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Going offline: internet disruptions we saw in Q3 2021
David Belson
It’s important for companies and end users to monitor and understand internet outages so they can spot patterns, understand trends, and help mitigate disruptions. At Fastly, we monitor these disruptions and share them transparently with our community. These are the worldwide incidents we saw in the third quarter of 2021.
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Trustworthy internet created by new tech standards | Fastly
Jonathan Foote
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) develops technology to combat disinformation. Recently, the group released a public draft specification designed to make it easier to trace both the origin and evolution of the media we all create and consume. In this blog post, we cover the problem, the role of C2PA tech, and how you can get involved.
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Legacy security tools: peace of mind at what price?
Julie Rockett
Companies using an average of 11 web application and API security tools should be able to rest easy, but the vast majority of them report successful attacks are still getting through. These legacy tools aren’t cutting it.
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4 Steps to Centralized Security Tooling
Sean Leach
Here are four repeatable steps that will help you pay down your security technical debt, make your apps and APIs more secure, and move you toward consolidated security tooling.
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Why don’t your security tools work anymore?
Sean Leach
As the internet landscape gets more complex, more API driven, and more distributed, many security and IT professionals are left wondering — why aren’t the security tools that were good enough a few years ago good enough now?
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Who Takes the Gold in the Fastly Games?
David Belson
The Fastly Games compare countries in four data-driven events based on aggregated network traffic: IPv6 adoption, HTTP versions, operating system (OS) versions, and browser versions.
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Talking traffic: internet disruptions we saw in Q2 2021
David Belson
During the second quarter of 2021, a number of internet disruptions were observed around the world for a variety of planned and unplanned reasons. Here’s what we saw.
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Cranelift vetted for secure sandboxing in Compute@Edge | Fastly
Pat Hickey, Chris Fallin, + 1 more
Alongside the Bytecode Alliance, Fastly’s WebAssembly team recently led a rigorous security assessment of Cranelift, an open-source, next-generation code generator for use in WebAssembly to provide sandbox security functionality.
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Minimizing ossification risk is everyone’s responsibility
Mark Nottingham
Building protocols in a way that anticipates future change in order to prevent ossification is critical. Because it’s impossible to upgrade everyone on the internet at the same time; it needs to be possible to introduce changes gradually, without harming communication where only one party understands the change — and this is everyone’s responsibility.
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QUIC is now RFC 9000
Jana Iyengar
QUIC version 1 is officially formalized, and QUIC deployments will now move away from using temporary draft versions to the newly minted version 1.
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COVID boosts traffic across industries | Fastly
David Belson
Increased internet usage due to COVID-19 drove a ‘COVID bump’ in traffic across certain industry verticals, including digital media publishing, education, and social media.
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CEO Srivishnu Piratla on "Tech for Good"
Hannah Aubry
Hear from the CEO of Tech for Good, Srivishnu Piratla, as he outlines how teaching computer science skills can support underserved communities and businesses, drive international efforts for connectivity, and inspire the broader tech community to get involved.
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Startups & Modern CDN Benefits
Simon Wistow
See the 4 ways startups use CDNs to hit their goals and our list of recommended CDN providers.
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Debugging QUIC with H2O and QLog
Toru Maesaka
QUIC is a secure low-latency transport layer protocol that is commonly known as the transport protocol of HTTP/3. Here, we’ll discuss how we added support for QLog, an incremental QUIC endpoint logging format, to H2O, an open- source HTTP server that we deploy throughout our edge cloud platform.
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When do you need low-latency HTTP live streaming?
John Agger
Low-latency live streaming is more relevant than ever. New user experiences, like quizzes and real-time voting, built around content and entertainment must be available with little to no delay. In this post, we look at the business cases that warrant low-latency HTTP live streaming.
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API Focus for Commerce Companies
Adrien Pujol
As commerce companies embark on their digital transformation journeys, headless architecture is a hot topic. Here are five ways a modern CDN can deliver on the promise of headless commerce.
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DDoS attacks grow bigger, but so do responses
Michael Sabbota
DDoS attacks have been growing larger over the past few years. But so has the industry’s response to them. In this post, we take a look at what industry bodies and a modern CDN can do to protect your traffic.
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Cyber Five: what we saw during ecommerce's big week
David Belson
Ads leading up to the annual Black Friday - Cyber Monday holiday shopping weekend this year were remarkably devoid of the promises of “doorbuster” sales at the local malls and big-box stores. Instead, retailers moved their promotions to their ecommerce sites. With the weekend now in our rear-view mirror, we examine aggregate traffic volumes for 100 of Fastly’s top U.S. based ecommerce customers.
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Dora Militaru debunks Developer Career Path Myth | Fastly
Hannah Aubry
In this developer spotlight, we talk to Dora Militaru about her story and thoughts on the tech industry, as well as glean sage advice and inspiration for developers, hiring managers, and those with an unconventional story to share.
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Prepare for DDoS attacks: 5 steps to take | Fastly
Gino Lang
Layer 7 attacks that target applications and issue requests that can swamp origin systems often seek to blend into other network traffic and require a more focused defense than Layer 3 and 4 attacks. Here are five best practices you can implement to help prepare for such attacks.
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