Fastly

Fastly, Inc. is an American cloud computing 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]

Fastly, Inc.
Type of businessPublic
Traded asNYSE: FSLY (Class A)
FoundedMarch 2011 (2011-03)
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
Founder(s)Artur Bergman
Key people
IndustryInternet
Services
URLfastly.com

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][5]

In February 2020, CEO and Founder Artur Bergman announced that he will be stepping down as CEO of Fastly. Company president Joshua Bixby will replace Bergman as the company's CEO.[6][7]

Acquisitions

On April 17, 2014 Fastly acquired CDN Sumo, an Austin, Texas-based online content delivery network for PaaS-based systems.[8]

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.[9] 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 (DDoS) attack protection, bot mitigation, and a web application firewall.[10] Fastly web application firewall uses the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) alongside its own ruleset.

Technology

Fastly is built on Varnish, an open source HTTP accelerator.[11] Fastly also supports open source and non-profit projects — including Drupal, The Tor Project, Hackage, HashiCorp, Python, Ruby, and DonorsChoose.org — by providing free delivery services.[12] An example includes the delivery of Tor browser updates.[13]

References
  1. "Fastly Raises $75M For Its Real-Time CDN". TechCrunch.
  2. "Fastly grabs $40M on its quest to build a big, cool content-delivery network". VentureBeat.
  3. "Google Partners With CloudFlare, Fastly, Level 3 And Highwinds To Help Developers Push Google Cloud Content To Users Faster". TechCrunch.
  4. Kepes, Ben (April 18, 2017). "In the need for speed, Fastly goes all the way to the edge". Computerworld. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  5. "Fastly Releases Edge Cloud Platform". Bizty.
  6. Hernbroth, Megan. "'I like being in the trenches': Fastly CEO steps down after disappointing market debuts, citing his 'true strengths and passions' as a developer instead of company leader". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  7. "Fastly Announces Leadership Transition". Bloomberg.com. 2020-02-20. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  8. "CDN Sumo". CrunchBase.
  9. "How The New York Times Handled Unprecedented Election-Night Traffic Spike". DataCenter Knowledge. April 18, 2017.
  10. "Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networks". TechCrunch.
  11. "CDN Startup Fastly Raises $40M Series C". DataCenter Knowledge. 16 September 2014.
  12. "Open Source". Fastly Website.
  13. "The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online".

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