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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.

    Security

  • The importance of performance monitoring

    Mehdi Daoudi

    Your site's performance needs to be monitored closely, but once you start your monitoring initiative, you might find yourself drowning in an endless wave of information. This can make it difficult for you to get insight into your online systems. Here are some simple steps for performance monitoring that will produce easy-to-interpret, actionable data.

    Performance

  • Raising $75 million to fund global expansion

    Artur Bergman

    We’ve raised $75 million in Series D funding led by Iconiq Capital, with new contributions from existing investors Amplify Partners, August Capital, Battery Ventures, IDG Ventures, and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

  • Extending your application to the edge with Fastly

    Hooman Beheshti

    We often say that Fastly can easily become an extension of your app — there are three major components that make this possible: caching, control, and visibility.

    Performance
    Compute

  • Expanding our presence in Japan: Partnership and a new POP

    Artur Bergman

    This week, I’m in Tokyo to attend SoftBank World 2015. Today I had the honor of sharing the stage with Ken Miyauchi, President & CEO of SoftBank Corp., to make a few announcements about Fastly’s expanding presence in Japan.

  • How Fastly builds POPs

    Blake Crosby

    Building a new point of presence (POP) from scratch involves all of the engineering groups within Fastly. Our data center infrastructure (DCI) team spearheads and coordinates the POP build from hardware procurement to putting the POP into production and serving traffic.

    Performance
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  • OSCON 2015 takeaways: open source innovation, caching strategies & more | Fastly

    Elaine Greenberg

    O'Reilly’s Open Source Convention (OSCON) is always exciting. It’s easy to feel the collaborative, open source spirit throughout the conference and the events surrounding it. This year, our team traveled to Portland, Oregon to talk shop about all things web performance.

  • How to fuzz a server with American Fuzzy Lop

    Jonathan Foote

    In this blog post, I'll describe how to use AFL's experimental persistent mode to blow the doors off of a server without having to make major modifications to the server's codebase. I've used this technique at Fastly to expand testing in some of the servers that we rely on and others that we are experimenting with.

    Security

  • The technology that empowers real-time journalism

    Anna MacLachlan

    We’re more engaged online than ever before, especially when it comes to consuming news. If you work with online media brands, you’re well aware that the way readers engage with news events is changing.

    Performance
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  • Caching with CORS

    Rogier Mulhuijzen

    Before diving into CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing), I need to mention JSONP, which is the other solution to getting data from a different “Origin.” In Using ESI, Part 2: Leveraging VCL and ESI to Use JSONP, Simon explains what JSONP is, and how to cache it with Fastly, using one Fastly specific feature, req.topurl. Now, with Varnish 4.1, req.top.url (note the extra period) is available, and it allows you to do the same thing with vanilla Varnish.

    Performance
    Engineering

  • Fastly Engineers Discuss Coding Bootcamps | Fastly

    Anna MacLachlan

    It’s difficult to change course mid-career and educate yourself on a new subject after college has ended. For those entering the field of engineering, it often means taking coding classes or taking part in a coding bootcamp, such as those offered at App Academy, General Assembly, Hackbright Academy, and Hack Reactor.

    Engineering
    Culture

  • Recap of Altitude 2015, Fastly’s first customer summit

    Hannah Levy

    Last week, we hosted our first customer summit, Altitude 2015, at the SFJAZZ Center. Our goal was to bring together our customers and the people who build our products to discuss web performance, Varnish, and the future of Fastly.

    Customers

  • Announcing Window Snyder as CSO

    Artur Bergman

    Today, I’m happy to announce that Window Snyder has joined our executive team as Chief Security Officer. Window was formerly a security and privacy strategist at Apple as well as security chief at Mozilla Corporation. At Fastly, she’ll help manage our expanding security offerings through our global edge infrastructure platform.

  • Why Marketers Should Prioritize Performance

    Anna MacLachlan, Hannah Levy

    You may not know that the software your developers use can affect the success of your marketing activities. It’s within both teams’ interests to collaborate to ensure good performance.

    Performance
    Compute

  • Q&A with Miles Ward, Google Cloud Solutions Head | Fastly

    Lee Chen

    We had the opportunity to sit down with Miles Ward and chat about trends in the cloud industry, working with Fastly, and how Google Cloud Platform really sets itself apart.

    Engineering

  • Defining innovation capacity, part 2: Flexibility capacity

    Lee Chen

    I believe that inflexible technology can promote an aversion to innovation. When building a stack, cost and performance are traditionally prioritized. That makes sense for immediate needs, but companies are finding that the flexibility of that stack matters in the long run.

  • Innovation Capacity Defined: Tech Stack Values | Fastly

    Lee Chen

    Today's ideas can become tomorrow's indispensable service. This doesn't happen by magic. It takes a toolbox designed for innovative work.

  • The VCL Cookie Monster

    Rogier Mulhuijzen

    This month's tip is more a theoretical exercise than anything else, just to show the power of VCL, and to explain a few regular expressions. I'm going to discuss VCL that deletes cookies.

    Engineering

  • FREAK does not affect Fastly services

    Daniel McCarney

    Fastly is not vulnerable to Logjam — we only offer the more secure Elliptic Curve variant of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange (ECDHE), and the RSA key exchange mechanism for clients that don’t support ECDHE. Since Fastly does not offer any export grade ciphersuite options — and we do not offer the Diffie-Hellman key exchange mechanism — our services are not affected.

    Security

  • Fastly Cloud Accelerator to Connect with GCP | Fastly

    Lee Chen

    In November 2014, we announced Fastly’s Cloud Accelerator, a collaboration with Google Cloud Platform that combines the power of Google’s infrastructure with the speed and flexibility of our real-time content delivery network. We're seeing more of our customers leverage cost-effective cloud services to build scalable infrastructure, and so today we're excited to announce that we're expanding our collaboration with Google Cloud Platform.

    Product
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