Mitigating Security Threats with Fastly - Joe Williams at Fastly Altitude 2015

Nginx is a popular tool for load balancing and caching. It offers high performance, reliability and flexibility for load balancing through features like upstream modules, health checks, and request distribution methods. It can also improve response times and handle traffic spikes through caching static content and supporting techniques like stale caching.

Fastly Altitude - June 25, 2015. Chief SpeedCurver Steve Souders explains how design and web performance are more interconnected than ever before. Users want a fast website with a rich design, but sometimes the interplay between design and performance feels like a fixed sum game: one side's gain is the other side's loss. Design and performance are indeed connected, but it's more like the yin and yang. They aren't opposing forces, but instead complement each other. Bringing these processes together produces experiences that are rich and fast. Video from the talk: http://fastly.us/Altitude2015_Design-Performance Steve's bio: Steve Souders is a co-founder at SpeedCurve, where he develops web performance services. His book, High Performance Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance; it was #1 in Amazon's Computer and Internet bestsellers. His follow-up book, Even Faster Web Sites, provides performance tips for today's Web 2.0 applications. Steve is the creator of many performance tools and services including YSlow, the HTTP Archive, Cuzillion, Jdrop, SpriteMe, ControlJS, and Browserscope. He serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O'Reilly, and is co-founder of the Firebug Working Group.

Paolo Alvarado Customer Support Engineer, Fastly at Altitude 2016 Customer Support Engineer Paolo Alvarado discusses various useful features of advanced Varnish Configuration Language (VCL).

Modern progressive web applications are complex pieces of software running in the browser. Fastly offers unparalleled control over the way the bytes fly from your servers to the user, enabling many of the features of advanced progressive web apps to truly shine. This talk will show how these latest web technologies can best take advantage of smarts in the network to deliver your web app at top speed.

In this workshop, we’ll reveal how improving your caching strategy speeds up page loads with little effort. We’ll follow an HTTP request through Fastly and deep dive into cache hit ratios. In practical sessions, we’ll explain how to optimize your hit rate and still serve fresh content to users. We’ll cover caching headers, invalidation and the effect on user-perceived loading experience.

In the first part of this workshop, we’ll introduce you to the core concepts needed to deploy a new version of your Fastly service via the API and the benefits of automating this process. We’ll then advance together building a continuous deployment pipeline around an example Fastly config. Combining Fastly’s 5-second deploys, API control, and some open-source tooling (Travis, Terraform), attendees will contribute live changes and see their results in the demo. We’ll also gain some tips and tricks on along the way, such as how to manage multiple environments (staging, prod), Custom VCL, and secrets.

Fastly delivers more than a million log events per second. Setting it is up is easy, but there are many features you might not be using to their full extent. This workshop will cover setting up logging to various endpoints, dealing with structured data, and getting real-time insights into your customers’ behavior.

NGINX is a well kept secret of high performance web service. Many people know NGINX as an Open Source web server that delivers static content blazingly fast. But, it has many more features to help accelerate delivery of bits to your end users even in more complicated application environments. In this talk we'll cover several things that most developers or administrators could implement to further delight their end users.

Nginx is a lightweight web server that was created in 2002 to address the C10K problem of scaling to 10,000 concurrent connections. It uses an asynchronous event-driven architecture that uses less memory and CPU than traditional multi-threaded models. Key features include acting as a reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server. Nginx has grown in popularity due to its high performance, low memory usage, simple configuration, and rich feature set including modules for streaming, caching, and dynamic content.