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Fastly @fastly.com · 4d

🏴‍☠️ Not all treasure is buried… some of it’s powering your favorite websites ⚡️🌐 Peek behind the curtain: #InsideAFastlyPoP

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Fastly @fastly.com · 5d

77% of devs care about sustainable code — but most lack the tools to measure impact. 🌍

Fastly’s new Sustainability dashboard ties emissions data directly to your workloads so you can optimize for both performance + carbon impact.

👉 www.fastly.com/blog/tips-fo...

Fastly @fastly.com · 11d

🎉 Exciting News! Fastly was just named a Customers’ Choice for Cloud Web Applications and API Protection and the only vendor to do so for the seventh year in a row! Find out why: fastly.com/blog/fastlys... #Gartner #WAF

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Fastly @fastly.com · 12d

💻 Make sense of the chaos with API Discovery 🔍

Managing APIs doesn’t have to be a burden. With just one click, API Discovery takes away the mystery and gives you complete visibility into what APIs are in use on the Fastly edge network. Learn more: www.fastly.com/blog/make-se...

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · Aug 26

Found a video from a couple of years ago when I wrote a brainfuck implementation in Fastly VCL. Each tick of the interpreter was executed by making a GET request to the VCL service with the entire interpreter state encoded in the URL. Anyway, here is "hello world" in 1771 GET requests.

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 23d

🐞 Building a debugger = learning how computers really work.

On today’s #GOTOpodcast, @timdbg.com & @tartanllama.xyz unpack:

🔍 The hidden complexity of stack unwinding & stepping
🖥️ Windows vs Linux debugging
⏳ Time travel debugging & the future

🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

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Fastly @fastly.com · 25d

How do you optimize package delivery for 950,000+ Python developers? Check out how we're using Individual Provider Anycast to power platforms like @PyPI, where small improvements × billions of requests = massive impact!
https://www.fastly.com/blog/powering-pypi-with-advanced-traffic-engineering

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Fastly @fastly.com · Sep 12

What’s it like to be an engineer at Fastly? 🚀 From tackling complex challenges to collaborating with teammates, we captured a “Day in the Life” of 4 engineers.

See why Fastly is a unique place to grow, build & thrive. Explore roles: www.fastly.com/careers

#LifeAtFastly #Engineering #TechCareers

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Fastly @fastly.com · Sep 11

Protecting content while maximizing revenue has always been a challenge.

The new RSL (Really Simple Licensing) standard helps publishers control access, safeguard assets, and unlock new monetization opportunities.

Learn more in our latest blog: www.fastly.com/blog/control...

Control and Monetize Your Content with the RSL Standard | Fastly

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.

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Fastly @fastly.com · Sep 8

We love seeing what the developer community builds on Fastly!
An open source project just dropped that makes it possible to run MCP servers on Fastly (and other vendors).
Big thanks to the community for pushing the ecosystem forward. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE4U...
#opensource

Create a new MCP server in minutes with ModelFetch and Fastly

YouTube video by ModelFetch

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Fastly @fastly.com · Aug 25

Proud to see some of the fastest sites on the web — Business Insider, FT, Buzzfeed, Vox — running on Fastly 🚀.
Check out how we make the internet faster 👉 www.fastly.com/blog/fastest...

#TeamFastly #WebPerformance

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Fastly @fastly.com · Aug 18

👏 Thx to the @python.org for the shout out in their latest blog post on strengthening PyPI security! Their new safeguards against domain resurrection attacks make it harder for attackers to exploit expired domains for account takeovers, a win for open-source security. blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-0...

Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks - The Python Package Index Blog

PyPI now checks for expired domains to prevent domain resurrection attacks, a type of supply-chain attack where someone buys an expired domain and uses it to take over PyPI accounts through password r...

blog.pypi.org

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Fastly @fastly.com · Aug 18

🔒 HTTP/1.1 desynchronization attacks (aka request smuggling) can put web apps at risk.

Fastly stops them with:
✅ Strict parsing
✅ Edge normalization
✅ Blocking bad requests

Learn more: www.fastly.com/blog/demysti...
#Security #AppSec

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Fastly @fastly.com · Aug 13

Fastly now supports C2PA in Image Optimizer! 🚀

We're preserving content provenance at scale, ensuring digital media authenticity as it moves through delivery pipelines. A step towards a more trustworthy internet.

Learn more: www.fastly.com/blog/trust-a...

Fastly @fastly.com · Aug 11

🔧 The SeatGeek team built (and open sourced!) Fastly Operator — a Kubernetes operator that automates Custom TLS cert management.
✅ Automates uploads, activations & renewals
✅ Eliminates ACME conflicts
✅ Runs in prod at SeatGeek
Read more: chairnerd.seatgeek.com/fastly-opera...

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Fastly @fastly.com · Aug 7

🛡️ Fastly is resilient to the latest HTTP/1.1 desync attacks 🛡️

New vulnerabilities revealed at Black Hat affect many CDNs—but not Fastly. Our unified architecture & strict validation keep us secure by design. No patches. No workarounds.

Read more 👉 www.fastly.com/blog/fastlys...

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Fastly @fastly.com · Aug 4

We’ve made managing Fastly services easier than ever. Fastly’s MCP (Model Context Protocol) server wraps CLI commands in an MCP-compliant interface. Manage your services, purge caches, and get performance insights right in your AI assistant tools. Start building now: github.com/fastly/mcp

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Fastly @fastly.com · Aug 4

From burnout to builder. Fastly does the grunt work so you don’t have to. www.fastly.com/security-mad...
#securitydevelopersactuallylove

Fastly @fastly.com · Jul 29

👀 Did someone say “make attackers cry?” 😹

Get an early look at the new Deception capability in the Fastly Next-Gen WAF. Visit Fastly booth #2661 (Aug 6–7) at Black Hat 2025 to learn all about how we’re making attackers feel insecure in the dark. 👻 www.fastly.com/blog/make-at...

Fastly @fastly.com · Jul 23

🤖 89% of bot traffic = unwanted.

Fastly’s Threat Insights Report breaks down how bad bots are skewing analytics, inflating costs & fueling attacks.

📊 Get the full report: learn.fastly.com/security-thr...

#CyberSecurity #BotMitigation #ThreatReport

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Fastly @fastly.com · Jul 7

🌟 Intern Spotlight: Meet Julian Essiaw & Kyutza Lopez-Herrera!

Julian is driving insights as our Revenue Growth Intern, and Kyutza is powering go-to-market success as our Product Enablement Intern.

We’re lucky to have them on Team Fastly! 🚀
#FastlyInterns #InternSpotlight #LifeAtFastly

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Fastly @fastly.com · Jul 1

🚨 Account takeovers are on the rise—are you ready?
Join Fastly’s live session to learn how to:
✅ Stop takeover attacks
✅ Detect bot traffic
✅ Automate smarter defenses
🎁 Free Web App Security Assessment for attendees!
📅 Save your spot → learn.fastly.com/security-how...
#CyberSecurity #Fastly

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Fastly @fastly.com · Jun 27

🌟 Intern Spotlight: Meet Larissa Ala & Keith Curry! 🌟

Larissa (Software Engineer Intern on the Domain Services team) & Keith (Software Engineer intern on the Cloud & Container Services team) are part of Fastly’s summer Engineering cohort

#InternSpotlight #LifeAtFastly #FastlyInterns #TechTalent

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Fastly @fastly.com · Jun 25

Excited to announce that Fastly is now “Deployed on AWS” in #AWSMarketplace!

Our CDN & security solutions—like Next-Gen WAF & Bot Management—are fully optimized for AWS to help you streamline procurement, simplify compliance & deploy with confidence.

🔗 Learn more: www.fastly.com/blog/fastly-...

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Fastly @fastly.com · Jun 9

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Linux Foundation Announces the FAIR Package Manager Project for Open Source Content Management System Stability

Linux Foundation announces FAIR Package Manager project, creating simplicity, security and consistency for the WordPress ecosystem

www.linuxfoundation.org