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Simon Wistow

Simon Wistow

VP Strategic Initiatives, Fastly

Simon is a co-founder at Fastly, where he helps lead strategic initiatives. Before helping found Fastly, Simon was a senior search engineer at Yahoo! Europe, LiveJournal, SixApart, Scribd, and then at social help desk company Zendesk. In a past life, he worked on R&D for a leading VFX Company doing films like the Harry Potter series, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, Sunshine, and Wallace and Gromit. At one point he worked as a cowboy in Australia. Mostly because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Find him on Mastodon: [@simonwistow@hachyderm.io](https://hachyderm.io/@simonwistow)

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Why Precision Traffic Blocking Beats Traditional IP BlockingSimon Wistow
Learn why precision traffic blocking outperforms traditional IP blocking. Discover how Layer 7 controls, edge computing, token validation, and real-time security reduce piracy without disrupting legitimate users
StreamingPrivacy+2
Real-Time CDN Monitoring for Live Events with BrontoSimon Wistow
Achieve real-time CDN monitoring for live events with Fastly and Bronto. Unlock sub-second log queries, 12 months of retention, and cut logging costs by 50%.
CDN & DeliveryObservability+2
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Control and Monetize Your Content with the RSL StandardSimon Wistow
AI crawlers are scraping the web, often ignoring rules and costing publishers resources. The new RSL Standard lets you block, allow, or even charge AI for access to your content. Here’s how it works.
CDN & DeliveryProduct+1
Why Paying Copyright Holders for AI Training is EssentialSimon Wistow, John Agger
AI and creator rights don’t need to clash. A fair, consent-based model can drive innovation without exploiting creative work.
Industry insights
The Truth About Blocking AI, And How Publishers Can Still WinSimon Wistow
Many AI crawlers aren’t following the rules, and robots.txt can’t stop them. Blocking Google’s AI means killing your SEO, but publishers aren’t completely out of options. Edge control is becoming their last real defense.
SecurityIndustry insights+1
Edge vs Cloud: Where Should AI Live?Simon Wistow
In this article, Simon Wistow shares why hybrid AI is gaining ground and how semantic caching unlocks better performance and sustainability.
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Making the Internet Sustainable— Starting from Its InfrastructureSimon Wistow
Making the internet greener starts with its infrastructure. Learn how edge computing and smarter content delivery reduce energy waste and carbon impact.
CDN & DeliveryEngineering+1
The Gentle Art of Doing Things DifferentlySimon Wistow
Discover how constraints can drive creativity and technological breakthroughs as we look back on the transformative impact of resourcefulness in the tech industry.
Industry insightsEngineering
AI Innovation and Sustainability: Key Takeaways from the AI Action SummitSimon Wistow
Delve into the highlights of the AI Action Summit in Paris, where experts addressed pressing issues in AI, including ethics, regulation, and the sustainability of technology.
CDN & DeliveryIndustry insights+1
Introducing Fastly Staging Environment: Test with Confidence, Deploy with EaseSimon Wistow
Introducing Fastly's Staging Environment lets you test your CDN and Compute configurations effortlessly, with just a click, before they go live.
CDN & DeliveryDevOps+2
Fastly named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Edge Delivery Services 2024Simon Wistow
Celebrating our recognition as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Edge Delivery Services 2024, Fastly remains dedicated to empowering developers with cutting-edge solutions.
Edge networkCompany news+2
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It’s free, instant, and yours! Fastly’s free developer accounts are hereSimon Wistow
We’re excited to announce free developer accounts. You can instantly get started and take advantage of the most developer-friendly edge platform in the world.
CDN & DeliveryCompute+6
Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.2Simon Wistow
This is the sequel (aka 2 Fastly 2 Fediverse) of a recent blog post where we wrote about the Fediverse and how we think we can help.
DevOpsIndustry insights+1
Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.1Simon Wistow
We care deeply about all things open source and standards, and we’re excited to see how the Fediverse grows in the coming months. Today, we're explaining how it works and how we support it.
Industry insightsCulture+3
Fastly + Fanout: real-time messaging and edge computing combined | FastlySimon Wistow
We're thrilled to join forces with Fanout. The integration of Fanout technology into our network will help enable real-time app development at the edge with improved time-to-market, reduced friction, and unprecedented scale.
Company newsWebAssembly+2
Easier edge building with Fastly and Glitch | FastlySimon Wistow
Our new partnership lets you deploy Glitch apps to Compute@Edge, making it even easier to build high-quality, customized digital experiences on our edge cloud platform.
WebAssemblyCompute
Company culture in a hybrid work environment Simon Wistow
In this video from Web Summit 2021, we discuss how you build and ensure your company culture when you have some team members in person and some at home.
Culture
3 Benefits CDN's Bring to Startups Simon Wistow
A modern CDN can help improve SEO rankings, make it easier to deliver personalized content, and secure your sites and apps — three keys to a startup’s success.
PerformanceSecurity+1
Startups & Modern CDN Benefits Simon Wistow
See the 4 ways startups use CDNs to hit their goals and our list of recommended CDN providers.
Industry insightsPerformance
Adobe boosts performance and MTTR with Epsagon and Fastly logs | FastlySimon Wistow
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.
ProductObservability