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We now support Log Streaming for Google Cloud Storage
Simon Wistow
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.
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Recap of the Fastly Security Speaker Series
Window Snyder
On February 25, we hosted 50+ security researchers and engineers from the Bay Area and beyond in our San Francisco office for the first event in the Fastly Security Speaker Series. This event brought together security engineers and researchers to examine new perspectives around important security topics.
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Lean Threat Intelligence, Part 1: The plan
Zack Allen
Fastly Security Researcher Zack Allen discusses how you can draw from open source resources to build a lean and powerful Threat Intelligence plan for your organization.
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Introducing Fastly Security Advisories
Window Snyder
Today we’re announcing Fastly Security Advisories. Fastly will publish these to address security concerns that either trigger customer interest or require customer action to address.
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Introducing Fastly’s Magento 1 Extension
Björn Kraus, Emily Friedberg
Magento merchants can now seamlessly enjoy the speed and flexibility of our Varnish-based CDN platform from within their Magento interface with zero code changes required.
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Introducing the Fastly Security Speaker Series
Window Snyder
Today we’re announcing the Fastly Security Speaker Series, an informal event for bringing together researchers and engineers to share research, tools, and ideas. Fastly will bring some of the most innovative and thoughtful security researchers to Fastly headquarters in San Francisco to share their work. Our first event is February 25th, and our first two speakers are Alex Pinto and Rolf Rolles.
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The Beyoncé Drop (and other Super Bowl phenomena)
Anna MacLachlan
Last Sunday over 111.9 million viewers tuned in for the Super Bowl. As a CDN, we’re in a unique position — we help companies handle the impact of successful Super Bowl ads, and monitor the results in real time. We thought it might be interesting to share some of the traffic patterns we noticed during the big game.
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Introducing MPEG-DASH support: enhancing Video on Demand
Ashok Lalwani
We’re proud to announce support for MPEG-DASH streaming format packaging. This feature lets you simplify the delivery of video content to your end users and reduce the operational costs associated with providing an exceptional user experience.
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Update to our TLS 1.0 and 1.1 deprecation plan
Sean Leach
Last October, we announced our deprecation plan for TLS 1.0 and 1.1. The PCI Security Standards has since updated their guidance, and we are revising our deprecation schedule accordingly.
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Introducing fastly2git: version change visualization
Leon Brocard
Sales Engineer Léon Brocard created fastly2git, a Git repository for Fastly service changes, making it easy for you to see differences between versions. In this post, Léon discusses how fastly2git works, and how it can help you continue building great services on Fastly.
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Why Speed Matters with Bandwidth
Artur Bergman
We launched Fastly in July 2011 with seven employees and a mission to make web experiences faster. Four years later, Fastly has 240 employees (and growing), five offices (including a newly opened office in Denver), 26 global points of presence (POPs), and powers tens of thousands of websites.
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Introducing our open source app training
Kami Richey
Customer Support Engineer Kami Richey built an application for testing Fastly. In this post, she walks you through setting up your own test application and using Fastly’s UI to explore commonly used features first hand.
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Five ways to optimize your Drupal site
Neerav Mehta
Neerav Mehta, founder & CEO of Red Crackle, walks us through how to optimize your Drupal site.
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Fastly's plan for plan for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 deprecation
Sean Leach
The PCI DSS 3.1 standard has changed. In order to keep you up-to-date and secure online, we’re announcing our plan for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 deprecation.
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How to use Fastly + Logentries for insight into log data
Anna MacLachlan
Read our Q&A with Logentries’ Director of Product Marketing, Matt Kiernan, and learn how to use Fastly + Logentries for immediate insight into log data.
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Engineering a more resilient internet
Maarten Van Horenbeeck
Fastly Director of Security Engineering Maarten Van Horenbeeck shares his experiences of how the security community can protect the “global commons” that the internet has become.
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How Fastly’s Heroku add-on helps improve experiences
Anna MacLachlan
In this Q&A, Fastly’s Michael May and Heroku’s Peter Cho discuss the benefits of Fastly’s Heroku add-on and why it’s important for enterprises to focus on both developer and customer experiences.
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Edge Dictionaries for Faster Decision Making | Fastly
Jason Evans
We’re always seeking ways to give our customers more control at the edge. With this in mind, we’re excited to announce Edge Dictionaries, which give you the ability to create readable key/value pairs using our API.
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Restricting access to content
Vladimir Vuksan
In this blog post, Vladimir Vuksan outlines three common methods you can use for blocking or limiting access to content with Fastly.
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GitHub’s Joe Williams discusses mitigating security threats
Anna MacLachlan
At Fastly Altitude 2015, Joe Williams, a computer operator at GitHub, gave a talk on mitigating security threats (like DDoS attacks) with a CDN. This post is an overview of his talk, with full video and slides included.
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