Simon Wistow (Fastly) interviewed at Fluent 2014
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Fastly explains it caches whole pages including API responses and feeds rather than only assets, claims measurable speed and lower bounce rates for customers like The Guardian and Shopify, and reports handling about 650,000 requests per second. Recent moves include DreamHost switching to Fastly and hiring performance figures such as Steve Souders joining the team. Focus areas are global POP expansion, mobile optimization for events like the World Cup and Olympics, and cautious exploration of IoT and transient real‑time caching.
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