The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023
Fastly recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave for Edge Development Platforms.
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Compute is an advanced serverless platform built on open standards that runs your code, in your favorite language, on our global edge network. It’s designed to address the requirements of modern application development by empowering customers to run code in a highly secure execution environment with microsecond cold start times, at scale, on the edge.
Developers use Compute to deliver more personalized experiences faster and innovate faster at the edge without introducing latency. Our award-winning developer portal makes it easy to get started with access to use cases, starter kits, tutorials, sample code, and more. We also offer guided introductions to our platform via CLI and simple management via our flexible APIs.
With Wasmtime, Compute offers code execution startup times in microseconds, not milliseconds. Developers can run complex code across multiple environments and can test with live logs plus debugging. This allows developers to rapidly deploy experiments to optimize customer touchpoints that drive higher conversion rates and boost revenue.
Avoid the challenges that typically come with outsourcing infrastructure, like VMs or containers, and reduce the operational burden on your teams. Take advantage of flexible deployment options including the Fastly web interface, the Fastly API, Fastly’s Terraform provider, or the Fastly CLI.
Developers enjoy ease of deployment with full support for Terraform and GitHub. Deploy Compute in any CI/CD environment using our RESTful API. DevOps teams can rapidly program, configure, and provision infrastructure on our platform, freeing app developers to focus on delivering features, without worrying about how to scale them.
Fastly’s platform architecture and our implementation of WebAssembly (Wasm) simplifies development by allowing developers to run code with high-performance, in flexible locations between their servers and their customers. Wasm is also more secure with each request/response running in an isolated runtime.
Fastly’s edge data solutions remove data location obstacles by making critical data available everywhere. Deliver modern applications fast and reduce costs by moving or replicating data to our global edge.
Compute provides a whole new level of serverless visibility with real-time and historic dashboards to give you insight into requests, CPU time, origin status, and much more. Our real-time logging capabilities provide an up to the second view into your services so you can find and fix issues fast.
Compute enables development teams to plug into their current tooling and processes (Terraform, GitHub, APIs, etc) to integrate seamlessly with the edge. Our developer hub and community forum help developers learn and grow with access to starter kits, tutorials, demos, sample code, and more.
“Our engineers can push code straight into staging, see their changes almost immediately, and roll the code into production confidently. A/B tests performed on our experimentation platform on the edge roll out within a minute, and we can add new features onto the website within a millisecond of running it—which is really, really fast.”
Davis Annez
Head of Engineering
"One of the reasons that we really like Fastly is Compute gives us some interesting opportunities to do more than we're doing now.”
Andrew Hartnett
VP, Engineering, New Relic
"Starting with Fastly was probably the fastest infrastructure onboarding we've ever done. In less than three weeks, we went from 'Hey, we should talk with someone at Fastly' to having Compute fully in production.”
Jake Loveless
CEO
Fastly recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave for Edge Development Platforms.
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Watch nowYour end users are demanding greater website and application performance, but performance is also a function of the developer experience. Dev teams need a platform that allows them to build and iterate quickly and safely - without compromise. Compute accomplishes this by providing developers the right tools to deliver a safe and engaging end-user experience without sacrificing cost, control, or performance.
Instantly scale across our global network. There is no need for developers to configure bursting controls or manage concurrency. Instances are automatically created based on the load of the incoming requests.
Our innovative isolation technology executes each platform request separately to significantly minimize your attack surface area, plus protection from the blast radius of buggy code or configuration mistakes from other users.
The Fastly CLI can run conventional serverless apps as Fastly compatible services locally for easy testing and debugging of code using the developer’s preferred integrated development environment.
Fastly supports multiple programming languages and empowers developers to use any language that can compile to WebAssembly by providing WebAssembly System interfaces (WASI) to our platform.
Instantly scale across our global network. There is no need for developers to configure bursting controls or manage concurrency. Instances are automatically created based on the load of the incoming requests.
Our innovative isolation technology executes each platform request separately to significantly minimize your attack surface area, plus protection from the blast radius of buggy code or configuration mistakes from other users.
The Fastly CLI can run conventional serverless apps as Fastly compatible services locally for easy testing and debugging of code using the developer’s preferred integrated development environment.
Fastly supports multiple programming languages and empowers developers to use any language that can compile to WebAssembly by providing WebAssembly System interfaces (WASI) to our platform.
Build and deploy code fast with our secure, performant, and scalable approach to serverless computing.