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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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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

Dynamic Backends help you easily scale across multiple origin backends

Ajay Bharadwaj

Announcing Dynamic Backends, a way for Fastly customers to provide a flexible mechanism for updating the list of acceptable targets and connecting to them at runtime.

Compute
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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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Introducing the Redesigned Fastly Status Page

Corben Henry

The Fastly status page is unveiling a new design and enhanced functionality, including information on more products, as well as improved preferences on customer view, subscriptions, and notifications.

Product
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Interview with HUMAN CEO Tamer Hassan

Lakshmi Sharma

Fastly announced a reseller partnership with HUMAN Security, Inc. to better safeguard enterprises and internet platforms from sophisticated bot attacks and fraud. We sat down with HUMAN CEO and Co-founder Tamer Hassan to learn more about bots, and what HUMAN is doing to protect its customers from the threat.

Platform
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Live sports delivery challenges conquered | Fastly

John Agger

With zero tolerance for rebuffering and streams that scale from zero to massive in no time, the stakes are unusually high, making live sport the most demanding content type to deliver, requiring both flexibility and resiliency.

Platform
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Get App & Infrastructure Visibility with Inspectors | Fastly

Dom Soegono, Dom Fee

We are excited to launch two new great visibility products into general availability - Origin and Domain Inspector! Observe origin performance or domain traffic with ease! Find out more in this blog post announcement.

Platform

Four reasons you should try Fastly’s Image Optimizer

James Sherry

Major brands with strong web presences like The Guardian and Big Cartel rely on Image Optimizer to serve pixel-perfect images on the fly. Here are four reasons why you should try it out too.

Platform
Product

Fastly product design: Creating enterprise experiences | Fastly

Jennifer Fleming

At Fastly, we design for a delightful enterprise experience by looking deeply at customer needs. In this post, our Director of Product Experience shares some of the similarities and differences between B2C and B2B design she’s discovered in her journey of becoming an enterprise design lead, and how we implement human-centric design at Fastly.

Product
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Fastly + Fanout: real-time messaging and edge computing combined | Fastly

Simon Wistow

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.

Company news
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Capacity planning and network expansion in a remote-first world

Catharine Strauss

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how Fastly's approach to managing our network capacity, supply chain, and human capital allows us to observe, respond, and adapt to rapidly changing conditions on our globally distributed network.

Performance
Platform

Exercising Caution As COVID-19 Situation Evolves

Joshua Bixby

Fastly’s mission is to build a trustworthy internet where good can thrive. Given that the situation related to COVID-19 is rapidly evolving, we believe an abundance of caution is prudent, and are implementing several precautionary measures to help minimize the risk of COVID-19 to our employees, our customers, and the communities in which we participate.

Platform

Building Edge: 40 POPs, 15 Tbps Capacity | Fastly

Tom Daly

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added a collection of new POPs to the Fastly global network. Since our last update, we’ve deployed additional US POPs in Chicago, Newark, Ashburn, and Los Angeles, plus a brand-new location in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Fastly’s global network now exceeds 15 Tbps of connected internet capacity, and we will continue to scale alongside our rapidly growing customer base.

Performance
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Fastly's POPs in Minneapolis, Montreal, and Madrid

Tom Daly

We’re pleased to announce an alliteration of new POPs to the Fastly network: Minneapolis, Montreal, and Madrid. We’ve deployed these POPs to expand our reach throughout the Central United States, Canada, and southwestern Europe.

Performance
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Why having more POPs isn’t always better

Simon Wistow

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.

Performance
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