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It was a low-code "make your own website" platform. The sort of thing that was popular before myspace/facebook/medium style walled gardens took over.
Fastly bought it because they were/are desperate to pivot away from CDN, since CDN has negative margins.
An edge cloud does seem ideal for national live events though
OK, you almost had me believing you but "edge cloud" is 100% Fastly marketing speech. Any time I see somebody mention using Fastly, they turn out to be a Fastly employee. You've posted this demo three times already, give it a rest.
OP works for Fastly, they're pushing a lot of "demos" like this in the hopes that one of them goes viral because nobody is using their serverless platform. Don't waste your time adding engagement to it, all they want is a few threads mentioning Fastly that don't mention the June 8th incident from 2021.
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.
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.