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...
The elusive perfect language switcher
Lots of websites get tripped up trying to offer users a choice of language. But a few simple steps...
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...
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...
Open source at Fastly is getting opener
Like most tech companies these days, Fastly is heavily reliant on open source software and the...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Filter PNGs for Acropalypse using Compute@Edge
Last week, Simon Aaarons and David Buchanan posted their discovery that images cropped using...
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....
We won best dev portal!
Yesterday the Fastly developer hub developer.fastly.com won Best Onboarding Experience at the 2022...
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...
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...