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Fastly named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Edge Delivery Services 2024

Simon Wistow

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.

Edge network
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Speeding up JavaScript on Compute

Chris Fallin

Discover how Fastly enhances JavaScript performance with our advanced compiler optimizations, achieving a remarkable 3x speedup for developers.

Compute
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It’s free, instant, and yours! Fastly’s free developer accounts are here

Simon Wistow

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.

CDN & Delivery
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Build a “For You” recommendation page in an hour with Fastly

Kailan Blanks, Andrew Betts

On this episode of Fastly Developers Live, we discuss the importance of curating a personalized "For You" page using Fastly.

CDN & Delivery
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WASI 0.2: Unlocking WebAssembly’s Promise Outside the Browser

Tyler McMullen, Luke Wagner

The WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) Subgroup recently reached a significant milestone by voting to launch WASI 0.2, also known as WASI Preview 2.

Industry insights
WebAssembly

A new level of security called for by the White House and Office of the National Cyber Director

Anil Dash, Luke Wagner

The White House and Office of the National Cyber Director called for the adoption of memory safe languages, and we see a way for existing code be more memory safe as well.

Security
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Announcing standard Go support for Fastly Compute

Jaskirat Singh Randhawa

Fastly now offers support for the standard Go compiler for the Go SDK v1 on Fastly Compute. Developers can now unlock more possibilities for app development.

Product
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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

Fast Forward: Let’s build the good internet together

Artur Bergman, Hannah Aubry

We believe in an internet that is free, open, and safe for all. And we believe the only way to get there is if we all build and nurture it. Together.

DevOps
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Compute: Go support has arrived!

Mark McDonnell

Fastly’s Compute platform enables customers to build high scale, globally distributed applications and execute code at the edge using popular languages such as Rust and JavaScript. Now you can use Go too!

WebAssembly

OpenTelemetry Part 3: Using OpenTelemetry in Compute

Katsuyuki Omuro

Our first OpenTelemetry library for Compute is now available, enabling your Compute application to generate spec-compliant traces, providing deeper insights about its performance and resources. In this post I'll show you how easy it is to add this support to an edge application.

DevOps
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Five ways to make your CDN work harder for you

Chris Buckley, John Agger

There are many more well-documented reasons to make a CDN part of your distribution. In this blog post we examine some lesser-known rationales to help you scale and improve your business.

Streaming
WebAssembly

Serverless Swift with Compute@Edge by Andrew Barba | Fastly

Andrew Betts, Hannah Aubry

Recently Andrew Barba, the engineer behind Swift Cloud, released a highly performant and fully featured Swift SDK for our Compute platform. And he built the initial release in just four days, to boot! Understandably impressed, we sat down with Andrew to learn about his goals and build process for the project.

Customers
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The Guardian: Our day hacking with Compute

Oliver Barnwell

Our customers at the Guardian recently participated in an internal hack day with Compute to find creative solutions to business problems with the hands-on support of our team. Oliver Barnwell, a Full Stack Developer at the Guardian, walked us through the process of building his winning hackathon project on Compute in this guest post.

Customers
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Fastly & Fauna aid Climatiq's data-driven climate decisions w/ distributed & serverless tech | Fastly

Emily Friedberg

Climatiq’s mission is to drive climate action through data and insight. In this blog post, we share how choosing Fauna as their database and Fastly’s Compute@Edge for their compute layer enabled Climatiq to achieve climate efficiency with their own architectures, and accelerate their ability to get their API in the hands of users.

WebAssembly
Compute

Meet the next iteration of JavaScript on Compute

Christine Cole

Today we’re happy to announce that we’ve made several improvements to Compute that substantially boost the performance of the JavaScript runtime, as well as the overall developer experience on the platform.

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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Easier edge building with Fastly and Glitch | Fastly

Simon Wistow

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.

WebAssembly
Compute

Cloud Deploy simplifies Compute@Edge projects | Fastly

Kailan Blanks

We’re introducing Cloud Deploy, a wizard that helps you start building on Compute by deploying and customizing templates, and sets you up with an automated deployment workflow and best development practices.

DevOps
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30 Years of Web: Future-Ready Apps

Jana Iyengar

Many websites today are really applications, and we should be building them as such. To do that, we need application architectures and networks that are capable of supporting fast, secure, and scalable user experiences. We must embrace a more dynamic mindset in how we approach web development and consider the tools we need to get there.

Industry insights
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