As the world changed seemingly overnight at the onset of COVID-19, so too did the way we had to stay informed, engaged, and connected with one other. And that meant that online experiences became more critical than ever. At Fastly, we’re honored to have a front-row seat to watch the greatest innovators of our time as they use our edge cloud platform to face the challenges of the moment and rise to the top. CEO Joshua Bixby shares how our community took on the impossible, what patterns we’ve seen in their success, and how Fastly will continue empowering developers as they take on whatever tomorrow may bring.

We want to help you build confidently, securely, and quickly in the face of any challenge — and our aspiring product vision is designed with this in mind. Join our product and engineering leaders for an intimate tour of our roadmap, including an up-close look at how we’ll bring serverless and security to the edge with Compute@Edge and Secure@Edge. We’ll share how we’re building the future of the Fastly platform and what it means for you.

The developers behind USA TODAY take you behind the scenes of November 3, 2020, to relive the spikes, dips, and most-astounding stats they witnessed as the ballots rolled in and the headlines rolled out. Plus, hear how fronting USA TODAY’s origin with Fastly’s edge provides cover for their team to solve problems, make changes, and push code to production — without any downtime or loss of continuity of experience — on the biggest news night of the year.

In one way or another, this past year challenged all of us to do things differently. Our capacity planning and network teams were forced to reimagine our approach to network expansion as millions of people suddenly shifted to working, learning, shopping, and connecting online — all while operating as a fully-remote team. In this talk, we’ll share how we’re expanding our network ahead of new challenges — including the ones we can’t predict.

The understatement of 2020: Things move a lot faster than they used to. As DevOps, continuous delivery and Agile become commonplace for development teams, silos are breaking down for software delivery. And, teams are increasingly embracing secure DevOps as a path to faster and more secure delivery. In a lively fireside chat with two of the co-founders of Signal Sciences, now part of Fastly, we’ll explore how InfoSec and DevOps teams are coming together to approach practices, culture, and tools in a modern software development environment.

PayPal has become one of the most trusted, versatile payment apps on the web, proving even more crucial in a global economy with limited physical contact. Their goal? To provide the exact same secure, seamless experience to every one of their users around the globe — and they build their .com experience at the edge to ensure that consistency. Hear how caching dynamic logic helps them deliver billions of trusted transactions a day, and get a sneak peek of some of the team’s more experimental projects, including in-store contactless payments.

The world’s appetite for streaming — of both live and on-demand content — has become more voracious than ever before. This talk delves into three interconnected projects that exemplify CBS Interactive’s brand of high-velocity innovation in the video streaming arena: Airspace, which is set to scale up automation on thousands of CDN services; Propeller, the live-streaming platform that orchestrates all CBS live events; and Visor, an in-house analytics platform that delivers visibility from initial request to final playback.

Meet the pioneers who are building on Compute@Edge and helping shape the future of serverless. This crew of innovative thinkers and problem solvers are actively exploring how to harness the power of Compute@Edge to build the future of their applications — and dreaming up new possibilities in the process. We’ll discuss what they’ve built so far, how they’d like to see the product develop, and where they think serverless is headed.

When the world changes and events go on hold indefinitely, how can you be strategic with your team’s time and ensure that, when events are possible once again, your experience is in the best shape it’s ever been? You take on projects that enable your team to work smarter, not harder. Such is the case with this custom tool that allows Ticketmaster to better address observability. Lead CDN Engineer, Todd Jimenez, demonstrates how to consume the fire hose that is Fastly’s streaming metrics and make those insights easily accessible for more holistic, efficient problem solving — and lets you in on his repository so you can perform some metrics magic of your own.

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