Laura Thomson
SVP, Engineering, Fastly
Laura Thomson is SVP of Engineering at Fastly. Prior to Fastly, Laura spent more than a decade at Mozilla in a variety of engineering leadership roles, and has worked as a software engineer, company founder, consultant and computer science academic. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, where she currently serves as Treasurer. She previously served on the board of ISRG, the nonprofit that operates Let’s Encrypt. She has written several books on various open source technologies, including the best-selling PHP and MySQL Web Development (with Luke Welling). Laura has contributed to many open source projects. In addition, she has spoken at dozens of conferences worldwide on a variety of technology topics. Laura is from Melbourne, Australia, but now lives in Maryland, USA.
Fastly Instant Purge™: Under 150ms for Over a Decade
Since 2011, Fastly has been able to purge content globally in 150ms, we're excited to see other vendors catch up and help create a better internet.
3 Essentials for a High-Impact Live Stream Event
Live streaming major events have become a significant part of how audiences experience concerts and sports. Find out the essentials to providing a world-class live stream.
Preventing outages with resilient architectures
Fastly’s resilient architecture principles prevent outages, mitigate severity, and deliver on our availability promises without compromising performance.
Lies, stats, debunking Cloudflare | Fastly
A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.
Engineers' Role in Digital Transformation
The pressure on engineering teams right now is substantial as leaders are tasked with driving their companies’ success, even during the chaos of 2020. In the face of uncertainty, there are steps leaders can take today to spark innovation, support their people, and enable growth — ultimately positioning themselves, their teams, and their companies survive and thrive.
