Simon Wistow
VP Strategic Initiatives, Fastly
Simon is a co-founder at Fastly, where he helps lead strategic initiatives. Before helping found Fastly, Simon was a senior search engineer at Yahoo! Europe, LiveJournal, SixApart, Scribd, and then at social help desk company Zendesk. In a past life, he worked on R&D for a leading VFX Company doing films like the Harry Potter series, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, Sunshine, and Wallace and Gromit. At one point he worked as a cowboy in Australia. Mostly because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Find him on Mastodon: @simonwistow@hachyderm.io
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Fastly named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Edge Delivery Services 2024
Celebrating our recognition as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Edge Delivery Services 2024, Fastly remains dedicated to empowering developers with cutting-edge solutions.
It’s free, instant, and yours! Fastly’s free developer accounts are here
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.
Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.2
This is the sequel (aka 2 Fastly 2 Fediverse) of a recent blog post where we wrote about the Fediverse and how we think we can help.
Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.1
We care deeply about all things open source and standards, and we’re excited to see how the Fediverse grows in the coming months. Today, we're explaining how it works and how we support it.
Fastly + Fanout: real-time messaging and edge computing combined | Fastly
We're thrilled to join forces with Fanout. The integration of Fanout technology into our network will help enable real-time app development at the edge with improved time-to-market, reduced friction, and unprecedented scale.
Easier edge building with Fastly and Glitch | Fastly
Our new partnership lets you deploy Glitch apps to Compute@Edge, making it even easier to build high-quality, customized digital experiences on our edge cloud platform.
Company culture in a hybrid work environment
In this video from Web Summit 2021, we discuss how you build and ensure your company culture when you have some team members in person and some at home.
3 Benefits CDN's Bring to Startups
A modern CDN can help improve SEO rankings, make it easier to deliver personalized content, and secure your sites and apps — three keys to a startup’s success.
Startups & Modern CDN Benefits
See the 4 ways startups use CDNs to hit their goals and our list of recommended CDN providers.
Adobe boosts performance and MTTR with Epsagon and Fastly logs | Fastly
Working together, Epsagon and Adobe’s Project Helix team built a very cool integration that uses clever parsing of Fastly VCL to generate tracing statements showing what variables have been created, updated, or deleted at every stage of a request and response in our platform.
Did you see that? Monitoring vs observability
You monitor distributed systems and log data, but what good does it do if you can't observe an actual problem when there is an issue? The reality is, you're drowning in log data and monitoring only gives you a high-level overview of a problem after it’s occurred. Enter observability.
7 business uses for logging
To create effective logs, you first need to consider what you’re trying to achieve in capturing and maintaining logs. If you don't begin with a clear business goal and proactively plan your logging strategy, you take the risk that you’ll find yourself either without the data you need at a critical moment, or overloaded with extraneous information. Here are 7 ways you can use logs.
3 Common logging challenges
Effective logging requires thoughtful planning and consistent tuning and maintenance. Here are three of the biggest challenges of logging.
Improved control + security with real-time logging
We know that our customers value visibility and control — actionable insight into what’s going on across your digital services, and the flexibility to make changes when necessary. Real-time logging lets you see what’s happening with your traffic, empowering you to make decisions and changes on the fly. In this post, we’ll share our latest logging updates — which allow for improved formatting and control, new and improved logging endpoint integrations, and enhanced security — and how to get started.
Demystifying the cloud
Like it or not, the cloud is here to stay. Although 81% of executives surveyed experience cloud FOMO (“fear of missing out”), it’s not peer pressure alone that’s driving cloud adoption; the cloud offers undeniable benefits to your business: boosting engagement with your customers, cutting costs, and empowering innovation. In this post, we’ll take a look at the different methodologies of cloud computing, cutting through the noise to offer our recommendation and vision for what’s ahead.
Extended Technical Trainings at Altitude San Francisco
[Join us June 28-29](https://www.fastly.com/altitude) for Altitude San Francisco, our annual west coast summit. This year, we’ve added a full day of extended technical trainings on June 28, followed by keynotes and main sessions on June 29. Come explore the future of edge delivery, infrastructure, and enforcement.
Introducing the Fastly savings calculator
Our CDN can cache more content than traditional solutions (static as well as rapidly changing, “event-driven” content), offloading traffic that would otherwise go to origin, allowing our customers to save on infrastructure costs. But just how big are these savings? To help answer this question at a glance, we recently launched our savings calculator, which offers quick insight into the savings you can expect as a result of improved cache hit ratios.
Announcing Altitude NYC
Altitude NYC brings a group of smart people together to solve complex problems in cloud infrastructure, security, DevOps, and more. You’ll hear from industry leaders like The New York Times, Spotify, Vogue, and Nordstromrack.com | HauteLook, and leave with real-world implementations you can take back to your team.
Why having more POPs isn’t always better
We’re often asked why having more POPs doesn’t necessarily make a CDN faster. To help illustrate, we’ll use an analogy of convenience stores versus supermarkets.
We now support Log Streaming for Google Cloud Storage
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.
