Fastly VP of Technology Hooman Beheshti gives a keynote on The Future of CDNs at Software Practice Advancement Conference 2015.
More resources: http://spaconference.org/spa2015/uploads/resources/SPA%202015%20KEYNOTE%20AND%20DIVERSIONS.pdf
Measuring CDN performance and why you're doing it wrongFastly
Integrating content delivery networks into your application infrastructure can offer many benefits, including major performance improvements for your applications. So understanding how CDNs perform — especially for your specific use cases — is vital. However, testing for measurement is complicated and nuanced, and results in metric overload and confusion. It's becoming increasingly important to understand measurement techniques, what they're telling you, and how to apply them to your actual content.
In this session, we'll examine the challenges around measuring CDN performance and focus on the different methods for measurement. We'll discuss what to measure, important metrics to focus on, and different ways that numbers may mislead you.
More specifically, we'll cover:
Different techniques for measuring CDN performance
Differentiating between network footprint and object delivery performance
Choosing the right content to test
Core metrics to focus on and how each impacts real traffic
Understanding cache hit ratio, why it can be misleading, and how to measure for it
Measuring CDN performance and why you're doing it wrongFastly
Integrating content delivery networks into your application infrastructure can offer many benefits, including major performance improvements for your applications. So understanding how CDNs perform — especially for your specific use cases — is vital. However, testing for measurement is complicated and nuanced, and can result in metric overload and confusion. It’s becoming increasingly important to understand measurement techniques, what they’re telling you, and how to apply them to your actual content.
Benchmarking NGINX for Accuracy and ResultsNGINX, Inc.
View full webinar on demand at http://bit.ly/nginxbenchmarking
Whether you’re doing performance testing or planning for infrastructure needs, benchmarking can be a big deal. Join us for this webinar where we cover NGINX benchmarking best practices, including:
- the test environment
- configuring NGINX
- using benchmarking tools
- and more!
You’ll learn how to approach doing benchmarks so that you obtain results that are more accurate, better understood, and do a better job of addressing the needs of your project.
Supercharge Application Delivery to Satisfy UsersNGINX, Inc.
Users expect websites and applications to be quick and reliable. A slow user experience can have a significant impact on your business. Join us for this webinar where we will show you a number of ways you can use NGINX and other tools and techniques to supercharge your application delivery, including:
- Client Caching
- Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
- OCSP stapling
- Dynamic Content Caching
View full webinar on demand at http://bit.ly/nginxsupercharge
Content caching is one of the most effective ways to dramatically improve the performance of a web site. In this webinar, we’ll deep-dive into NGINX’s caching abilities and investigate the architecture used, debugging techniques and advanced configuration. By the end of the webinar, you’ll be well equipped to configure NGINX to cache content exactly as you need.
View full webinar on demand at http://nginx.com/resources/webinars/content-caching-nginx/
Reverse proxy & web cache with NGINX, HAProxy and VarnishEl Mahdi Benzekri
Discover the very wide world of web servers, in addition to the basic web deliverance fonctionnality, we will cover the reverse proxy, the resource caching and the load balancing.
Nginx and apache HTTPD will be used as web server and reverse proxy, and to illustrate some caching features we will also present varnish a powerful caching server.
To introduce load balancers we will compare between Nginx and Haproxy.
October 14 2009 New York Web Performance Group Session.
Rusty Conover is talking about his experience at InfoGears building Content Delivery Network (CDN) on top of Amazon EC2
Measuring CDN performance and why you're doing it wrongFastly
Integrating content delivery networks into your application infrastructure can offer many benefits, including major performance improvements for your applications. So understanding how CDNs perform — especially for your specific use cases — is vital. However, testing for measurement is complicated and nuanced, and results in metric overload and confusion. It's becoming increasingly important to understand measurement techniques, what they're telling you, and how to apply them to your actual content.
In this session, we'll examine the challenges around measuring CDN performance and focus on the different methods for measurement. We'll discuss what to measure, important metrics to focus on, and different ways that numbers may mislead you.
More specifically, we'll cover:
Different techniques for measuring CDN performance
Differentiating between network footprint and object delivery performance
Choosing the right content to test
Core metrics to focus on and how each impacts real traffic
Understanding cache hit ratio, why it can be misleading, and how to measure for it
Measuring CDN performance and why you're doing it wrongFastly
Integrating content delivery networks into your application infrastructure can offer many benefits, including major performance improvements for your applications. So understanding how CDNs perform — especially for your specific use cases — is vital. However, testing for measurement is complicated and nuanced, and can result in metric overload and confusion. It’s becoming increasingly important to understand measurement techniques, what they’re telling you, and how to apply them to your actual content.
Benchmarking NGINX for Accuracy and ResultsNGINX, Inc.
View full webinar on demand at http://bit.ly/nginxbenchmarking
Whether you’re doing performance testing or planning for infrastructure needs, benchmarking can be a big deal. Join us for this webinar where we cover NGINX benchmarking best practices, including:
- the test environment
- configuring NGINX
- using benchmarking tools
- and more!
You’ll learn how to approach doing benchmarks so that you obtain results that are more accurate, better understood, and do a better job of addressing the needs of your project.
Supercharge Application Delivery to Satisfy UsersNGINX, Inc.
Users expect websites and applications to be quick and reliable. A slow user experience can have a significant impact on your business. Join us for this webinar where we will show you a number of ways you can use NGINX and other tools and techniques to supercharge your application delivery, including:
- Client Caching
- Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
- OCSP stapling
- Dynamic Content Caching
View full webinar on demand at http://bit.ly/nginxsupercharge
Content caching is one of the most effective ways to dramatically improve the performance of a web site. In this webinar, we’ll deep-dive into NGINX’s caching abilities and investigate the architecture used, debugging techniques and advanced configuration. By the end of the webinar, you’ll be well equipped to configure NGINX to cache content exactly as you need.
View full webinar on demand at http://nginx.com/resources/webinars/content-caching-nginx/
Reverse proxy & web cache with NGINX, HAProxy and VarnishEl Mahdi Benzekri
Discover the very wide world of web servers, in addition to the basic web deliverance fonctionnality, we will cover the reverse proxy, the resource caching and the load balancing.
Nginx and apache HTTPD will be used as web server and reverse proxy, and to illustrate some caching features we will also present varnish a powerful caching server.
To introduce load balancers we will compare between Nginx and Haproxy.
October 14 2009 New York Web Performance Group Session.
Rusty Conover is talking about his experience at InfoGears building Content Delivery Network (CDN) on top of Amazon EC2
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.
When people hear the word NGINX, they usually associate the open source platform for its popular adoption as an HTTP web server or load balancer. What a lot of people don't know is the vast amount of powerful features contained in the platform that can be used to build an HTTP caching layer and why NGINX is often used as a framework to build powerful, scalable and highly available content delivery networks. In this talk we will dive into each unique NGINX directive and its configuration options that are available. We will show different architectural approaches that can be used to build a highly available HTTP content cache layer. We will show various other NGINX configurations that can be critical to your NGINX deployment. Walking away from this presentation, attendees will have the knowledge required to configure basic and advanced caching of their NGINX servers.
Dynamic Content Acceleration: Lightning Fast Web Apps with Amazon CloudFront ...Amazon Web Services
Traditionally, content delivery networks (CDNs) were known to accelerate static content. Amazon CloudFront has come a long way and now supports delivery of entire websites that include dynamic and static content. In this session, we introduce you to CloudFront’s dynamic delivery features that help improve the performance, scalability, and availability of your website while helping you lower your costs. We talk about architectural patterns such as SSL termination, close proximity connection termination, origin offload with keep-alive connections, and last-mile latency improvement. Also learn how to take advantage of Amazon Route 53's health check, automatic failover, and latency-based routing to build highly available web apps on AWS.
Efficient cluster resource management by using Cook and Mesos / Li Jin (Two S...Ontico
Managing resources (cpu, memory, network io) in compute clusters is difficult. Regardless of running Hadoop, Spark or customized workloads, we face the challenge of scheduling a mixture of long running, short running workload with different resource requirements and deadlines in a compute cluster. The difficulty often comes in when we try to maximize cluster utilization and share resources properly among workloads at the same time.
This talk presents a solution to this problem by using two cutting-edge open source technology — Cook (https://github.com/twosigma/cook) and Apache Mesos (http://mesos.apache.org). At Two Sigma, we use Cook and Mesos to manage our entire compute clusters and run tens of thousands of compute workload every day. By using Cook and Mesos, we are able to efficiently utilize the compute cluster and achieve high user satisfaction.
In this talk, we will discuss the idea behind our algorithm, the design of the system and show how Cook and Mesos can be used to solve cluster resource sharing problem for other people.
Scale your PHP web app to get ready for the peak season.
Useful information you might want to consider before scaling your application.
Slides as presented in my talk at PHP conference Australia in April 2016
Building a Global-Scale Multi-Tenant Cloud Platform on AWS and Docker: Lesson...Felix Gessert
In this talk we share the lessons learned while building out the Baqend Cloud platform on AWS and Docker. Baqend’s AWS-hosted architecture consists of a caching CDN-Layer, global and local load balancing, a group of REST and Node.js servers and a database cluster with Redis and MongoDB. As customers have their own set of containerized REST and Node servers, we needed a cluster that on the one hand is horizontally scalable and on the other hand easily manageable and fault-tolerant from an operational perspective. Today there are at least 4 popular systems that claim to support this:
- Kubernetes
- Apache Mesos
- Docker Swarm
- AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Thinking that ECS would certainly be the easiest option on AWS, we started building our cluster on it. We quickly came to realize that while ECS was astoundingly stable and easy to use there were inherent limitations that could not be worked around. An old Docker version, missing network isolation, no means of parameterizing task and forced memory constraints are major limitations of ECS we will talk about. Seeing the daunting operational overhead of running Kubernetes or Mesos in practice we turned to Docker’s native clustering solution Swarm. We will present how Swarm works with both Docker and AWS and highlight the advantages and downsides compared to Amazon’s ECS.
Extending your applications to the edge with CDNsSergeyChernyshev
CDNs have traditionally been considered "black box" services with lack of control and visibility. Modern applications and DevOps culture require more flexibility, customization, and insight into your infrastructure, and how content is being served. We've grown accustomed to using services through programmable interfaces with instant feedback and full visibility, and CDNs should not be exempt from these requirements. In this talk, we'll explore how you can use content delivery networks as an extension of your applications, with full control, flexibility, and transparency at the network edge.
Hooman Beheshti is VP of Technology at Fastly, where he develops web performance services for the world's smartest CDN platform. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, Hooman helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware and has held senior technology positions with Strangeloop Networks and Crescendo Networks. He has worked on the core technologies that make the Internet work faster for nearly 20 years and is an expert and frequent speaker on the subjects of load balancing, application performance, and content delivery networks.
CDNs have traditionally been considered "black box" services with lack of control and visibility. Modern applications and DevOps culture require more flexibility, customization, and insight into your infrastructure, and how content is being served. In this talk, we'll explore how you can use content delivery networks as an extension of your applications, with full control, flexibility, and transparency at the network edge.
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.
When people hear the word NGINX, they usually associate the open source platform for its popular adoption as an HTTP web server or load balancer. What a lot of people don't know is the vast amount of powerful features contained in the platform that can be used to build an HTTP caching layer and why NGINX is often used as a framework to build powerful, scalable and highly available content delivery networks. In this talk we will dive into each unique NGINX directive and its configuration options that are available. We will show different architectural approaches that can be used to build a highly available HTTP content cache layer. We will show various other NGINX configurations that can be critical to your NGINX deployment. Walking away from this presentation, attendees will have the knowledge required to configure basic and advanced caching of their NGINX servers.
Dynamic Content Acceleration: Lightning Fast Web Apps with Amazon CloudFront ...Amazon Web Services
Traditionally, content delivery networks (CDNs) were known to accelerate static content. Amazon CloudFront has come a long way and now supports delivery of entire websites that include dynamic and static content. In this session, we introduce you to CloudFront’s dynamic delivery features that help improve the performance, scalability, and availability of your website while helping you lower your costs. We talk about architectural patterns such as SSL termination, close proximity connection termination, origin offload with keep-alive connections, and last-mile latency improvement. Also learn how to take advantage of Amazon Route 53's health check, automatic failover, and latency-based routing to build highly available web apps on AWS.
Efficient cluster resource management by using Cook and Mesos / Li Jin (Two S...Ontico
Managing resources (cpu, memory, network io) in compute clusters is difficult. Regardless of running Hadoop, Spark or customized workloads, we face the challenge of scheduling a mixture of long running, short running workload with different resource requirements and deadlines in a compute cluster. The difficulty often comes in when we try to maximize cluster utilization and share resources properly among workloads at the same time.
This talk presents a solution to this problem by using two cutting-edge open source technology — Cook (https://github.com/twosigma/cook) and Apache Mesos (http://mesos.apache.org). At Two Sigma, we use Cook and Mesos to manage our entire compute clusters and run tens of thousands of compute workload every day. By using Cook and Mesos, we are able to efficiently utilize the compute cluster and achieve high user satisfaction.
In this talk, we will discuss the idea behind our algorithm, the design of the system and show how Cook and Mesos can be used to solve cluster resource sharing problem for other people.
Scale your PHP web app to get ready for the peak season.
Useful information you might want to consider before scaling your application.
Slides as presented in my talk at PHP conference Australia in April 2016
Building a Global-Scale Multi-Tenant Cloud Platform on AWS and Docker: Lesson...Felix Gessert
In this talk we share the lessons learned while building out the Baqend Cloud platform on AWS and Docker. Baqend’s AWS-hosted architecture consists of a caching CDN-Layer, global and local load balancing, a group of REST and Node.js servers and a database cluster with Redis and MongoDB. As customers have their own set of containerized REST and Node servers, we needed a cluster that on the one hand is horizontally scalable and on the other hand easily manageable and fault-tolerant from an operational perspective. Today there are at least 4 popular systems that claim to support this:
- Kubernetes
- Apache Mesos
- Docker Swarm
- AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Thinking that ECS would certainly be the easiest option on AWS, we started building our cluster on it. We quickly came to realize that while ECS was astoundingly stable and easy to use there were inherent limitations that could not be worked around. An old Docker version, missing network isolation, no means of parameterizing task and forced memory constraints are major limitations of ECS we will talk about. Seeing the daunting operational overhead of running Kubernetes or Mesos in practice we turned to Docker’s native clustering solution Swarm. We will present how Swarm works with both Docker and AWS and highlight the advantages and downsides compared to Amazon’s ECS.
Extending your applications to the edge with CDNsSergeyChernyshev
CDNs have traditionally been considered "black box" services with lack of control and visibility. Modern applications and DevOps culture require more flexibility, customization, and insight into your infrastructure, and how content is being served. We've grown accustomed to using services through programmable interfaces with instant feedback and full visibility, and CDNs should not be exempt from these requirements. In this talk, we'll explore how you can use content delivery networks as an extension of your applications, with full control, flexibility, and transparency at the network edge.
Hooman Beheshti is VP of Technology at Fastly, where he develops web performance services for the world's smartest CDN platform. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, Hooman helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware and has held senior technology positions with Strangeloop Networks and Crescendo Networks. He has worked on the core technologies that make the Internet work faster for nearly 20 years and is an expert and frequent speaker on the subjects of load balancing, application performance, and content delivery networks.
CDNs have traditionally been considered "black box" services with lack of control and visibility. Modern applications and DevOps culture require more flexibility, customization, and insight into your infrastructure, and how content is being served. In this talk, we'll explore how you can use content delivery networks as an extension of your applications, with full control, flexibility, and transparency at the network edge.
Caching the Uncacheable: Leveraging Your CDN to Cache Dynamic ContentFastly
June 25, 2014. Hooman Beheshti, VP Technology at Fastly, discusses how using a real-time, modern CDN that provides instant cache invalidation and real-time analytics allows for instantaneous control over dynamic content caching. In this session, he looks at the challenges CDNs face with dynamic content and how you can use programmatic means to fully integrate your applications with your CDN.
(Surge 2014) This is a longer version of our Velocity 2014 slides around caching dynamic content. Topic: In the past, CDNs have been used to cache and distribute static objects. But issues around invalidation, staleness, and lack of visibility have prevented us from using CDNs to fully leverage the benefits of caching when it comes to dynamic content. Today, using a real-time, modern CDN that provides instant cache invalidation and real-time analytics allows for instantaneous control over dynamic content caching.
Dynamic Content Acceleration: Lightning Fast Web Apps with Amazon CloudFront ...Amazon Web Services
Traditionally, content delivery networks (CDNs) were known to accelerate static content. Amazon CloudFront has come a long way and now supports delivery of entire websites that include dynamic and static content. In this session, we introduce you to CloudFront’s dynamic delivery features that help improve the performance, scalability, and availability of your website while helping you lower your costs. We talk about architectural patterns such as SSL termination, close proximity connection termination, origin offload with keep-alive connections, and last-mile latency improvement. Also learn how to take advantage of Amazon Route 53's health check, automatic failover, and latency-based routing to build highly available web apps on AWS.
Dynamic Content Acceleration: Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 (ARC309) ...Amazon Web Services
Traditionally, content delivery networks (CDNs) were known to accelerate static content. Amazon CloudFront has come a long way and now supports delivery of entire websites that include dynamic and static content. In this session, we introduce you to CloudFront’s dynamic delivery features that help improve the performance, scalability, and availability of your website while helping you lower your costs. We talk about architectural patterns such as SSL termination, close proximity connection termination, origin offload with keep-alive connections, and last-mile latency improvement. Also learn how to take advantage of Amazon Route 53's health check, automatic failover, and latency-based routing to build highly available web apps on AWS.
In this talk, we'll cover all the great built-in rails caching options and best practices for getting the most out of these. Then we'll talk about dynamic content, why it's traditionally not cached, and how you can can cache it using this thing called "edge caching".
Welcome to the future, where you can cache the uncacheable.
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.
Explain what is a CDN, its advantages, and how to exploit caching on the internet. I cover Akamai in specific, along practices around Cache Headers, Cookie less domains, Fingerprinting, etc.
This talk was delivered at GIDS Bangalore (Apr 2015).
Reducing latency on the web with the Azure CDN- TechDays NL 2014Maarten Balliauw
Serving up content on the Internet is something our web sites do daily. But are we doing this in the fastest way possible? How are users in faraway countries experiencing our apps? Why do we have three webservers serving the same content over and over again? In this session, we’ll explore the Azure Content Delivery Network or CDN, a service which makes it easy to serve up blobs, videos and other content from servers close to our users. We’ll explore simple file serving as well as some more advanced, dynamic edge caching scenarios.
(ARC310) Solving Amazon's Catalog Contention With Amazon KinesisAmazon Web Services
The Amazon.com product catalog receives millions of updates an hour across billions of products with many of the updates concentrated on comparatively few products. In this session, hear how Amazon.com has used Amazon Kinesis to build a pipeline orchestrator that provides sequencing, optimistic batching, and duplicate suppression whilst at the same time significantly lowering costs. This session covers the architecture of that solution and draws out the key enabling features that Amazon Kinesis provides. This talk is intended for those who are interested in learning more about the power of the distributed log and understanding its importance for enabling OLTP just as DHT is for storage.
When it comes to caching, there are two types of web developers - those with phat stacks of cache money and those suffering from cache anxiety. Caching is particularly handy when scaling Rails apps, however we often avoid putting in effort because it can quickly get complicated without effective strategies. Rails provides a host of built-in caching interfaces that are easy to leverage and extend. I’ll talk about how to do this and combine rails with technologies like CDNs and HTTP accelerators like Varnish so that you can more effectively cache everything, everywhere without fear of serving stale content.
Michael May is an API Engineer at Fastly and a former Austinite, now hailing from San Francisco. While in Texas he studied at UT Austin and co-founded CDN Sumo, which was acquired by Fastly. He’s waiting for the day when FaaS (Franklin BBQ as a Service) becomes a thing and dreams about fast websites.
My talking points for the presentation on optimization of modern web applications. It is a huge topic, and I concentrated mostly on technical aspects of it.
Reference architecture for Internet of ThingsSujee Maniyam
What kind of a data infrastructure is needed, to support Internet of Things?
This talk presents a reference architecture.
We are actually building this architecture as open source project. See here : bit.ly / iotxyz
Similar to SPA2015: Hooman Beheshti – The Future of CDNs (20)
RFC 7540 was ratified over 2 years ago and, today, all major browsers, servers, and CDNs support the next generation of HTTP. Just over a year ago, at Velocity, we discussed the protocol, looked at some real world implications of its deployment and use, and what realistic expectations we should have from its use. Now that adoption is ramped up and the protocol is being regularly used on the Internet, it's a good time to revisit the protocol and its deployment. Has it evolved? Have we learned anything? Are all the features providing the benefits we were expecting? What's next?In this session, we'll review protocol basics and try to answer some of these questions based on real-world use of it. We'll dig into the core features like interaction with TCP, server push, priorities and dependencies, and HPACK. We'll look at these features through the lens of experience and see if good practice patterns have emerged. We'll also review available tools and discuss what protocol enhancements are in the near and not-so-near horizon.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: Preparing for Video Streaming Events at ScaleFastly
CBS Interactive streams some of the largest video streaming events on the planet, including SuperBowl in 2019. This talk will focus on all the work that goes in ahead of time to prepare and plan for game day. From architecture design to capacity reservations to operational visibility and building playbooks we will explore how we build, test and prepare for these large events. We will also explore how some of Fastly's unique features such as MediaShield and VCL are becoming critical to these workflows.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: Building the Souther Hemisphere of the InternetFastly
As a global organization, Fastly carefully selects and deploys POP locations to service the greater audience of the Internet. Fastly currently has 52 global POPs across the Internet, 13 of which are located in the Southern Hemisphere. Another 3 are outside North America, Europe, and Asia. During this talk, VP of Infrastructure Tom Daly will share our experience in building Fastly's network of POPs south of the equator, where, in some cases, the Internet we know here in San Francisco, is much different. Tom will explore the physical datacenter infrastructure, network topology, and network policy that pose of unique challenges when operating in these parts of the world.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: The World Cup StreamFastly
FuboTV’s recent offering of the 2018 FIFA World Cup broke all of our previous records for viewership and put our systems to the test as we delivered all 64 matches live. Coverage for a majority of games was spread out across ~150 regional sports networks, local FOX affiliates, owned and operated regional stations and other local FOX offerings, with a few early matches broadcasted on national channels. Running a successful World Cup required us to pay close attention to our caching strategies, delivery mechanisms, content edge-case handling and more. An event at this scale, spread out over a month, also gave us an excellent test bed to run experiments. We were able to augment our last-mile delivery, test/tweak our solution for CDN decisioning/priority, and even stand up a set of UHD HDR10 feeds to give our users their first glimpse of live OTT UHD offerings. We’ll run through this whole event from a scale and technology perspective and share our takeaways as we prepare for the upcoming NFL season and beyond.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: Scale and Stability at the Edge with 1.4 Billion...Fastly
Braze is a customer engagement platform that delivers more than a billion messaging experiences across push, email, apps and more each day. In this session, Jon Hyman will describe the company's challenges during an inflection point in 2015 when the company reached the limitation of their physical networking equipment, and how Braze has since grown more than 7x on Fastly. Jon will also discuss how Braze uses Fastly's Layer 7 load balancing to improve stability and uptime of its APIs.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: Moving Off the Monolith: A Seamless MigrationFastly
In this talk, Jeff Valeo from Grubhub will talk about how they leveraged Fastly to slowly migrate user traffic from a legacy monolith to a new, service-based architecture. This solution allowed Grubhub to shift millions of users as new functionality was built with zero downtime.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: Bringing TLS to GitHub PagesFastly
Sam Kottler, SRE Engineering Manager at GitHub will dig into how they rearchitected Pages, so that custom domains now support HTTPS, meaning over a million GitHub Pages sites will be served over HTTPS.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: HTTP Invalidation WorkshopFastly
One of the most powerful tools that Fastly offers is worldwide, instant purge. Come learn the ins and outs of how HTTP invalidation works in general and how purge and surrogate keys can be used to improve your site's delivery and get even more value from Fastly.
This talk will also cover the purge blast radius
Surrogate Keys are an amazing way to purge your content from cache, but they can be a bit scary when you aren't sure how many URLs this surrogate key is tied to or what kind of affect this will have on origin. Join the USA Today Network as we explain how we leverage big data tools, Go APIs, New Relic, and Sumo Logic to provide our users a suite of tools for purging content from Fastly. Developers love knowing the blast radius of their surrogate keys, while our engineers love the real-time metrics and notifications we get when developers are hard-purging content.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: How Magento moved to the cloud while maintaining...Fastly
Magento Commerce was first released by a small web development agency over ten years when they saw first-hand what a challenge it was for companies like them to build unique eCommerce sites. They created an open source platform that gives developers the flexibility to create meaningful shopping experiences while building a global community that drives down merchant costs and fosters innovation. Amid the rise of cloud-based software Magento needed to keep pace with more complex merchant needs and heightened shopper expectations. In this session learn how Magento, with the help of Partners like Fastly, evolved into a cloud-based platform without sacrificing their commitment to open software, flexibility, and the community.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: Scaling Ethereum to 10B requests per dayFastly
ConsenSys is a venture production studio building decentralized applications and developer and end-user tools for blockchains. Their Infura platform is a core infrastructure pillar of Ethereum, enabling decentralized applications of all kinds to scale to accommodate their users.
Infura went from 20 million requests a day at the beginning of 2017 to over 10 billion requests today. This staggering 500x increase naturally lead to questions of scale.
In this talk, co-founder Michael Wuehler will discuss the technical challenges encountered while building and scaling the Infura platform, and the infrastructure decisions that led to their adoption of Fastly and other pivotal technologies.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: Authentication at the EdgeFastly
Turning away unwanted traffic close to the source is a common and key use case for edge networks like Fastly, but identity, authentication, and authorization at the edge can go far beyond blocking DDoS. The unique way that you identify your site’s users can probably move to the edge too, allowing you to cut response times in your critical path, offload more origin traffic, and make smarter routing decisions at the edge.
In this talk we’ll cover a number of patterns in use by real Fastly customers. Whether you prefer token authentication, pre-shared keys, OAuth, HTTP auth, JSON web tokens, or a complex paywall, learn how you can potentially make your authentication decisions at the edge.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: Testing with Fastly WorkshopFastly
A crucial step for continuous integration and continuous delivery with Fastly is testing the service configuration to provide confidence in changes. This workshop will cover unit-testing VCL, component testing a service as a black box, systems testing a service end-to-end and stakeholder acceptance testing.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: Fastly Purge Control at the USA TODAY NETWORKFastly
One of the most powerful tools that Fastly offers is worldwide, instant purge. Come learn the ins and outs of how HTTP invalidation works in general and how purge and surrogate keys can be used to improve your site's delivery and get even more value from Fastly.
This talk will also cover the purge blast radius
Surrogate Keys are an amazing way to purge your content from cache, but they can be a bit scary when you aren't sure how many URLs this surrogate key is tied to or what kind of affect this will have on origin. Join the USA Today Network as we explain how we leverage big data tools, Go APIs, New Relic, and Sumo Logic to provide our users a suite of tools for purging content from Fastly. Developers love knowing the blast radius of their surrogate keys, while our engineers love the real-time metrics and notifications we get when developers are hard-purging content.
In this hands-on workshop you will attack a vulnerable web application while defending your own web service behind a Fastly WAF. Attendees will depart understanding how common web application attacks can be exploited as well defended against. They will experience WAF logging and analytics via sumologic to detect attacks realtime. For mitigation you will use a preview version of our newly built WAF rule management UI. We will close off the workshop by deep diving on how our security team analyzed and mitigated some of this summer major vulnerabilities.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: Logging at the Edge Fastly
Fastly delivers more than a million log events per second. Our Real-Time Log Streaming is easy to set up, 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.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: Video Workshop DocsFastly
Fastly delivers more than a million log events per second. Our Real-Time Log Streaming is easy to set up, 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.
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Live streaming and on-demand video can provide a powerful way to connect with customers, but viewers expect seamless pixel-perfect streams without common video delivery inconveniences, such as downtime or lags. This workshop will demonstrate how anyone can deliver live video at scale. We’ll thoroughly explain key video delivery optimizations and more importantly, demonstrate their efficacy using the data collected from both Fastly Log Streaming/Sumo Logic and the Mux quality of experience service.
Altitude San Francisco 2018: Programming the EdgeFastly
Programming the edge
Second floor
Andrew Betts
Principal Developer Advocate, Fastly
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Through our support for running your own code on our edge servers, Fastly's network offers you a platform of unparalleled speed, reliability and efficiency to which you can delegate a surprising amount of logic that has traditionally been in the application layer. In this workshop, you'll implement a series of advanced edge solutions, and learn how to apply these patterns to your own applications to reduce your origin load, dramatically improve performance, and make your applications more secure.
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At Spotify we use CDNs heavily to serve our 170 million users. While a large share of our traffic is the over 35 million songs we serve, we also serve lots of other assets. Most of these assets are created and owned by teams other than our CDN team. In this talk we will walk through how we at Spotify leverage Fastly APIs to enable lightning fast content delivery for our 2000 person R&D organisation.
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5. Deployment
• Originally simple:
• Serve root web page (HTML) direct from origin
• Point static assets on the page to a domain owned by the CDN
• Everything controlled through DNS
21. Three types of content
• Static
• Infrequent changes, can cache for a long time
• Cache-‐control headers are often good enough
• Examples: images, javascript, css, etc
• Dynamic
• Can’t cache at all – must go to origin
• DSA and transport optimization is key for performance
• Examples: logins, credit card transactions, Ajax, etc
• Event-‐driven:
• Static, but unpredictably
• Cache-‐control headers are not good enough on their own
• Examples: news stories, wiki pages, user comments, sports scores, etc
22. Three types of content
• Static
• Infrequent changes, can cache for a long time
• Cache-‐control headers are often good enough
• Examples: images, javascript, css, etc
• Dynamic
• Can’t cache at all – must go to origin
• DSA and transport optimization is key for performance
• Examples: logins, credit card transactions, Ajax, etc
• Event-‐driven:
• Static, but unpredictably
• Cache-‐control headers are not good enough on their own
• Examples: news stories, wiki pages, user comments, sports scores, etc
23. Three types of content
• Static
• Infrequent changes, can cache for a long time
• Cache-‐control headers are often good enough
• Examples: images, javascript, css, etc
• Dynamic
• Can’t cache at all – must go to origin
• DSA and transport optimization is key for performance
• Examples: logins, credit card transactions, Ajax, etc
• Event-‐driven:
• Static, but unpredictably
• Cache-‐control headers are not good enough on their own
• Examples: news stories, wiki pages, user comments, sports scores, etc
26. CDN problems
• Services were black boxes
• Lots of professional services
• Caching efficiency has decreased
• Not a lot of visibility
• No real-‐time feedback
• No real-‐time interfaces
• APIs
• Not enough real-‐time control
• Removing content from the CDN
• Configuration changes
36. Purging content from a CDN
• Event-‐driven content can be cached if the CDN allows instantaneous
programmatic purging
• Cache normally
• Purge when change trigger happens
• Rinse and repeat!
• Slow purge times unacceptable in this case
• We need instant purging
• Deterministic and predictable
78. Control at the edge
• Moving application logic to the edge
• Example: VCL (Varnish Configuration Language)
• Script-‐like configuration for functionality at the edge
79.
80. Control at the edge
• Moving application logic to the edge
• Example: VCL (Varnish Configuration Language)
• Script-‐like configuration for functionality at the edge
• Not exclusive to varnish
• Any mechanism offered by the CDN to allow logic to be executed at the edge
is good
81. Logic at the edge
• Generate content at the edge
• HTTP header manipulation
• Origin selection
• Caching rules
• Geo-‐IP rules
• Forcing SSL
• Serving stale content
• Etc, etc, etc
85. Real-‐time analytics
• Statistics API
• Network stats
• HTTP stats (status codes, etc)
• Caching stats (hits, misses, errors, etc)
• Everything has to be real-‐time
• Historic data is also a must
86. Logging
• Daily or hourly logs are not good enough
• Logs in real-‐time
• Log streaming
• To any logging destination endpoint
• Syslog, S3, FTP, etc.
87. Visibility
• We need to see what’s going on
• Real-‐time stats
• Stats API
• Real-‐time logs
103. Summary: CDN is an extension of the app
• Flexible caching…
• …and uncaching
• All tail sizes should perform comparably!
• Control over functionality at the edge
• Real time interfaces for programmability
• Logic at the edge
• Real-‐time visibility
• Real-‐time analytics
104. The future
• Security (more now than future!)
• Even more at the edge
• More logic
• Other parts of applications
• More delivery features