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Content delivery
A content delivery network (CDN) is a collection of servers in locations worldwide. A CDN can refer to many types of content delivery services, such as load balancing and video streaming.
What Is CDN Architecture?
Learn how CDN architecture works, from edge servers and caching to origin shielding, routing, and security, plus best practices for performance and resilience.
What Is Semantic Caching?
Learn how semantic caching reuses responses based on meaning to reduce LLM latency, compute load, and API costs, and how it differs from traditional caching.
What Is Object Storage?
Learn what object storage is, how it works, how it compares with file and block storage, and why it’s ideal for scalable cloud workloads.
Serverless computing
Serverless computing enables developers to write and deploy code without the burden of server management. Discover why developers are choosing serverless architecture.
Edge Computing Use Cases, Benefits, and Platforms
Explore enterprise edge computing use cases, key benefits, platform providers, and how edge cloud technology enables faster, more secure, and resilient applications.
Edge Computing vs. Cloud Computing
Discover the differences between edge computing and cloud computing. Learn use cases, benefits, and when to choose each for performance, scalability, and real-time processing.
What is edge AI?
Learn more about Edge AI, discover its benefits, and see its impact across industries.
Web application and API security
Learn how to secure your website, apps, and APIs from constantly evolving cyber-attacks with web application security.
What Are Web App Security Vulnerabilities?
Learn what web application security vulnerabilities are, common attack methods, and how organizations can identify, prevent, and mitigate them.
What Is GraphQL API Security?
Learn how GraphQL API security protects APIs from unauthorized access, costly queries, injection, bots, and abuse, plus security best practices.
What Is a Kubernetes WAF?
Learn how a Kubernetes WAF protects apps and APIs from application-layer threats, where to deploy it, and best practices for Kubernetes security.
Bots
A bot is an automated software application that performs repetitive tasks over a network. While some bots can be helpful (like a search engine crawler), others attack websites and apps.
Bot Protection Services for E-commerce
Learn how bot protection helps e-commerce businesses stop credential stuffing, scalping, inventory hoarding, scraping, and other automated threats.
What is bot traffic?
Learn how to identify good vs. bad bots, the risks of unmanaged bot traffic, and best practices to protect performance, security, and data
How to stop bot attacks: Guide to bots, bot attack types and how to stop them
Learn how to stop bot attacks, identify good vs. bad bots, and prevent credential stuffing, scraping, API abuse, and Layer 7 DDoS with advanced bot protection.
Application attacks and vulnerabilities
Web application attacks are malicious activities that target vulnerabilities in design and implementation, that may lead to unauthorized access and data theft.
What Is an HTTP Flood Attack?
Learn how HTTP flood attacks overwhelm websites and APIs, how GET and POST floods differ, and how to detect and mitigate these Layer 7 DDoS attacks.
What Is Broken Access Control?
Learn what broken access control is, how attackers exploit authorization flaws, and best practices for detecting and preventing unauthorized access.
How to Prevent a DDoS Attack
Discover the most effective DDoS prevention techniques, from traffic monitoring and rate limiting to WAFs, CDNs, and dedicated DDoS mitigation solutions.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by computer systems. This includes performing tasks such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, understanding natural language, and perception.
What Is an AI Firewall?
Learn what an AI firewall is, how it blocks prompt injection and jailbreaks, and why AI applications need protection beyond a traditional WAF.
What is AI Security?
Learn what AI security is, how it differs from traditional cybersecurity, and how to protect models, data, and AI agents from prompt injection and other threats.
What is AI agent monitoring
Learn how AI agent monitoring helps detect and control AI bots, crawlers, and automated traffic. Protect your infrastructure, data, and content from unwanted access.
Fastly How-to Tutorials
Find step-by-step Fastly tutorials and implementation guidance for configuring CDN, security, edge computing, and networking solutions across every stage of deployment.
GuidesHow-To Guides and Tutorials
Explore step-by-step tutorials, implementation guides, and technical how-to articles designed to help you get the most out of Fastly products, services, and solutions.
How to Stop a DDOS Attack
Learn how DDoS protection works and discover the proactive steps you can take to stay safe.
Bot Protection: Guide to bots, bot attack types and how to stop them
Learn how to stop bot attacks, identify good vs. bad bots, and prevent credential stuffing, scraping, API abuse, and Layer 7 DDoS with advanced bot protection
Built with Fastly: AI Growth
Built with Fastly is a growing collection of working demos and code examples that show developers and AI coding tools what’s possible on Fastly. Explore real-world patterns for building AI applications, MCP integrations, real-time experiences, edge-native commerce, personalization, security, authentication, storage, and more.
Edge-Native Ecommerce Shopping Cart
Explore a fully edge-native shopping cart built with Fastly Compute that eliminates origin dependencies, accelerates cart updates, and delivers low-latency ecommerce experiences at scale.
AI Contextual Video Overlay Demo
Learn how to inject AI-generated, context-aware overlays into streaming video using Fastly Compute and edge storage without impacting playback performance.
Real-Time Sports Results & Personalized Updates
Build personalized sports dashboards that deliver live scores, standings, and tournament updates using Fastly's instant cache invalidation and edge computing.
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