Andrew Betts

Andrew Betts @triblondon

About: Elected to W3C TAG. Ex Fastly. Also still love the FT. I will sort your pens in length order while you’re not looking. 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🍸

Location:
London, UK
Joined:
Aug 16, 2022

Andrew Betts
articles - 14 total

Build "For you" recommendations using AI on Fastly!

Forget the hype; where is AI delivering real value? Let's use edge computing to harness the power of...

Learn More 12 0Aug 7 '24

The elusive perfect language switcher

Lots of websites get tripped up trying to offer users a choice of language. But a few simple steps...

Learn More 4 0Jul 23 '24

Is purging still the hardest problem in computer science?

One of the most common reasons for customers sending support tickets to Fastly is for help with...

Learn More 6 0May 1 '24

11 things I do in every Fastly service I create

The variety of things you can do in edge computing these days is huge, and Fastly customers are...

Learn More 12 0Mar 26 '24

Open source at Fastly is getting opener

Like most tech companies these days, Fastly is heavily reliant on open source software and the...

Learn More 17 2Mar 15 '24

The crucial difference between robots.txt and x-robots-tag

“Robots” directives control how search engine crawlers are allowed to index your website, and are one...

Learn More 6 0Nov 27 '23

Visualize your Fastly traffic on a real time globe using Glitch

On the Fastly developer hub, we recently added a visualization of the traffic flowing across the...

Learn More 7 0Aug 9 '23

Who kept the bots out? Stopping content being harvested by AI

AI-powered content generation has exploded in popularity recently, with bots like ChatGPT and Bard,...

Learn More 13 0Jun 22 '23

Updating Monaco broke Fastly Fiddle: here's how I solved it with useCallback in React

My colleague Dora and I recently updated Fastly Fiddle's dependencies, and we suddenly found that...

Learn More 8 0Apr 19 '23

Filter PNGs for Acropalypse using Compute@Edge

Last week, Simon Aaarons and David Buchanan posted their discovery that images cropped using...

Learn More 6 0Mar 23 '23

JavaScript support hits 1.0 milestone on Compute@Edge

When Compute@Edge was launched, we talked about why we didn’t fully support JavaScript at that time....

Learn More 3 0Dec 19 '22

We won best dev portal!

Yesterday the Fastly developer hub developer.fastly.com won Best Onboarding Experience at the 2022...

Learn More 7 1Dec 16 '22

Ruby, meet Compute@Edge! Building on Fastly with Yuta Saito

At RubyKaigi in September, Yuta Saito presented a remarkable new project allowing Ruby to be compiled...

Learn More 4 0Dec 9 '22

Fastly fiddle turns 5 with a bunch of new features

If you are a Fastly customer and you write code at the edge, you've probably used our Fiddle tool to...

Learn More 7 0Nov 16 '22