The Origins of Fastly – from a Startup to Industry-Leading Next-Gen CDN Fastly was founded by technologist and entrepreneur Artur Bergman in 2011 as a CDN. He was previously CTO at Wikia, a Quantcast Top 20 site, where he built
Fastly, the rapidly-growing CDN, announced three new enterprise services on Thursday designed to help enterprise build on their edge cloud investment and free up IT and engineering resources. The three new offerings bolster Fastly’s existing edge cloud features, supporting further
At Altitude last month, Eddie Rogers, Principal Engineer, API Platform from Target presented on the retailer’s integration of Fastly’s log streaming to build dashboards and discussed the company’s history with the CDN. It started in 2015 when Target added Fastly’s CDN to
PerfOps, a startup that has recently launched an analytics platform, has benchmarked the network performance of some of the biggest names in content delivery. PerfOps, which has been in development for the last two and a half years, officially launched
Over the last decade, there has been a growth in patent-holding plaintiffs known as non-practising entities, or what critics prefer to call a patent troll. Blackbird Technologies, a recently founded Boston and Chicago-based firm who have amassed a portfolio of
Google, Cloudflare and Fastly each started the New Year with announcements about overseas expansions of their points of presence (PoP) and a growth in network capacity and infrastructure. Google Adds Five New Regions and Three New Subsea Cables In 2018,
Fastly and Cloudflare both recently published end-of-year posts looking at the DDoS landscape as a whole. Both CDNs note the ways in which the DDoS landscape is evolving and the trend in increasingly sophisticated types of DDoS attack. Fastly’s position
Since its founding in 2011 as a Content Delivery Network (CDN), Fastly has scaled rapidly into an edge cloud platform that serves more than 10% of all Internet requests (up to 400 billion a day), powering the systems behind Spotify
At the start of August, Fastly announced that it had added a collection of new points of presence (PoPs) to its global network. They now have 40 points of presence globally, most recently adding a new state-of-the-art facility in Rio
Fastly announced today the release of their new edge cloud platform, which provides application delivery, scalability, and security at the edge of the network. Built into the platform are three products Fastly is also announcing today–the Fastly Image Optimizer, Load
The free video-hosting platform Vimeo, has adopted Multi-Regional Google Cloud Storage, one of the new storage classes that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) recently unveiled during its major refresh of Google Cloud Storage platform. Crucially, GCP has been integrated with Fastly’s
Fastly has unveiled its Managed CDN, which can be deployed on top of customers’ existing private networks, is dedicated solely for their use, and delivered as a fully managed service. Its CDN technology comes with Dynamic Site Acceleration, request collapsing,
This election cycle’s first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was among the most highly anticipated in all of American history. It drew a massive global audience, with ad buyers predicting a marked 20-50% increase in viewership compared
After the two massive DDoS attacks last week, it’s time to re-think the DDoS Mitigation architecture strategy. Brian Krebs got hit with a 620Gbps DDoS attack and OVH with a 799Gbps attack. The interesting part – the 799Gbps attack was
In our quest for knowledge and insight, we’re going to start posting key videos that highlight important challenges in our industry – the industry being CDN, Cloud Security and Infrastructure. This presentation is from our friends over at Fastly. Tyler
