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

New tools for building agents

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

openai.com

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

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 2y ago

We’ve been watching the Watch Duty team do absolutely *unbelievable* technical work all week (they’re members of our Fast Forward open source program), handling a surge of millions of people trying to see where the fires are in real time. There are still people who do such good on the internet.

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...

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.

gizmodo.com

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...

A popular open-source content delivery network went down for hours

It’s back up now.

theverge.com

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...

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

eff.org

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...

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.

thenewstack.io

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...

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.com

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 Devs@developer.fastly.com · 2y ago

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...

“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...

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.

tines.com

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...

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...

youtube.com

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...

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.

thenewstack.io

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...

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.

events.linuxfoundation.org

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-...

Open source at Fastly is getting opener

Like most tech companies these days, Fastly is heavily reliant on open source software and the...

dev.to

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 📆

Fastly Devs@developer.fastly.com · 2y ago

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...

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...