Get more powerful websites and applications with Fastly’s edge cloud platform. We help places like Reddit, Epic Games, the NYT, and GitHub do so every day.
We identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions across our POPs globally and have disabled that configuration. Our global network is coming back online. Continued status is available at
@foxtrotluna
We have a CDN, offer many of the same services, and do not conduct business with companies who promote violence or hate:
Plus, if the project you’re working on is open source, we may be able to help for free:
We are happy to announce support for
#WebSockets
on Delivery and Compute services in Limited Availability!
This has been a long requested feature and we are pleased to bring this support to the world's fastest edge network. ⚡️
How do we handle capacity planning and network expansion as a fully-remote team?
Proactive analysis 📈
Detailed documentation 📝
Remote hands 🙌
Local partners 👩💻👨🔧
Security at every step 🔒
Here's a behind-the-screens look at how we grow our network:
Today, we’re welcoming the
@Glitch
team and community to
#Fastly
.
Together, we believe in giving all developers, regardless of their background or experience, the tools to build performative, secure, and scalable apps.
Find out what’s next for us:
Fastly is committed to creating a supportive and trustworthy relationship with our customers. Review the Top 8 Ways We Support our Next-Gen WAF Customers 👇
#EnterpriseSecurity
#WAAP
#WAF
Compute
@Edge
is now available for all 🎉
Get started now and claim your free credits to explore the platform commitment-free.
Learn more in our latest blog post:
“Good enough” won’t get us where we need to go.
To build modern websites, we need to start treating them like applications, and embrace a more dynamic mindset in how we approach web development.
🎉It's here! 🎉Meet Lucet, our latest open-source project — designed to take WebAssembly beyond the browser + build a platform for faster, safer execution on Fastly’s edge cloud.
It’s no surprise that 90% of organizations think false positives from their traditional web app and API security tools are an issue.
According to new research we conducted with
@esg_global
, web and API security has reached a tipping point:
Thirty years ago, no one could have imagined how big the web would be and what we would need it to do.
It’s time we rethink the way we build and secure it to meet the needs of the next 30 years.
TBH, it’s time to evolve how we think and talk about security.
Welcome to Fastly’s
#DeptOfKnow
Live.
Hosted by
@swagitda_
& Bea Hughes. Featuring the industry’s brightest minds. Dig into today’s most fascinating topics.
Register:
#IYKYK
You aren't the only one who's ready for a new way of doing things.
Tooling fatigue and false positives are impeding companies’ ability to maintain adequate security.
Learn more:
You’re not the only one using 10+ security tools — traditional web app and API tools were not built with the modern, decentralized enterprise in mind.
Learn why yesterday’s tools no longer meet today's needs in this report by
#Fastly
and
@esg_global
:
75% of companies spend equal or more time on false positives as actual attacks.
Learn why organizations across industries are fed up with traditional web app and API security tools in this report from
#Fastly
and
@esg_global
:
We're combining the power of
@GCPcloud
with the speed and flexibility of our edge cloud platform.
Learn how our unique partnership allows developers to build, test, and deploy applications in a scalable, reliable cloud environment
🌥
Join us &
@MuxHQ
at
#IBC2019
for a happy hour 4-6pm tomorrow (9/15)! Swing by booth C02 in Hall 14 to chat about how to equip your video ops teams w/ best practices for preventing delivery failures, and quickly recovering from them if they occur.
Two years ago, we launched Media Shield 🛡️to optimize
#multiCDN
deployments while reducing total cost of ownership of video
#streaming
. Learn more about how you can reduce origin traffic & give your streaming performance a boost:
#IBC2019
❌Myth: Adhering to security best practices will slow down your DevOps practice.
✅Truth: The right solutions don't just protect your systems — they so do without slowing you down.
Learn how:
“Fastly helped us improve page load speed by up to 900%, making now one of the fastest e-commerce platforms in the UK.” - Tom Hayman, Platform Engineering Lead at
@DunelmUK
Proving you’re not a robot by selecting images and typing out character strings is over.
Private Access Tokens are an alternative to CAPTCHAs that respect your privacy and data security.
Built with our friends at
@Apple
,
@Google
, &
@Cloudflare
:
🛰 Broadband went where no broadband had gone before
🥾 Certificate transparency gave impersonators the boot
🌅
#WebAssembly
opened the door for a new era of programming
Check out 2019's internet infrastructure changes in our year-in-review.
Integrated observability + your streaming stack = a top-notch viewing experience 🌟Our demo w/
@wowzamedia
at
#IBC2019
shows how a single pane of glass to monitor & identify issues enables speedy reactions during live broadcasts. More in our latest blog:
Fastly was named a Leader in
@forrester
's New Wave: Edge Development Platforms report by
@jhammond
.
Fastly’s Compute
@Edge
was the only vendor to receive a differentiated rating in the security criterion.
🔗
Head of strategic partnerships
@lchen
features the magic of integrated monitoring, logging & tracing during live streaming events in his latest blog. 🖥️
See it in action at
#IBC2019
- find us at the
@wowzamedia
@Microsoft
&
@Google
booths:
As our needs and behaviors change, so too should the internet. We're bringing you before-and-after stories of innovations that fundamentally bettered the web for us all.
Part 2: HTTP-based adaptive bitrate streaming
Our customers have built to new heights using our Compute
@Edge
platform. Now we want to help you do the same.
Try our innovative approach to serverless architecture with our limited offer — $100k a month in credit for 9 months + configuration support 👉
An exciting day for
#FSLY
! 🎉 As we embark on this new chapter, we’re committed to creating a trustworthy internet where good thrives. We are honored to be accompanied on this journey by the best of the web.
Thank you for your trust in us.
📣Calling all developers 📣Meet Compute
@Edge
- our new language-agnostic compute environment.
Our CTO
@tbmcmullen
lifts the veil on the next evolution of our edge computing capabilities, designed to give you the power (& speed) you've been looking for 💪
If you're spending all your time correlating data and sifting through false positives, you are not alone.
We believe a new approach to web app and API security is needed 👇
How we build the internet — and everything upon it — matters.
We're bringing you stories of innovations that allowed the web to dynamically adapt to our needs and laid a more solid foundation for the future.
Part 1: Zero-trust networking
Today, Fastly has completed the acquisition of
@SignalSciences
.
We can now further our shared vision of building next-generation apps and websites, unlocking all-new possibilities as we shape the future of the web, together:
Let’s face it: Misinformation might get worse before it gets better.
We believe that technology can combat it, so we're contributing to the
@C2PA_org
.
The foundations of the web were designed before we truly understood its potential. This means continuous renovations are necessary for the web to support our modern needs.
We're sharing how it started vs. how it's going in this series on internet innovations.
Part 3: The cloud
Fastly serves all RubyGems.
In 2017 thus far:
New gems: 10,918
New gem versions: 91.949
Gem downloads: 1,637,475,670
Gem total bandwidth: 484 TB
✨❤️
#FastlyHeartsOSS
Dynamically adapting to the needs of its users is, and will always be, a core property of the modern internet. We’re exploring some of the tech that has evolved the web to better serve us.
Part 4: Content delivery networks (CDNs)
Today, we celebrate with Fastlyans across the globe. Your hard work and dedication to a more trustworthy web is what fuels Fastly innovation every day. You are loved - Here’s to you!
#FSLY
Fastly +
@Fanout
. It’s happening. ⚡️
We’re thrilled to be adding Fanout’s best-of-the-web platform for building and scaling real-time APIs to Compute
@Edge
.
Say hello to transport-agnostic, real-time development for near-instant digital experiences:
Page load speed will be added to
@Google
's Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor starting next year.
To find out if the web is ready,
@Sistrix
analyzed 18.5 million domains:
Fastly hosts PyPi. 🐍
1TB of modules, more than 477GB of which was uploaded in 2017. One of the first OSS projects we supported.
✨❤️
#FastlyHeartsOSS
+ Thanks
@dstufft
!
Today, the US
#Election2020
was called in favor of
@JoeBiden
&
@KamalaHarris
🇺🇸 here’s what happened to internet traffic following the announcement.
📈 198% increase to US-based media sites
📈 173% increase to global media sites
📈 20% increase to global social media platforms
Fastly helps Hex, the package manager for the Erlang ecosystem.
This year, they saw:
2000 new packages.
11000 new package versions.
60% more package downloads than 2016.
Fastly has served 20,000GB and 560 million requests. ❤️✨
#FastlyHeartsOSS
@hexpm
#elixirlang
Our partner
@Okta
is integrating
#Fastly
's
@SignalSciences
portfolio into their identity management tools to protect users against Layer 7 threats such as account takeovers and API abuse.
Learn more 👇
Despite the efforts to erase LGBTQ people from federal civil rights protections, we proudly stand with our employees and other major businesses to reaffirm our commitment to ensure trans people
#WontBeErased
.
"If enterprises are going to protect the APIs and apps that are now so critical to their success, they need to start rethinking some parts of their security posture and addressing these gaps."
—
@seanleach
in
@thenewstack
Announcing our Q2 product updates and releases! Read on for more information about:
🌐 Network updates
🧭 DevHub
📍 Datadog logging endpoint LA
📑 Audit View
🔑 OTFP Azure Auth
💤 Round Robin Retirement
Fastly's new Observability Dashboard is a fresh visual take on your delivery, security, and compute data to help you:
✅ Be informed
✅ Investigate, and
✅ Take action
To improve the stability and performance of your Fastly services. Learn more:
Today Fastly turns 10. 🎉 And all we can say is... wow,
#TenYearsHappenedFastly
.
First up, we’re taking a look at how our web properties have evolved over the years 👇
With Fastly's new GIF to MP4 Image Optimizer feature,
@BuzzFeed
was able to condense its browser-freezing "100 Greatest Gifs of All Time" article from... 🥁🥁🥁
250 MB ➡️ 6 MB.
Check out this new feature, now in your Image Optimizer dashboard!
👉
Edge computing is changing the way companies serve their applications to customers — and it's creating new opportunities for large-scale video delivery.
Join us for an insider view into innovative video technologies at the edge.
👉
The idea of overhauling your stack for more unified security solutions may seem daunting.
But the payoff is worth it, and the way there isn’t as challenging as you might think. Learn how:
We’ve been recognized as the Summer 2020 Leader in Content Delivery Networks by
@G2dotcom
due to our innovative technology and customer-first approach.
Learn how we're different:
As of today, Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF is
@Arm
compatible 🎉
In fact, we’re the first and only Arm-compatible WAF, solidifying our leadership in deployment options among Web Application and API Protection solutions.
Learn more:
Access to safe and reliable internet for all is more critical than ever.
So we enabled HTTP/3 and QUIC, with build-in encryption and better performance, for all our customers — free:
With the introduction of Compute
@Edge
, we're providing a richer CPU model. WebAssembly, powered by Lucet, unlocks arbitrary code execution within each request.
This raises the immediate question: what would a richer model for memory, or state, look like?
When it comes to security, we want you to demand more. This is modern security:
✅Fight intent, not specific threats
✅There is no security without usability
✅Real-time attacks require real-time reactions
✅Dev, sec, or ops, think like an engineer
We're on a mission to banish fear-mongering (and boring events) from the sec industry with
#DeptofKnow
.
Care to join? Tell us why the sec convo needs to change in the comments & we'll select one answer to win a
@LastPass
gift card.
Keep those passwords unique, friends!
#IYNYK
Today, we’re announcing major enhancements to Compute
@Edge
:
✔️Streamlined CLI
✔️Terraform API support
✔️AssemblyScript support in beta
Read more about what’s new and what’s coming in this blog post from our CTO
@tbmcmullen
👇
Our mission is to build a more trustworthy internet, which means providing safe and scalable infrastructure to those on the frontlines of
#COVID19
🩺🎓📰⛑
That's why we've committed $50 million to nonprofits and open-source projects. Learn more:
The HTTP community has been busy modernizing the web’s protocol over the last decade.
Unfortunately, the way we define and use HTTP header fields hasn’t changed much since the beginning... But help is coming.
We're excited to announce the release of Precision Path — our new self-healing, fully automated, real-time fault detection and mitigation technology for all traffic and all customers on Fastly’s network.
Here's how it works 🛠
Security and IT professionals are wondering why their security tools have stopped working.
The application development process has become increasingly complex, but that's not the whole story.
@seanleach
explains:
We already miss
@BlackHatEvents
#BHUSA
...
...if you didn’t get to visit, we don’t want you to miss out on the fun!
✨We’ll randomly select 10 people who like & RT this post to receive a
#Fastly
RFID Card Protector✨
Subject to Official Rules — US only:
Today, we're announcing that Fastly employees all over the world will receive their local national election days off 🌎
Learn more about how we're enabling Fastly employees to vote:
Our vision for Compute
@Edge
is to enable you to build the way you want, in whatever language you like.
With the addition of
#AssemblyScript
(currently in beta) to the list of supported languages, we’re welcoming JavaScript devs onto the platform ❤️☕️
Fastly was just named Customers’ Choice for Web Application & API Protection in the March 2022
@Gartner_inc
#GartnerPeerInsights
report for the fourth consecutive year.
Take a look at the full
@Gartner_inc
report here:
Hello! I’m
@torch2424
, Senior Software Engineer at Fastly, and I’ll be doing a small takeover! 😄🎉
With
@Wasm_summit
only a month away, I wanted to spend some time chatting about how
#WebAssembly
can help improve your web applications, or run serverless code at the edge!
🧵
In honor of
#WomensHistoryMonth
, we’re featuring the (many) awesome ladies of Fastly. To kick us off, here's
@jilljubs
, our Senior Manager of Technical Recruiting. Interests include dogs, caring about employees, & building an inclusive work environment. And dogs. 🐶 👸
Today, QUIC was published by the
@ietf
— we’re looking forward to supporting QUIC traffic for our customers.
A huge congratulations to Jana Iyengar, a Distinguished Engineer at Fastly, who developed and co-edited the protocols alongside several leading industry engineers.