Building Fastly's Platform for Scale: Continuous and Incremental
summary
Fastly describes building a platform that serves 1.8 trillion requests/day and 377 Tbps by applying eight architecture principles and concrete fixes: log streaming + opt‑in Insights removes customer storage pain, Smart Shielding and compliance regions replace exposed PoP configuration, a move from a single TLS manifest to consistent hashing shards scales certificates from ~3.5M to tens of millions and cuts rollout to under a minute, and UI micro‑frontends + compute using WebAssembly stitch teams’ components together successfully.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and Fastly overview
- 1:56Why scale requires architectural principles
- 4:44Customer data is their own
- 15:38Zero to one infinity scaling
- 29:23Scaling TLS certificates and control panel
- 32:55Build Fastly with Fastly
- 42:05Key lessons and Q&A
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