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

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. 00f.net/2024/05/07/w...

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...

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...

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...

“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

@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!!

“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 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 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...

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...

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-...

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...

This was rescheduled for next Monday, so mark your calendars 📆

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

Did you catch the Fastly shout out in this episode about the future of Python packaging? Thanks @hynek.me 🙌 youtube.com/clip/UgkxCm2...

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

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...

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.

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. 💚

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

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...

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...

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...

My boss told me not to say that we’re addressing Biden’s memory issues. www.fastly.com/blog/a-new-l...

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...

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...

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!

💡 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...

Learn how to quickly address CVEs using virtual patching and more with this helpful guide from the Fastly Security Research team! 😎 www.fastly.com/blog/patch-t...

Welcome to the first of many ⏩ Fast Forward Fridays ⏩ Each week we’re excited to highlight Fastly’s open-source support program members ✨ Our 50 million dollar commitment allows us to support countless, yet priceless experiences. www.fastly.com/fast-forward

If you’re in NYC or will be 2 weeks from today, we’re holding our first dev meetup of 2024 at the Fastly offices near Union Square. 🎉🎉🎉 👉 RSVP today and join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/fastly-con...

What are the best open source community codes of conduct that you’ve seen? 🤔 Tell us! community.fastly.com/t/help-fastl...

greetings star citizens, here’s my new cheat sheet / tl;dr guide to software resilience and security chaos engineering in blog post form: kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/s... it’s basically the cliff notes to my book to make it more accessible to lovely mortals trying to improve cybersecurity xx

Did you know that Fastly has a VS Code extension? Edit VCL (Varnish Configuration Language) locally to better create instant experiences! www.fastly.com/blog/syntax-...

Missed out on our Fastly Fiddle masterclass yesterday? Not to worry, you can catch up on this deep dive anytime you'd like! 😮‍💨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJTk...