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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!

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webcal://developer.fastly.com/downloads/events.ics

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From the blog

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

The crucial difference between robots.txt and x-robots-tag

“Robots” directives control how search engine crawlers are allowed to index your website, and are one of the oldest web standards. But does it matter if you use the meta tag, HTTP header, or the robots.txt file? Yes, very much so.

Point a domain at your site with Fastly

Got a shiny new domain you want to point at a site or application you have hosted somewhere on the web?

Surprise! Here's a gift from Kubernetes and Fastly

Your gift:

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 File Server	JakeChampion	Compute File Server uploads files to Fastly for serving directly from within Compute applications
Swift runtime - Compute	swift-cloud	Swift runtime for Fastly Compute
Ruby runtime - Compute	kateinoigakukun	Ruby runtime for Fastly Compute
Zig runtime - Compute	jedisct1	The easiest way to write Compute services in Zig

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