Fastly Blog

Beta" A New Serverless Compute Environment

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Fastly is now offering access to its serverless compute environment in private beta. Meet Compute@Edge, a uniquely secure, performant, and scalable approach to serverless computing.

4 Ways Legacy WAF Fails to Protect Your Apps

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT

The legacy WAF isn’t ubiquitous because it’s the perfect technology. Its success comes down to being mandated, despite four ways it often fails.

Vibe Shift? Senior Developers Ship nearly 2.5x more AI Code than Junior Counterparts

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Fastly’s survey shows senior developers trust gen AI tools enough to ship 2.5x more AI code, while juniors stick to traditional coding and caution.

Optimizing your multi-CDN infrastructure to improve performance

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Best Practices for Multi-CDN Implementations | Fastly

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Learn how multi-cdn works and discover the benefits of a multi-cdn approach. See how you can implement a multi-CDN architecture using these 8 steps.

Adapting in the Era of AI

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Stop malicious bots and control AI crawlers from scraping your IP. Fastly's ContentGuard gives you the control and visibility needed in the era of AI.

Fastly can teach you about the Wasm future in just 6 talks

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT

The future of the web is Wasm — here's why.

Are APIs the Key to Digital Innovation or a Trojan Horse?

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

In this new report, we surveyed 235 IT and cybersecurity professionals across Europe to shed light on the state of API security.

Innovation Capacity Defined: Tech Stack Values | Fastly

Wed, 27 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT

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

Caching the Uncacheable: CSRF Security

Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT

In this post, I investigate several strategies for maintaining security while improving cacheability. I use Ruby on Rails for the examples, but the techniques apply to nearly any web application framework.

Increase Your Hit Ratio With This Simple Tip

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT

If you're caching URLs that include user input, such as a search box, and the search is case insensitive, there's a really easy way to increase your hit ratio: convert the URL to lowercase.

Deep Log Visibility Offered by Logentries | Fastly

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Today Logentries released a Fastly Community Pack, which automatically sets up tags, saved queries, and visualizations in the Logentries dashboard to help Fastly customers get the most out of their real-time logs.

Early TLS at Fastly

Fri, 18 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT

While we started with an original intention to fully deprecate TLS 1.0 as early as 2015, we’re currently reporting that about 20% of our customers in total are still relying on TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1. Providing breadth-of-access means that not everyone can upgrade their browser or phone, and for some users, Fastly is their gateway to web access. It’s a balance we’re trying hard to preserve and something that is central to who we are as a web enabler. Starting today, we’re taking a different approach to our TLS deprecation.

Best content delivery networks for bot management

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Technical trainings & the future of edge delivery at Altitude

Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Altitude SF 2017 featured hands-on trainings and talks from industry leaders like Reddit, the ACLU, Slack, TED, and more. We explored the future of edge delivery, heard about emerging trends in cloud infrastructure and DevOps, and tackled complex problems in cloud security. Read on for our recap of the event (plus slides, videos, and photos).

Fastly Academy: on-demand learning at your fingertips. | Fastly

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Fastly Academy, our new on-demand learning center, contains lessons for learners of all levels. It’s one more way we’re helping you work — and expand your skills — the way that fits you best.

Fastly's Observability Unleashed: New Updates and Insights

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Don't miss out on our upgraded Observability packages, providing customers with the ability to purchase multiple features in a single product package.

Fastly + Scalepost: Extending the Fastly platform to manage AI Crawlers

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

See when and how AI chatbots use your content. With Fastly and ScalePost, publishers finally gain visibility into how their work shows up in AI-generated answers.

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

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Fastly CDN Expands

Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT

At Fastly, we’re constantly working to upgrade our network and expand global capacity. Last week, we built up capacity in our Ashburn, New York City, and Los Angeles POPs and brought a new Miami POP online to improve user experience in South and Central America. We also brought a second London POP online and increased the capacity in our existing London and Frankfurt POPs. In addition to our existing POPs in Tokyo and New Zealand, we’ve added new POPs in Singapore and Hong Kong to bring our customers’ content even closer to users in Asia Pacific. These upgrades are already available to current customers.

30 Years of Web: Building for Tomorrow

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT

The web’s infrastructure — and the applications we build on it — must constantly evolve to meet the ever-transforming expectations of modern and future end users. We’ve gathered five lessons today’s builders can use to drive the next three decades of the web.

Scaling Fastly Network: Balancing Requests | Fastly

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Our previous post detailed how Fastly started down the slippery slope of network software. By implementing a distributed routing system on commodity switches, we were able to maintain complete control over how we forward packets at a fraction of the cost imposed by conventional networking wisdom.

Compute@Edge: Serverless Insights by Company | Fastly

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Vox Media, Mux, and PerimeterX share how Compute is unlocking performance, agility, and creativity across their organizations.

Maximizing Compute Performance with Log Explorer & Insights

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Monitor and troubleshoot Fastly Compute services with Log Explorer & Insights. Gain granular insights, optimize performance, and debug faster for efficient applications.

Stay ahead of attackers by pushing your security perimeter to the edge

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

An effective edge security strategy can provide significant benefits and protect organizations from the continually evolving threat landscape.