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Fastly's observability and monitoring: empowering smart delivery and high performance | FastlyDom Fee, Lakshmi Sharma
In this post, we break down our current observability offering and highlight some of the ways DevOps and SRE teams are using Fastly to investigate anomalies, improve performance and up-time, and engage in observability-driven development.
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Inside Fastly: a look at our vulnerability remediation processSandra Escandor-O’Keefe
In this post, we present a look at our vulnerability remediation and engineering team and how they were able to roll out a recent fix for a QUIC/H2O vulnerability in under two weeks.
EngineeringSecurity
Fastly Academy: on-demand learning at your fingertips. | FastlyThe Customer Enablement Team
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.
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How to Secure your GraphQLFastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa
There are many benefits to adopting GraphQL, but its security implications are less understood. In this post, we’ll explore those implications and offer guidance on which defaults and controls can support a safer GraphQL implementation.
EngineeringSecurity
Bootstrap a Compute project with Fastly FiddleMark McDonnell
The Fastly CLI now supports bootstrapping Compute projects using fiddles made in Fastly Fiddle as a template. This enables users to get a local developer environment up and running very quickly using one of many ready-made solutions from Fastly’s public code example library, which can then be adapted and customized for your own needs.
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Cloud Deploy simplifies Compute@Edge projects | FastlyKailan Blanks
We’re introducing Cloud Deploy, a wizard that helps you start building on Compute by deploying and customizing templates, and sets you up with an automated deployment workflow and best development practices.
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Fastly's 2021 in ReviewDavid Belson
In this post, we’ll take a look back at the past year through the eyes of our edge cloud network to explore what we saw across new protocol adoption, security initiatives, network growth, and more.
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Origin Inspector: Monitor origin traffic from the Fastly UIDom Fee
Origin Inspector provides you with a dataset and visualizations that offer real-time and historical visibility into responses delivered from your origin servers to our edge cloud. And we’re happy to say that it’s now in limited availability.
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WAF framework measures WAF effectiveness | FastlyFastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, +1
Our new WAF efficacy framework provides a standardized way to measure the effectiveness of a WAF’s detection capabilities through continuous verification and validation. Here’s how it works.
EngineeringSecurity
Log4Shell exploit found in Log4j | FastlyFastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, +1
CVE-2021-44228 is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the Apache Log4j library being actively exploited. We provide our observations into the exploit and a summary of its impact.
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30 Years of Web: Building for TomorrowLee Chen
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.
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Grinch bots penalized w/ enriched security data & our edge cloud platform Brooks Cunningham, Fastly Enterprise Solution Architects
In this post, we’ll show how you can use information from an origin response to add an abuse IP address to our penalty box. We've been touting the promise of security at the edge, and this is just one example of what it can do.
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30 Years of Web: Future-Ready AppsJana Iyengar
Many websites today are really applications, and we should be building them as such. To do that, we need application architectures and networks that are capable of supporting fast, secure, and scalable user experiences. We must embrace a more dynamic mindset in how we approach web development and consider the tools we need to get there.
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30 Years of Web: Future DemandsDavin Camara
As we look back to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the website, it’s also worth thinking about the next 30 years. There are a couple of areas where we — as engineers, developers, and builders in general — can champion innovation, mainly around architecture and security.
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You can now test Compute code in Fastly FiddleAndrew Betts
Fastly customers have been using our Fiddle tool for years to try out ideas for edge logic in VCL. With the advent of Compute last year, we made our edge compute network accessible to any language that compiles to WebAssembly, and now you can write Compute code in Fiddle too.
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Get started with Fastly logging and Compute@Edge | FastlyAlex Kesler
In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the basic steps of outputting messages to STDIO and tailing that output with the Fastly CLI as well as configuring a log streaming endpoint, emitting logs in your application, and confirming the delivery of those logs to your target logging destination.
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Preventing SSRF: Apache CVE-2021-40438 | FastlyFastly Security Research Team
Our Security Research Team provides guidance on how to address CVE-2021-40438, a vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.48 and earlier, by patching impacted version(s) and enabling a new templated rule to prevent exploitation.
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Compute: The JavaScript Support you Demanded | FastlySean Leach
With JavaScript now available for WebAssembly and Compute, you can get started faster than ever with a language you already know, while ensuring the speed and security you need in a serverless build environment.
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How to configure your Fastly services with TerraformMark McDonnell
As you start to build more at the edge, it becomes ever more important to deploy edge logic in the same way you deploy changes to your own applications and infrastructure. Today, we’ll take a step back and look holistically at how to configure, manage, and deploy Fastly services using Terraform.
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How to test site speed optimizations with ComputeLeon Brocard
In this post, we show how to test site speed modifications before implementing them using Compute and WebPageTest, a web performance tool that uses real browsers, to compare web performance between the original and transformed page versions.
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