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CDN & Delivery

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  • How Fastly and Yottaa Transform Site Performance with Early Hints

    Ajay Bharadwaj, Terri Allegretto

    Early Hints for Compute is now generally available, dramatically improving website performance and user experience by preloading essential resources.

    Compute
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  • Outages, Attacks, and a Need for Resilience

    Austin Spires

    Cloud outages are a stark reminder of our digital economy's fragility. Learn how Fastly mitigated a major traffic failover and concurrent DDoS attacks with zero disruption.

    CDN & Delivery
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    Fastly's resilient architecture helps prevent outages and mitigate severity

  • Meet Image Optimizer in Compute: Flexible Image Workflows at the Edge

    James Sherry

    Fastly’s Image Optimizer is now available in Compute, letting developers build flexible, programmable image optimization workflows at the edge with full control and scale.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 2 more

  • Optimizing your multi-CDN infrastructure to improve performance

    Natalie Griffeth

    Learn how a multi-CDN infrastructure can, and should be, optimized for performance. Get tips from Fastly on considerations to evaluate against your current content delivery strategy.

    CDN & Delivery
    Performance

  • Optimizing Web Performance: Unpacking Fastly’s Intelligent Compression Defaults

    Stephen Stierer, Anjan Srinivas

    Optimize web performance with Fastly's intelligent compression defaults. Learn how Gzip and Brotli shrink payload sizes, reduce costs, and speed up your site.

    CDN & Delivery
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  • Resilience by Design: Lessons in Multi-Cloud Readiness

    Austin Spires

    Stay online when it matters most. Learn how Fastly's multi-cloud and edge strategies protect against outages, keeping your systems fast and reliable.

    CDN & Delivery
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    Prepare for peaks

  • A Smarter ACME Challenge for a Multi-CDN World

    Shiloh Heurich

    Optimize your multi-CDN setup with Fastly's new dns-account-01 ACME challenge. Eliminate label collisions and enhance certificate management.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 3 more

  • How to Tame Varnish Memory Usage Safely

    Daniel Axtens

    How Fastly turned a shelved Varnish idea into 25% fewer memory writes and real system-wide gains.

    CDN & Delivery
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  • Design for Chaos: Fastly’s Principles of Fault Isolation and Graceful Degradation

    Brian Haberman

    Learn how Fastly builds a resilient CDN through fault isolation & graceful degradation. Discover our principles for minimizing disruption & ensuring continuous service.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 4 more

  • Top CDN Providers for 5G in 2026

    Natalie Griffeth

    Compare top CDN providers for 5G performance and learn how edge compute, low latency, and modern protocols enable streaming, gaming, IoT, and immersive experience

    CDN & Delivery

  • Fastly’s Pillars of Resilience: Building a More Robust Internet

    Brian Haberman

    Discover Fastly's Pillars of Resilience: unwavering availability, minimized latency, and disruption resistance for a robust internet experience with our global network.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 4 more

  • Publish your website without a host

    Sue Smith

    Deploy static sites to Fastly Compute directly from your browser or IDE. Publish blogs, apps, and websites at the edge without hosting.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 3 more

  • Teach Your robots.txt a New Trick (for AI)

    Brooks Cunningham, Fastly Enterprise Solution Architects

    Control how AI bots like Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended use your website content for training. Update your robots.txt file with simple Disallow rules.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 3 more

  • Control and Monetize Your Content with the RSL Standard

    Simon Wistow

    AI crawlers are scraping the web, often ignoring rules and costing publishers resources. The new RSL Standard lets you block, allow, or even charge AI for access to your content. Here’s how it works.

    CDN & Delivery
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  • Sustainability dashboard: Shine a light on your digital carbon footprint

    Eoghan Kelly

    Fastly's Sustainability dashboard provides instant access to electricity-related Scope 2 & 3 emissions data. Understand and optimize your digital carbon footprint with ease.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 3 more

  • Powering PyPI with Advanced Traffic Engineering

    Joe Williams, Stephen Strowes

    PyPI serves millions daily. See how Fastly’s Individual Provider Anycast unlocks faster, smarter routing for Python’s package index.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 4 more

  • Best content delivery networks for bot management

    Natalie Griffeth

    Compare the best content delivery networks for bot management. Learn how CDNs stop bad bots at the edge using behavioral analysis, ML, and real-time controls.

    CDN & Delivery

  • Request Collapsing Demystified

    Stephen Crim

    Boost website performance with request collapsing! Learn how it improves efficiency, reduces origin load, and optimizes caching for a snappy user experience.

    Performance
    + 2 more
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  • Trust at Scale with Fastly Image Optimizer and C2PA

    James Sherry

    Fastly Image Optimizer now supports C2PA, enabling verifiable content authenticity. Combat misinformation and build trust with secure image provenance at scale.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 2 more

  • Fastly's Resilience to HTTP/1.1 Desynchronization Attacks

    Frederik Deweerdt, Kazuho Oku, + 2 more

    Discover why Fastly's architecture protects against HTTP/1.1 desynchronization attacks, unlike other CDNs. Protect your applications with Fastly's secure platform.

    Security
    + 4 more