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Fastly developer community

Thousands of developers around the world are building on Fastly. Join us and meet others creating novel and powerful things using the Fastly platform, and hang out with Fastly engineers as we learn from our community of customers.

The Fastly community forum at community.fastly.com is a great place to start.

Post your ideas, example code, and problems and get help from other developers and Fastly specialists. We also often do product research and reach out to the community for feedback there.

Upcoming events

You can find us at these events!

⬥ Fastly eventAltitude	26 Sep 2023 New York City	Fastly is on a mission to make the internet a better place by delivering the best user experience imaginable—but we couldn't do it without you! Ready for what's next? Join us at Altitude 2023!
Google Cloud Summit Tel Aviv	25 Oct 2023 Tel Aviv	Google Cloud Summit is back to Tel Aviv with the latest updates about Generative AI, app modernization, data cloud and more. Fastly is one of the partners with presence in this edition. Stop by our booth and learn about Fastly!
Fastly speakerDevops.Barcelona	9-10 Nov 2023 Barcelona	Fastly's Developer Relations engineer Dora Militaru will be speaking about authentication architecture for the modern, open web. Expect practical advice on how to implement fast, secure, and seamless authentication at the edge.

To keep up to date when we schedule new events, you can add our events feed to your calendar app! Whatever app you prefer, subscribe to our calendar feed to see our events on your calendar:

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From the blog

Follow our technical blogs over on Dev.to. Here's what we've been writing about recently:

Community Spotlight: Keeping open source free with Dirk Müller, openSUSE

There’s an undeniable shift happening in the open source community right now.

I believe we can still save the web 💞

In today’s digital age, trust has become a cornerstone of building a better Internet.

Visualize your Fastly traffic on a real time globe using Glitch

On the Fastly developer hub, we recently added a visualization of the traffic flowing across the Fastly edge network. It was a big hit and customers ask me how they can visualize their own traffic like this.

Community projects

Developers around the world are creating exciting technologies to work with Fastly services, and we love to support and feature them. Learn more about some of our favorites here:

Project	Author	Description
Pushpin	jkarneges	Proxy server for adding push to your API
Falco	ysugimoto	Falco is a VCL parser and linter optimized for Fastly
Compute@Edge File Server	JakeChampion	Compute@Edge File Server uploads files to Fastly for serving directly from within Compute@Edge applications
Swift runtime - Compute	swift-cloud	Swift runtime for Fastly Compute@Edge
Ruby runtime - Compute	kateinoigakukun	Ruby runtime for Fastly Compute@Edge
Zig runtime - Compute	jedisct1	The easiest way to write services for Fastly's Compute@Edge in Zig