Scaling, failing, and a special surprise: Altitude San Francisco in 2 weeks

[View this email in your browser.]( [Scaling, failing, and a special surprise: Altitude San Francisco Sept 12-13, 2018]( Our customer conference kicks off in San Francisco in just a few weeks. Along with a day of hands-on workshops, you’ll hear from innovative companies like GitHub, Let’s Encrypt, CNN Digital, FuboTV and more on how they’re scaling, handling failures, and innovating at the edge. We’re also unveiling a surprise, which you won’t want to miss! (Bonus: It’s free!) [Register now]( Authentication patterns at the edge Identity is a boring, but necessary element of most website builds. Validating a user’s identity and access rights is something that is in the critical performance path, required site-wide, and often implemented in a bespoke way. Principal Developer Advocate Andrew Betts writes about how moving it to the edge improves performance, and can simplify your application architecture. (He’ll also be speaking about this at our [Altitude conference in San Francisco]( on September 13.) [Discover the patterns]( Health checks in distributed systems In response to Tamar Bercovici’s keynote at Velocity last month, Cindy Sridharan asserts that service health is a spectrum, not a binary taxonomy. “While it’s easy to tell when a service is completely down, it’s much harder to determine the degree of healthiness of a service that’s alive,” she notes. This is particularly important for the load balancing layer of your system, which needs more fine-grained information about the health of a process to make circuit-breaking and load shedding decisions accordingly. [Read more]( Elevating the user experience at Fastly By participating in our Beta and Limited Availability releases, we get a host of great feedback and ideas that we can push back into the platform. Thanks to your feedback, we recently made a set of user experience updates that enhance the WAF, Image Optimizer, and user management functionality in the Fastly control panel. [See what's changed]( Edge computing at Chick-fil-A It’s not every day you hear the words “containers” and “Kubernetes” uttered alongside “chicken,” but the IOT/Edge team at Chick-fil-A never ceases to amaze. Along with describing their motivations for running containers on bare metal in all their stores — low latency, high availability, control over the platform, and scale — they also ponder if they might be the largest (micro) cloud provider in the world. [Look into their stack]( Powering blockchain app development 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 and IPFS, enabling decentralized applications of all kinds to scale to accommodate their users. Fastly’s edge cloud platform helps them support ever-increasing scale and stay ahead of a rapidly growing new market. [Read the case study]( © 2018 Fastly, Inc. All Rights Reserved [www.fastly.com](?fty_src=Eloqua&fty_campaign=August%202018%20Newsletter_NA&fty_medium=Email&fty_misc=728&elqTrackId=7f9c8cde656d405a9a3aa97d9befca59&elq=82b3990151b94e90bbc450bf6b039d22&elqaid=1249&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=728) | info@fastly.com Follow Us: [Twitter]( | [Facebook]( | [LinkedIn]( PO Box 78266 San Francisco, CA 94107 [Unsubscribe from future emails or update your email preferences](.