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Don’t just take our word for it — Forrester says that Fastly Compute is a “Leader”

Anil Dash

The report recognizes Fastly as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023.

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Preventing outages with resilient architectures

Laura Thomson, Inés Sombra, + 1 more

Fastly’s resilient architecture principles prevent outages, mitigate severity, and deliver on our availability promises without compromising performance.

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Fastly is faster at time to first byte. It makes a difference.

Lucas Olslund

Fastly is 43% faster to first byte (TTFB) than Akamai CDN, and 32% faster than other CDNs, and it’s representative of overall gains in LCP and performance.

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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).

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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

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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.

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Regex in retrograde

Kelly Shortridge

If we want to outmaneuver attackers, then we must progress beyond regex into a more modern era of detection.

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Security

Community Spotlight: Una Thompson is Making the Fediverse More Manageable with Jortage

Hannah Aubry

Jortage is a communal project that provides object storage and hosting and deduplicates object storage for pool members, reducing everyone's overall storage costs. Learn how they use Fastly to keep costs low and make the Fediverse faster and more engaging.

Culture
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Join Fastly at RSA Conference 2023

Julie Rockett

The 2023 RSA Conference is around the corner. Come visit the Fastly booth and join us for exciting presentations and giveaways.

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Three industry developments to track at NAB 2023

John Agger

Here are three big media & entertainment industry developments to follow at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2023.

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Streaming

Filter PNGs for Acropalypse using Compute

Andrew Betts

The Acropalypse put improperly cropped images (and privacy issues) all over the internet. Here’s how Fastly’s Compute could help you clean them up.

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Compute

Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.2

Simon Wistow

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.

DevOps
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Healthcare Under DDoS Attack: Solutions | Fastly

Akil Muralidaharan

Here’s everything you need to know to secure your organization against DDoS attacks like those hitting the US healthcare system by the KillNet hacking group.

Security
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Command Injection CVE-2021-25296: A Deep Dive

Fastly Security Research Team, Matthew Mathur

NagiosXI versions 5.5.6 to 5.7.5 are vulnerable to three different instances of command injection.

Security
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Delivering Super Bowl for more than a decade -- and breaking records in the process

John Agger

2023 marks the 11th year of Fastly’s involvement in the Super Bowl. Back in 2013, we secured dedicated bandwidth to online businesses advertising throughout the game. However, since 2018 Fastly has been actively involved in delivering the live Super Bowl stream from broadcasters to millions of online viewers around the globe.

Streaming
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Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.1

Simon Wistow

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.

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Examining Chrome's TLS ClientHello Permutation | Fastly

Jonathan Foote, Arun Kumar, + 2 more

On January 20th, Chrome shipped an update that changed the profile of one of the most popular TLS client fingerprinting algorithms, JA3. In this short blog post we’ll describe the change and our observations across Fastly's network.

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Security

Streaming Continued to Grow in 2022, With Some Surprises

John Agger

Here are the main trends (and a few surprises) Fastly encountered in streaming in 2022, and what we expect in the future.

Streaming
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What's Next in Cybersecurity for 2023 | Fastly

Andrew Peterson

Cybersecurity continued to be a hot topic this year. From cloud adoption to automation, here are four security industry trends to expect in 2023.

Security
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Survey: 73% Rise in Cybersecurity Spend by 2023 | Fastly

Sean Leach

Fastly is excited to share the findings of a cybersecurity survey of IT and security leaders in a new report called, “Fighting fire with fire: Cybersecurity strategies are suffering as a result of complexity.”

Security
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