Fastly Instant Purge: Under 150ms for over a Decade

https://www.fastly.com/blog/fastly-instant-purge-under-150ms-for-over-a-decade

3 4 2 years ago

This blogpost is bitter and weird. Cloudflare is announcing an improvement in their platform, and Fastly is responding with a weird flex about losing their competitive advantage?

As a customer, I don't really care which vendor had the edge 10 years ago, I just want to compare features today. Does Fastly support WebSockets yet? This just highlights how little Fastly is doing recently.

jkarneges2• 2 years ago

Does Fastly support WebSockets yet?

It does! Can be served at the edge or passed through to origin.

KeychainPirate2• 2 years ago

According to the docs WebSockets are still incompatible with WAF and Origin Shield...

https://docs.fastly.com/products/websockets

If I'm not using Origin Shield, and I can't use WAF, why would I bother with Fastly when AWS Cloudfront is a fraction of the cost (And has WebSockets): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...

I just don't understand what Fastly has been doing for the past few years, it seems like they're just selling bandwidth these days.

Fastly Instant Purge: Under 150ms for over a Decade

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