Notices by Fastly Devs (devs@fastly.social)

It’s here – your #1 requested feature: free Fastly developer accounts! 🎉 Get yours now:

https://fastly.com/pricing

CDNs can feel obscure and intimidating when you're just trying to get your site or app online.

@jedisct1 can help. In this blog, he explains how a #CDN works, how #Fastly differs, and how to set up simple distributed caches and compute services.

https://00f.net/2024/05/07/what-is-a-cdn/

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. 🙌

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1000000000

Behind your browser, the #internet is people.

Repeatedly, we see what happens when the humanity and fatigue of people maintaining critical infrastructure are exploited.

Most recently, with the discovery of the #XZ hack.

We need to lend a hand by giving back to the projects we use.

Ideas about giving back (and how Fastly does) are in this blog from @anildash https://www.fastly.com/blog/what-can-you-actually-do-to-reduce-the-threat-of-hacks-like-xz

#HugOps to unpkg and to everyone in #OpenSource who goes through similar stresses — outages like this demonstrate modern digital infrastructure's fundamental fragility: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128276/open-source-unpkg-cdn-down

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! https://www.w3.org/

It's true, *a lot* of your favorite open source projects receive support from Fastly via #FastForward, our commitment to extending free services to the projects and organizations that move the good web forward ➡️

https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward

One of the coolest things about the #Fediverse is that it's built and kept running by volunteers, like @jorijn. Jorijn is a freelance #DevOps engineer who manages a friendly and welcoming general interest #Mastodon instance in his spare time.

We're proud to support #TootCommunity through #FastForward ⏩ learn about Jorijn's journey using Fastly for serving Toot.Community in his blog post:
https://jorijn.com/p/2d326661-5ee9-4d04-a788-29064eab6da3/

(Toot.Community is accepting sign-ups 🤗 https://toot.community/about)

The #openTF (https://opentf.org/) community is building an open, trustworthy, and community-driven future for #infrastructure maintenance and management — we've pledged to support registry bandwidth to turbocharge all their future growth.

And we're THRILLED! ⏩

We're proud to support everyone building the good internet through our #opensource initiative, #FastForward — if you think we can help your project grow and scale, come join our community! (fastly.com/forward)