Engineering
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Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes Retires – Where to Go From Here
The Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes is retiring in March 2026. Learn your migration options to the Gateway API or HAProxy to maintain security and long-term architecture.
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Building an AI Gateway on Fastly Compute
Route multi-provider LLM requests at the edge. Build a low-latency, policy-driven AI Gateway on Fastly Compute for fast, cost-efficient AI apps.
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Global Scale, Local Presence: Fastly Object Storage Expands to New Regions
Fastly Object Storage (FOS) expands its global footprint with 5 new regions. Get localized, low-latency storage, eliminate egress fees, and try On-Demand Migration.
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Your Fastly VCL deserves an IDE: bringing full VCL language support to Visual Studio Code
Editing Fastly VCL just levelled up. Discover the VS Code extension that adds navigation, refactors, inlay hints, and powerful developer tooling.
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Reliable Deployments for Large Kubernetes Fleet
Struggling to scale GitOps? Discover how Fastly moved beyond standard Kubernetes tools to build a custom ArgoCD orchestration layer for safe, global multi-cluster rollouts.
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AI Agents on Fastly Compute: How it Works and What Makes it Secure
Learn how to run AI agents on Fastly Compute, leveraging the edge for low latency and WebAssembly sandboxes for enterprise-grade speed and security.
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Beyond CRUD: Advanced Features of Fastly’s KV Store
Go beyond CRUD with Fastly’s KV Store. Use metadata, generation markers and TTL to build faster, safer edge applications.
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CDN vs Caching: What is the Difference?
CDN and caching can get confused for one another. Learn the differences between CDN and caching to help decide what you should use for optimal web performance.
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Smarter Data Migration: Move Less, Save More with Fastly
Move only the active data you need with Fastly's On-Demand Migration for Object Storage. Cut expensive egress fees & simplify management with the new UI.
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Unparalleled Performance: Bring Your C++ Logic to the Edge
Bring your C++ logic to the edge with the Beta Fastly Compute SDK. Achieve unparalleled, near-native performance, low-latency, and enhanced security via WebAssembly (Wasm).
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Deploy for Performance: Fastly’s Principles of Infrastructure Diversity and Soft Control
Discover Fastly's core resilience principles: Infrastructure Diversity prevents outages, and Soft Influence optimizes traffic for peak performance.
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How Fastly and Yottaa Transform Site Performance with Early Hints
Early Hints for Compute is now generally available, dramatically improving website performance and user experience by preloading essential resources.
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Preventing outages with resilient architectures
Fastly’s resilient architecture principles prevent outages, mitigate severity, and deliver on our availability promises without compromising performance.
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VCL Support for Parameters in Custom Subs
Learn about Fastly's VCL syntax updates, including return values and parameters for custom subroutines, enabling better code reuse and abstraction.
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Building Scalable Waiting Rooms with Fastly Compute
Control website traffic and prevent server overload with Fastly Compute waiting rooms. Learn how to build scalable, customizable queues for high-demand events.
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Optimizing Web Performance: Unpacking Fastly’s Intelligent Compression Defaults
Optimize web performance with Fastly's intelligent compression defaults. Learn how Gzip and Brotli shrink payload sizes, reduce costs, and speed up your site.
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Rewriting HTML with the Fastly JavaScript SDK
Boost web performance with Fastly’s JS SDK v3.35.0. Use the new streaming HTML rewriter to customize, cache, and transform pages faster and more efficiently.
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A Smarter ACME Challenge for a Multi-CDN World
Optimize your multi-CDN setup with Fastly's new dns-account-01 ACME challenge. Eliminate label collisions and enhance certificate management.
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How to Tame Varnish Memory Usage Safely
How Fastly turned a shelved Varnish idea into 25% fewer memory writes and real system-wide gains.
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Design for Chaos: Fastly’s Principles of Fault Isolation and Graceful Degradation
Learn how Fastly builds a resilient CDN through fault isolation & graceful degradation. Discover our principles for minimizing disruption & ensuring continuous service.
