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Simon Wistow

VP Strategic Initiatives, Fastly

Simon is a co-founder at Fastly, where he helps lead strategic initiatives. Before helping found Fastly, Simon was a senior search engineer at Yahoo! Europe, LiveJournal, SixApart, Scribd, and then at social help desk company Zendesk. In a past life, he worked on R&D for a leading VFX Company doing films like the Harry Potter series, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, Sunshine, and Wallace and Gromit. At one point he worked as a cowboy in Australia. Mostly because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Find him on Mastodon: @simonwistow@hachyderm.io

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  • How our solid-state drives result in cost savings for customers

    Simon Wistow

    Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are semiconductor-based storage devices that save persistent data by using NAND flash memory. See how Fastly manages caches with SSDs and how you can save.

    Performance
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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.

    Engineering
    Compute

  • Announcing Altitude NYC

    Simon Wistow

    Altitude NYC brings a group of smart people together to solve complex problems in cloud infrastructure, security, DevOps, and more. You’ll hear from industry leaders like The New York Times, Spotify, Vogue, and Nordstromrack.com | HauteLook, and leave with real-world implementations you can take back to your team.

    Customers

  • Introducing the Fastly savings calculator

    Simon Wistow

    Our CDN can cache more content than traditional solutions (static as well as rapidly changing, “event-driven” content), offloading traffic that would otherwise go to origin, allowing our customers to save on infrastructure costs. But just how big are these savings? To help answer this question at a glance, we recently launched our savings calculator, which offers quick insight into the savings you can expect as a result of improved cache hit ratios.

    Performance

  • Extended Technical Trainings at Altitude San Francisco

    Simon Wistow

    [Join us June 28-29](https://www.fastly.com/altitude) for Altitude San Francisco, our annual west coast summit. This year, we’ve added a full day of extended technical trainings on June 28, followed by keynotes and main sessions on June 29. Come explore the future of edge delivery, infrastructure, and enforcement.

    Customers

  • Demystifying the cloud

    Simon Wistow

    Like it or not, the cloud is here to stay. Although 81% of executives surveyed experience cloud FOMO (“fear of missing out”), it’s not peer pressure alone that’s driving cloud adoption; the cloud offers undeniable benefits to your business: boosting engagement with your customers, cutting costs, and empowering innovation. In this post, we’ll take a look at the different methodologies of cloud computing, cutting through the noise to offer our recommendation and vision for what’s ahead.

    Industry insights

  • Improved control + security with real-time logging

    Simon Wistow

    We know that our customers value visibility and control — actionable insight into what’s going on across your digital services, and the flexibility to make changes when necessary. Real-time logging lets you see what’s happening with your traffic, empowering you to make decisions and changes on the fly. In this post, we’ll share our latest logging updates — which allow for improved formatting and control, new and improved logging endpoint integrations, and enhanced security — and how to get started.

  • 3 Common logging challenges

    Simon Wistow

    Effective logging requires thoughtful planning and consistent tuning and maintenance. Here are three of the biggest challenges of logging.

  • 7 business uses for logging

    Simon Wistow

    To create effective logs, you first need to consider what you’re trying to achieve in capturing and maintaining logs. If you don't begin with a clear business goal and proactively plan your logging strategy, you take the risk that you’ll find yourself either without the data you need at a critical moment, or overloaded with extraneous information. Here are 7 ways you can use logs.

  • Did you see that? Monitoring vs observability

    Simon Wistow

    You monitor distributed systems and log data, but what good does it do if you can't observe an actual problem when there is an issue? The reality is, you're drowning in log data and monitoring only gives you a high-level overview of a problem after it’s occurred. Enter observability.

  • Adobe boosts performance and MTTR with Epsagon and Fastly logs | Fastly

    Simon Wistow

    Working together, Epsagon and Adobe’s Project Helix team built a very cool integration that uses clever parsing of Fastly VCL to generate tracing statements showing what variables have been created, updated, or deleted at every stage of a request and response in our platform.

    Product
    Observability

  • 3 Benefits CDN's Bring to Startups

    Simon Wistow

    A modern CDN can help improve SEO rankings, make it easier to deliver personalized content, and secure your sites and apps — three keys to a startup’s success.

    Performance
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  • Company culture in a hybrid work environment

    Simon Wistow

    In this video from Web Summit 2021, we discuss how you build and ensure your company culture when you have some team members in person and some at home.

    Culture

  • 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

  • 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
    + 3 more

  • 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.

    Industry insights
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  • 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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  • 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
    + 7 more

  • 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
    + 3 more