My name is Parth Pandya and my job title is Technical Support Engineer at Adobe. Fastly provides CDN, WAF, image optimization, and IP restriction. I am a technical person, not working in sales, so I don't have specific metrics. Overall, Fastly is good for performance, good for CDN, good for WAF, and average for services. We are partners in Adobe Commerce Cloud. I have rated Fastly 9 out of 10.
In terms of security features, Cloudflare came into the security game very late. Cloudflare has a WAF solution, which it sort of purchased, so it is not native to its portfolio. It kind of becomes native now because they integrate it, and you can have the WAF deployed either locally in your network or upon points of presence with Fastly, which is a legit web application firewall. It is a good solution. It is a very developer-focused tool. Fastly has an easy setup process. It is a solution that is based on Varnish. Varnish is a caching language. Fastly Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) is a programming language that has already been around since the 1980s. Varnish is very native to developers who run Apache servers, which is also the concept of Fastly. We are using the skills of developers who know the configuration of the web servers, and we accelerate traffic using this special programming language. Fastly competes against Varnish itself because it is not a company. Varnish is an open-source product. The users should be very strong, especially in order to facilitate quickly; everyone should have a strong knowledge of Varnish Configuration Language, which is VCL. If they just need to locally use the solutions and if they don't need worldwide distribution, they can do it via Varnish without Fastly being only used if you are a big corporation and you need to compute in lots of regions, and you don't want to run all the compute by yourself. If you are a big company and you want to have a global footprint in computing, you can deploy your own servers everywhere, like Azure, AWS, or any computing platform, but then you would run into a lot of costs. Fastly offers a platform, but I don't know how many POPs.Fastly is offering to compute functionality on its platform based on how an oil company sells you oil. Fastly has a big computing platform, and if it is able to run computing on edge, it can also run AI on the edge because AI is nothing but computing in order to accelerate algorithms on edge, which is where you connect to the internet. If your computer is in London, you probably get connected with a British telecom company, and your first connection out of your house or office is to some sort of server related to a British telecom company, and it is what is known as the edge. If your computer comes from AI, media, or video, you are basically close to the British Telecom network, and the experience will be faster as you won't be able to connect to anything in Zurich, Tokyo, or Moscow. You connect directly to your local provider. Bring computing to the edge so you can accelerate your experience, so it will accelerate AI, video, and anything else because it is closer to you. If you make a request in ChatGPT, the request goes to some server, and that is at the speed of light. If you are connected to a server in Australia, that could take up to 200 milliseconds, which is, like, two-tenths of a second, and if you do that quite often and if the request goes, like, 20 to 30 times, you end up waiting maybe three to four seconds for the answer of your request. If the British telecom, it has gone half a second because it is closer. I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
Information Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
Top 10
Jan 22, 2024
I would recommend reading up on the core functionality of the product and then mapping that to your business use case. And, particularly, cache keys are things you wanna look at. Your cache keys are well thought out so that you don't have something too specific, and you also don't want something too general. We've had that problem in the past where our cache keys aren't specific enough or are too general, so we go to clear cache, and we're clearing more things than we should. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten because I like this product.
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
MSP
Aug 28, 2023
I rate Fastly an eight out of ten. I advise others to go for Cloudflare if their application is hosted on AWS. They should evaluate Akamai as well. They must decide which product to choose based on price and use cases.
Fasty is very open to running pilots and trials and is very engaged with working with our team to set up their platform. They're a very good consideration not only to run as your primary CDN but also as a dual CDN. They are very open to conversation around it. It obviously improves resiliency and redundancy in our CDN setup. The solution allows you to take advantage of the features that Fastly may have over other CDN vendors within the same architecture. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.
Fastly acquired Signal Sciences. It is a good product, and it fulfills our requirements. Even if a feature is missing, we can request it, and Fastly will help us. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
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My name is Parth Pandya and my job title is Technical Support Engineer at Adobe. Fastly provides CDN, WAF, image optimization, and IP restriction. I am a technical person, not working in sales, so I don't have specific metrics. Overall, Fastly is good for performance, good for CDN, good for WAF, and average for services. We are partners in Adobe Commerce Cloud. I have rated Fastly 9 out of 10.
In terms of security features, Cloudflare came into the security game very late. Cloudflare has a WAF solution, which it sort of purchased, so it is not native to its portfolio. It kind of becomes native now because they integrate it, and you can have the WAF deployed either locally in your network or upon points of presence with Fastly, which is a legit web application firewall. It is a good solution. It is a very developer-focused tool. Fastly has an easy setup process. It is a solution that is based on Varnish. Varnish is a caching language. Fastly Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) is a programming language that has already been around since the 1980s. Varnish is very native to developers who run Apache servers, which is also the concept of Fastly. We are using the skills of developers who know the configuration of the web servers, and we accelerate traffic using this special programming language. Fastly competes against Varnish itself because it is not a company. Varnish is an open-source product. The users should be very strong, especially in order to facilitate quickly; everyone should have a strong knowledge of Varnish Configuration Language, which is VCL. If they just need to locally use the solutions and if they don't need worldwide distribution, they can do it via Varnish without Fastly being only used if you are a big corporation and you need to compute in lots of regions, and you don't want to run all the compute by yourself. If you are a big company and you want to have a global footprint in computing, you can deploy your own servers everywhere, like Azure, AWS, or any computing platform, but then you would run into a lot of costs. Fastly offers a platform, but I don't know how many POPs.Fastly is offering to compute functionality on its platform based on how an oil company sells you oil. Fastly has a big computing platform, and if it is able to run computing on edge, it can also run AI on the edge because AI is nothing but computing in order to accelerate algorithms on edge, which is where you connect to the internet. If your computer is in London, you probably get connected with a British telecom company, and your first connection out of your house or office is to some sort of server related to a British telecom company, and it is what is known as the edge. If your computer comes from AI, media, or video, you are basically close to the British Telecom network, and the experience will be faster as you won't be able to connect to anything in Zurich, Tokyo, or Moscow. You connect directly to your local provider. Bring computing to the edge so you can accelerate your experience, so it will accelerate AI, video, and anything else because it is closer to you. If you make a request in ChatGPT, the request goes to some server, and that is at the speed of light. If you are connected to a server in Australia, that could take up to 200 milliseconds, which is, like, two-tenths of a second, and if you do that quite often and if the request goes, like, 20 to 30 times, you end up waiting maybe three to four seconds for the answer of your request. If the British telecom, it has gone half a second because it is closer. I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
I would recommend reading up on the core functionality of the product and then mapping that to your business use case. And, particularly, cache keys are things you wanna look at. Your cache keys are well thought out so that you don't have something too specific, and you also don't want something too general. We've had that problem in the past where our cache keys aren't specific enough or are too general, so we go to clear cache, and we're clearing more things than we should. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten because I like this product.
I rate Fastly an eight out of ten. I advise others to go for Cloudflare if their application is hosted on AWS. They should evaluate Akamai as well. They must decide which product to choose based on price and use cases.
Fasty is very open to running pilots and trials and is very engaged with working with our team to set up their platform. They're a very good consideration not only to run as your primary CDN but also as a dual CDN. They are very open to conversation around it. It obviously improves resiliency and redundancy in our CDN setup. The solution allows you to take advantage of the features that Fastly may have over other CDN vendors within the same architecture. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.
Fastly acquired Signal Sciences. It is a good product, and it fulfills our requirements. Even if a feature is missing, we can request it, and Fastly will help us. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
I recommend the solution to others and rate it a ten.
In summary, this solution is easy to manage, quick to deploy, and all of my customers are happy.