Fastly Devs

New tools for building agents We’re evolving our platform to help developers and enterprises build useful and reliable agents.

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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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...

“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...

Can your KV Store do 6ms reads? 👀

www.fastly.com/blog/be-amon...

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...

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-...

Challenge: Name one under-sung open source creator you know who deserves a shoutout 🏅

#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. 🙌

There’s a ton of gold in our public repos, and scandalously, few people know it’s there! 🫨

www.fastly.com/blog/open-so...

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...

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...

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.

A popular open-source content delivery network went down for hours It’s back up now.

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

“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...

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

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.

@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...

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...

Starting soon, join us!!

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.

“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...

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... Magical OpenAPI specifications with APIClarity – Fastly Developers Live #11

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...

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.

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...

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.

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!

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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...

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-...

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.

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...

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...