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Extended trainings, Slack, and the ACLU at Altitude San Francisco
Simon Wistow | May 18, 2017
Join us June 28-29 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.
The New York Times on failure, risk, and prepping for the 2016 US presidential election
Anna MacLachlan | May 16, 2017
At Altitude NYC, The New York Times CTO Nick Rockwell gave us a peek inside The New York Times’ stack and culture (and how he’s redefined risk from both a corporate and engineering standpoint), and described how they prepare for major events — such as the 2016 presidential election.
The IoT industry’s response to emerging threats
Jose Nazario, PhD | May 10, 2017
Late last year, we took a look at how the Internet of Things (IoT) is under attack. We analyzed hundreds of individual IoT devices to see how often they were probed for vulnerabilities, with the intention of being employed for IoT botnet attacks. We did more robust vulnerability research on IoT devices that have been found vulnerable in the past and concluded that while malicious probes are constant, manufacturers have taken action to update their firmware and address security holes. Read on to hear our latest findings.
Leveraging the browser cache with Fastly’s CDN
Rogier Mulhuijzen | May 3, 2017
Since a CDN is essentially a cache, you might be tempted to avoid complexity by not making use of the browser cache. However, each cache has its own advantages that the other does not provide. In this post, I’ll explain the advantages of each, and how to combine the two for the most optimal website performance — and the best experience for your end users.
Announcing our 35th POP: Johannesburg + upgrades to our network
Tom Daly | April 19, 2017
We’re pleased to announce our 35th point of presence (POP) located in Johannesburg, South Africa, and have grown our overall network capacity by 737.6% since 2014. We’ve deployed to Johannesburg (JNB) to increase performance for sites delivered by Fastly throughout southern Africa. With JNB online, Fastly now has POPs on six continents. In this post, VP of Infrastructure Tom Daly discusses the improvements users in South Africa and neighboring areas will see, as well as the latest updates to our network in Auckland, Miami, Seattle, and Singapore.
Altitude NYC 2017 in review: videos and slides
Anna MacLachlan | April 13, 2017
Altitude NYC brought together Fastly engineers and industry leaders like The New York Times and Nordstromrack.com | Hautelook to discuss complex problems in security, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and more. Check out our recap and watch the session videos to learn about the vision behind Fastly, take a look under the hood of a DDoS attack, see what went down on election night at the NYT, and more.
IPv6 at Fastly
Jason Evans | March 31, 2017
As Fastly CEO Artur Bergman has said, “We will always insist that every component of the Fastly platform is fully integrated – we don’t limit features to subsets of our network.” We take the time to fully integrate standardized protocols and technologies like HTTP/2 and IPv6 into our stack, and maintain the standards our customers have come to expect. Here’s our story of the evolution of IPv6 at Fastly — and how to implement it.
Creating originless & cloud-based services with Fastly + Terraform
Léon Brocard | March 14, 2017
In a previous post, HashiCorp’s Seth Vargo introduced the Terraform infrastructure-as-code tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure. In this post, we’ll cover two cases using Terraform with Fastly: first we’ll create and manage an originless service and then we’ll create and manage a Google Compute Engine instance with a Fastly service in front of it.
Cache hit ratios at the edge: a performance study
Hooman Beheshti | March 9, 2017
In an earlier post, we discussed the meaning of cache hit ratio (CHR) and analyzed what the metric is and isn’t telling us, showing why we really need two different CHR metrics (CHRedge and CHRglobal) to fully understand how a CDN is serving your clients. In this post, we’ll analyze CHRedge by way of a discussion about performance measurement via testing.
Our continued solidarity: in support of the ACLU and Gavin Grimm
Artur Bergman | March 2, 2017
Today, we joined our customers, partners, and friends in filing an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief challenging the Gloucester County School Board’s policy related to gender identity. We believe building and fostering inclusive workplace environments is the right thing to do
