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Fastly, Inc. is an American cloud services provider. Fastly's edge cloud platform provides a content delivery network, Internet security services, load balancing, and video & streaming services. Fastly’s headquarters are in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Denver, New York, Portland, London, and Tokyo..[1]
History
Fastly was founded in 2011 by Artur Bergman. Prior to founding Fastly, he was the Chief Technology Officer at Wikia.[2] In September 2015, Google partnered with Fastly and other CDN providers to offer CDN services to its users.[3] In April 2017, Fastly launched its edge cloud platform along with image optimization, load balancing, and a web application firewall (WAF).[4]</ref>[5]
Acquisitions
On April 17, 2014 Fastly acquired CDN Sumo, an Austin, Texas-based online content delivery network for PaaS-based systems.[6]
Services
Fastly describes their network as an edge cloud platform, which is designed to help developers extend their core cloud infrastructure to the edge of the network, closer to users.[7] The Fastly edge cloud platform includes their content delivery network, image optimization, video & streaming, cloud security, and load balancing services.[4]
Fastly's cloud security services include distributed denial of service of service (DDoS) attack protection, bot mitigation, and a web application firewall.[8] Fastly web application firewall uses the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) alongside its own ruleset.
Fastly’s also provides a Managed CDN which combines a customer’s existing network infrastructure with Fastly’s content delivery network.[9]
Partnerships
Notable Fastly partners include Google Cloud Platform[3], Heroku[10], Magento[11], and SoftBank.[12]
Open source
Fastly is built on Varnish, the open source HTTP accelerator.[13] Fastly supports open source and non-profit projects — including Drupal, HashiCorp, Python, Ruby, and DonorsChoose.org — by providing free delivery services.[14]
Customers
Notable Fastly customers include The New York Times[15], Spotify[9], Pinterest, Airbnb, Ticketmaster[16], and BuzzFeed.[17]
References
- ^ "Fastly Raises $75M For Its Real-Time CDN". TechCrunch.
- ^ "Fastly grabs $40M on its quest to build a big, cool content-delivery network". VentureBeat.
- ^ a b "Google Partners With CloudFlare, Fastly, Level 3 And Highwinds To Help Developers Push Google Cloud Content To Users Faster". TechCrunch.
- ^ a b Kepes, Ben (April 18, 2017). "In the need for speed, Fastly goes all the way to the edge". Computerworld. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
- ^ "Fastly Releases Edge Cloud Platform". Bizty.
- ^ "CDN Sumo". CrunchBase.
- ^ "How The New York Times Handled Unprecedented Election-Night Traffic Spike". DataCenter Knowledge.
- ^ "Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networks". TechCrunch.
- ^ a b "Fastly To Capitalize On DIY Trend With New Managed CDN Offering". StreamingMedia.com.
- ^ "Fastly". Heroku Documentation.
- ^ "Fastly". Magento Partners.
- ^ "Fastly Partners With SoftBank to Enter Japanese Market". Yahoo! Finance.
- ^ "CDN Startup Fastly Raises $40M Series C". DataCenter Knowledge.
- ^ "Open Source". Fastly Website.
- ^ "Caching out of Hadoop: How New York Times Embraces New Technology". TheNewStack.
- ^ "Fastly raises another $50 million for its content delivery networking technology". TechCrunch.
- ^ "Digital media was the real winner on Election Night". Fast Company.
Further reading
- Wehner, Mike (June 28, 2017). "It's not just you: CNN, New York Times, Reddit, and other sites are all down". Boy Genius Report. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
{{cite web}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - "New York Times goes from data centres to cloud". The Stack. April 19, 2017. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
External links
Category:Content delivery network Category:Companies based in San Francisco Category:Internet companies of the United States Category:Companies established in 2011 Category:2011 establishments in California Category:Internet security Category:DDoS mitigation companies