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Posting what the devs are up to and enjoying at Fastly + Glitch. You know - docs, code, potions, etc. 📝 💾 ⚗️

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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 12/03/2025
OpenAI's new dev tools (see here: openai.com/index/new-to...) help you accelerate your agentic application builds and Fastly can help you accelerate your APIs once the app is deployed. Change one line of code to take advantage of instant AI 👉 www.fastly.com/products/ai
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New tools for building agents
We’re evolving our platform to help developers and enterprises build useful and reliable agents.
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Megan Logan 🏳️‍🌈 @meganlogan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Watch Duty has absolutely saved lives in the last few days here in Los Angeles. if you have the means, they’re nonprofit and you can donate to support their work here: app.watchduty.org/donate
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 09/01/2025
We’re inspired by our Fast Forward program member Watch Duty and the way they’ve been invaluable to everyone in Los Angeles impacted by these devastating fires. gizmodo.com/watch-duty-h...
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Watch Duty App Creator Says He'll Never Pull an OpenAI
Gizmodo spoke with the creator of the app that provides vital alerts about evacuations.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 24/05/2024
CDNs can feel obscure and intimidating when you're just trying to get your site or app online. @jedisct1.bsky.social can help — he explains how CDNs work, how Fastly is different, and how to set up simple distributed caches and compute services. 00f.net/2024/05/07/w...
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A comprehensive introduction to CDNs | Frank DENIS random thoughts.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 01/05/2024
With Preview 2 of WASI and the Component Model complete and shipping 🎉 now we set our sights on what’s to come in Preview 3: native async support. #webassembly Listen in as Luke Wagner takes you on that journey! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3x4...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 30/04/2024
“Open source is not just about the software, or the copyright,” said @haubl.es. “It’s about ethos, it‘s about values.” Learn more about how Fastly supports open source communities with #FastFoward in this interview from KubeCon EU last month! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEsX...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 29/04/2024
Can your KV Store do 6ms reads? 👀 www.fastly.com/blog/be-amon...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 26/04/2024
There is so much we could say about this ⏩ Fast Forward Friday ⏩ program member, but we’d rather just show you! Go see how #jsDelivr serves the open source community in real time, around the world! 🌎 www.fastly.com/documentatio...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 24/04/2024
Getting started with #WebAssembly? Let us point you in the right direction with videos on OS design, the component model, security features, generative AI and more! ▶️ www.fastly.com/blog/fastly-...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 23/04/2024
Challenge: Name one under-sung open source creator you know who deserves a shoutout 🏅
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 22/04/2024
#HappyEarthDay 🌎 In 2022, we built a PoP power emissions dashboard capturing energy output data from the data centers housing our Points of Presence (PoPs). This dashboard allows Fastly to report to you the PoP power emissions generated by your usage of Fastly services. 🙌
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 18/04/2024
There’s a ton of gold in our public repos, and scandalously, few people know it’s there! 🫨 www.fastly.com/blog/open-so...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 17/04/2024
Congratulations to our #FastForward program member Scratch Foundation, who just reached 1000000000 projects! 🎉🎉🎉 We’re proud to support Scratch and their community of 100 million kids learning to code. 🙌 scratch.mit.edu/projects/100...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 12/04/2024
We need to lend a hand by giving back to the projects we use. Ideas about giving back (and how Fastly does) are in this blog from @anildash.com: www.fastly.com/blog/what-ca...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 12/04/2024
Behind your browser, the internet is people. Repeatedly, we see what happens when the humanity and fatigue of people maintaining critical infrastructure are exploited. Most recently, with the discovery of the XZ utils hack.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 12/04/2024
HugOps to unpkg and to everyone in open source who goes through similar stresses — outages like this demonstrate modern digital infrastructure's fundamental fragility: www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24...
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A popular open-source content delivery network went down for hours
It’s back up now.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 12/04/2024
This ⏩ Fast Forward Friday ⏩ we’re celebrating an org who has defended civil liberties in the digital world for the last 34 years: @eff.org Next month, their hosting their annual Tech Trivia Night in SF, don’t miss it! www.eff.org/event/effs-8...
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EFF's 8th Annual Tech Trivia Night
Join us in San Francisco on May 9th for EFF's 8th annual Tech Trivia Night! Explore the obscure minutiae of digital security, online rights, and internet culture.Enjoy delicious tacos, churros, and
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 10/04/2024
WOW! 11 things you can do with Fastly’s delivery service that give your code super powers and help you work smarter! Wow!! dev.to/fastly/11-th...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 28/03/2024
“The goal is to create a robust ecosystem that can accommodate diverse use cases and programming languages, including Rust, C#, JavaScript, Python, C++, Kotlin and Go.” thenewstack.io/wasi-0-2-unl...
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WASI 0.2: Unlocking WebAssembly’s Promise Outside the Browser
WASI 0.2 symbolizes the culmination of years of collaborative effort and innovation, paving the way for a new era of cross-platform development and deployment.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 26/03/2024
Hey #RustNation 👋 How stoked are you to kick off tomorrow morning with the very talented @haubl.es 🙌 Don’t be late for her talk on trust! www.rustnationuk.com/schedule
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Our 2024 Schedule | Rust Nation UK
Check out our speaker line-up for Rust Nation UK 2024. We're proud to bring together leading speakers, attributors and educators from around the world and provide our community with the best resources...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 25/03/2024
@fastly/esi is now available on npm, ready to be added to any JavaScript program. 🙌 Use it at the edge in your Fastly Compute programs, but it can even work outside of Compute, as long as your environment supports the fetch API. www.fastly.com/blog/a-modul...
fastly.com
A modular Edge Side Includes component for JavaScript Compute
Fastly’s ESI library for JavaScript, now available on npm, allows you to add powerful ESI processing to your application.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 22/03/2024
On this ⏩ Fast Forward Friday ⏩ we’re happy to feature program members Rust Foundation and the excellent work they do to guide both the Rust development and community. 👏 foundation.rust-lang.org/news/rust-fo...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 22/03/2024
Starting soon, join us!!
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 21/03/2024
“AI is not here to take our jobs... but I would love to see continued advancement there, being able to automate more, be able to identify threats that we just wouldn’t have been able to otherwise.” www.tines.com/blog/podcast...
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Fastly’s Andrew Santell on going from the Navy to Netflix and breaking free of bad processes | Tines
The Director of Security Operations talks about the importance of risk prioritization and strong leadership in incident response.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 20/03/2024
Join us this Friday for the next episode of Fastly Developers Live #11! 🚀 Brooks Cunningham is joining to guide us through the wonderful world of OpenAI specifications 🪄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtIR...
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Magical OpenAPI specifications with APIClarity – Fastly Developers Live #11
Join Brooks Cunningham, Fastly Security Strategist, as he dives into the powerful capabilities of Fastly that can be used in conjunction with APIClarity to e...
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Hannah Aubry @haubles.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
WASI 0.2 is here the Component Model unlocks Wasm's potential outside the browser & a new way to build websites & applications. Learn more about it from the people creating it at @developer.fastly.com in @thenewstack.bsky.social thenewstack.io/wasi-0-2-unl...
thenewstack.io
WASI 0.2: Unlocking WebAssembly’s Promise Outside the Browser
WASI 0.2 symbolizes the culmination of years of collaborative effort and innovation, paving the way for a new era of cross-platform development and deployment.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 20/03/2024
Hey #KubeCon 👋 Today is a great day to chat with @haubl.es about Fastly’s open source program #FastForward 💖 Find her at the Fastly booth (N8) to learn more about it! events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-clou...
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe | LF Events
CNCF’s flagship conference gathers adopters & technologists from leading OS and cloud native communities for education and advancement of cloud native computing.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 18/03/2024
It’s not enough to have a public repo and a code of conduct – we take the business of open source to heart, and we’re happy to share some important announcements! dev.to/fastly/open-...
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Open source at Fastly is getting opener
Like most tech companies these days, Fastly is heavily reliant on open source software and the...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 15/03/2024
Also, if you’re in Paris for #KubeCon, #FastForward lead @haubl.es will be at the Fastly booth (N8) to answer your questions! 👋 events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-clou...
events.linuxfoundation.org
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe | LF Events
CNCF’s flagship conference gathers adopters & technologists from leading OS and cloud native communities for education and advancement of cloud native computing.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 15/03/2024
This ⏩ Fast Forward Friday ⏩ we are happy to highlight a newer program member: @kubernetes.bsky.social ✨ Did you know you can watch a video about k8s moving their traffic to Fastly, and see their live Edge Observer dashboard, on our developer page? www.fastly.com/documentatio...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 11/03/2024
This was rescheduled for next Monday, so mark your calendars 📆
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 08/03/2024
It's true, *a lot* of your favorite open source projects receive support from Fastly via #FastForward, our commitment to extending free services to the projects and organizations that move the good web forward ➡️ www.fastly.com/fast-forward
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Fast Forward - how we're building the open internet
The internet is a pretty neat place. It’s where the world’s most creative minds gather to build things that benefit everyone. Open source, open standards, or just the open internet — with every contri...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 08/03/2024
Did you know that while the W3C supports the stakeholders of the web, Fastly has been supporting the W3C? This ⏩ Fast Forward Friday ⏩ we’re happy to celebrate the very consortium that helps keep the web together and moving forward! www.w3.org
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 07/03/2024
Did you catch the Fastly shout out in this episode about the future of Python packaging? Thanks @hynek.me 🙌 youtube.com/clip/UgkxCm2...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 05/03/2024
Heading to DevOps Live this week? Don’t miss Dora Militaru on Thurs at 15:40! She’ll be talking about auth architecture for the modern, open web, using modern, passwordless standards and edge computing, a.k.a. The Art of Edge Authentication 🖼️ www.devopslive.co.uk
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Welcome - DevOps Live
Collaborate to innovate at DevOps Live. Join thousands of technology leaders and innovators on 6-7 March 2024. Registration is free.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 04/03/2024
Who knows how much time you could save your future self by watching the next Fastly Developers Live episode on using APIClarity with OpenAPI and just a pinch of magic ✨ Tune in a week from today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtIR...
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Magical OpenAPI specifications with APIClarity – Fastly Developers Live #11
Join Brooks Cunningham, Fastly Security Strategist, as he dives into the powerful capabilities of Fastly that can be used in conjunction with APIClarity to e...
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 02/02/2024
huge thanks to @fastly.com for supporting my work by including my websites in their "fast forward" program! they're generously providing caching services for @web3isgoinggreat.com and citation needed.
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フィリイプ @handle.invalid · 03/02/2024
We made the same move across various projects. Even so far as building functionality on the @fastly.com compute platform. The Fast Forward program has been incredibly helpful for our transition. 💚
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 01/03/2024
Like Jenkins, Fastly wants to support everyone building and deploying open source at scale. That's why we support the open internet with #FastForward! 💖 Come learn how we can help: dev.to/fastly/fast-...
dev.to
Fast Forward: Let's build the good internet together
We have big news to share! ⏩ In three years of managing Fastly's open source program, I've...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 01/03/2024
On this ⏩ Fast Forward Friday ⏩ we’re excited to celebrate program member, Jenkins 🏆 The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project, at any scale! youtu.be/_MXtbjwsz3A
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Jenkins is the Way to build, test, and deploy
Before developer code goes out into the world to do great things, it needs to build, test, and deploy. You'd love to automate that effort so you can launch ...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 29/02/2024
The best approach for device detection combines signals from multiple places to enable the best understanding of device capabilities while respecting user privacy concerns. Learn how you can benefit from best practices with Fastly: www.fastly.com/blog/the-fut...
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The future of device detection on the web
As the future of device detection evolves to protect user data, client hints and other solutions rise to meet the needs of developers looking to deliver a better user experience.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 28/02/2024
In order to ensure that everyone can maintain reliable and trusted access to the features of a popular tool used for enhancing browser capabilities, we have identified a few alternatives. Read on to learn more: community.fastly.com/t/new-option...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 28/02/2024
Catch up on the Bytecode Alliance Plumber’s Summit where folks celebrated the release of WASI 0.2 and collaborated on next steps for the #WebAssembly ecosystem. bytecodealliance.org/articles/plu...
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Plumber’s Summit Day 1: Wasmtime and plugins, WASI 0.2.1, OCI artifacts and registry roadmap
The Bytecode Alliance Plumber’s Summit gathered in Raleigh, NC on January 31, 2024 to celebrate the release of WASI 0.2 and collaborate on the next steps forward for the WebAssembly ecosystem.The firs...
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 28/02/2024
Just like Tinkerbell, your boos make me stronger
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 28/02/2024
My boss told me not to say that we’re addressing Biden’s memory issues. www.fastly.com/blog/a-new-l...
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Your secure-by-design future is available today
The White House and Office of the National Cyber Director called for the adoption of memory safe languages, and we see a way for existing code to be more memory safe as well.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 27/02/2024
What 3 major lessons can all web builders/tinkerers/professionals learn from disaster response teams? @haubl.es explains in her recent talk from FOSDEM 24. ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fosd...
A slide is shown with a dark gray background. To the left a purple, gem shaped FOSDEM 2024 logo, to the right, the words in white read: "Learning from disaster response teams to save the internet" and below that in purple, Hannah Aubrey.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 26/02/2024
Do you know the difference between Advanced Rate Limiting and Edge Rate Limiting? Brute-force bad actors do, but luckily Brooks Cunningham explains how you can enforce more rate limiting decisions with Fastly’s edge platform! www.fastly.com/blog/advance...
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Advanced Rate Limiting on Fastly’s Edge
Use Advanced Rate Limiting with edge deployments of Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF for easier, stronger protection against fraud and abuse.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 23/02/2024
If you’re scratching your head like, “What’s Fast Forward?” 🤔 It’s our program designed to empower and support developers, open source projects, and nonprofits that share our vision of an internet that is free, open, and safe for all. 🙌 www.fastly.com/blog/fast-fo...
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Fast Forward: Let’s build the good internet together
We believe in an internet that is free, open, and safe for all. And we believe the only way to get there is if we all build and nurture it. Together.
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 23/02/2024
For this week’s ⏩ Fast Forward Friday ⏩ we’re highlighting the first ever Fast Forward member: www.ntppool.org/en/ ⏰ Used by hundreds of millions of systems around the world to provide highly accurate time, it’s the default “time server” for most major Linux distributions!
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pool.ntp.org: the internet cluster of ntp servers
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Fastly Devs @developer.fastly.com · 22/02/2024
💡 Did you know with a simple management API and secrets access in Compute SDKs, you can easily extend your current secrets management to the edge? Learn how: www.fastly.com/blog/announc...
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Announcing the Fastly Secret Store - Extending Edge Data with Edge Secrets
Fastly’s Secret Store is a global secrets management solution that helps you extend protected access to your origins, applications, and other resources on the Fastly edge.
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