew Mathur

In this post, we'll explore the application vulnerability directory traversal. What is it and how can you protect your apps from it?

Security

Fastly Interns Making an Impact: Summer 2023

Christina Garvey

At Fastly, we believe that a good internship program should make an impact, be educational and immersive. Meet our Summer 2023 interns!

Culture
WebAssembly

Fastly Stores power fast decisions and edge data access

MJ Jones, Bryan Hackett

We are pleased to announce that two key offerings of our edge data solutions, KV Store and Config Store, are now available.

Product
Compute

Join Fastly at Black Hat 2023

Shelly Kolvitz

Black Hat 2023 is just around the corner! Come visit the Fastly booth and join us for exciting presentations and giveaways.

Company news
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Network Effect Threat Report: Uncovering the power of collective threat intelligence

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 3 more

Announcing the Network Effect Threat Report, Fastly’s threat intelligence report with insights based on unique data from April to June of 2023

Security
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Cache Hit Ratio (CHR) as a security metric

Peter Teichman

The Cache Hit Ratio has usually been understood as a performance metric, but there are also serious security benefits that come with improving your CHR!

Security
Performance

How to write Rust unit tests for your Compute application

Leon Brocard

Wondering if your edge applications are working? Time to test! In this post, we'll explore how to unit test for a Rust application using Viceroy.

Compute
Edge network

Introducing the 2023 Forrester Consulting TEI Study

Leigh Clancy

Forrester Consulting conducted a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, commissioned by Fastly in July 2023, to understand the potential return on investment (ROI) that organizations may realize by using Fastly.

Platform
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Back to Basics: OS Command Injection

Fastly Security Research Team, Matthew Mathur

What is an OS Command Injection? In this blog, we'll explore the web application vulnerability, OS Command Injection, and how to prevent it.

Security

Unified Origin Observability at Fastly

Ajay Bharadwaj, Dom Fee

We are pleased to announce that Origin Inspector, Fastly’s turnkey origin visibility product, is now available to Compute customers.

Compute
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Building in Real-Time with Pushpin

Ashley Vassell

We are excited to announce that Pushpin is now part of the Fast Forward program! It acts as a proxy server that pins client connections open, making it easy to build real-time API endpoints.

Edge network
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Fastly Achieves AWS Security Competency Status

Mili Mathews

This designation recognizes that Fastly has demonstrated proven technology and deep expertise that helps customers achieve their cloud security goals.

Company news
Security

Get Better Visibility with Edge Observer, Now in Public Beta

Dom Soegono, Henry Zhang

Over a year ago, we embarked on a journey to build an all-encompassing, flexible interface to centralize visibility and insights across your Fastly account and services. Today, we are excited to bring this new interface, Edge Observer, into public beta - now available to all accounts and customers.

Edge network
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Simpler, Better Pricing with Fastly

Lakshmi Sharma

Starting today we are officially launching simplified, flat-rate packages that get you more across Network Services, Security, and Compute offerings. It’s simple to try and buy Fastly with predictable billing.

Product
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CVE-2023-34362: Progress MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection Vulnerability

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 3 more

What you need to know about CVE-2023-34362: Progress MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection Vulnerability

Security

Turning a Fast Network into a Smart Network with Autopilot

Lorenzo Saino, Jeremiah Millay, + 2 more

Learn about Fastly’s new advanced automation that handles more traffic, more efficiently, and see the data from the record-breaking 2023 Super Bowl.

Platform