Faster rendering, smooth streaming, and improving interoperability

[View this email in your browser.]( [Altitude SF recap: Tales of scale, video insights, and making the internet better for everyone]( 1.4 billion active monthly users, 10 billion requests per day, and 5.2 TB per second peak traffic — these are some of the staggering numbers we heard about at our 7th Altitude conference. Customers, partners, and Fastlyans gathered to share experiences, exchange information and insights, and enjoy some tasty food and valuable networking. (You can [watch all the sessions here]( [Watch the highlights]( Faster start rendering on casper.com Casper recently deployed a change to casper.com that loaded a piece of 3rd party JavaScript from their own server instead of their vendor’s server. This change shaved 1.7 seconds off of the start render time. It was a great example of some performance-minded people on the Casper Tech team identifying an issue, finding an elegant solution, shipping it to production, and making a huge impact for their customers. [See how they did it]( Smoother streaming on Spotify with BBR Spotify flipped one server flag and got more download bandwidth for Spotify users by using BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time). Moving their playback quality metrics in the right direction is fiendishly difficult, and normally involves trade-offs, e.g. stutter versus audio bitrate. But with BBR, they’ve seen a substantial improvement at no apparent cost. [Get the TL;DR]( Trust at scale: Introducing Platform TLS The web is evolving to be more secure by default, and our new Platform TLS product gives companies that offer mass hosting or support multi-brand portfolios the ability to fully automate TLS provisioning at scale, including certificate and key management, through Fastly’s API. It supports delivery and management of hundreds of thousands of certificates, supported by an automated worldwide TLS termination and acceleration solution. [Discover trust at scale]( Nick Rockwell interviews Fastly CEO Artur Bergman New York Times CTO Nick Rockwell spoke with Fastly CEO and Founder Artur Bergman about building Fastly on open source technology, why early internet protocol design could have benefited from more diverse contributors and how the speed of light kind of pisses him off. [Read the full interview]( Testing freshness in CDNs CDNs all use HTTP caching to optimize performance, but sometimes different CDNs do it in slightly different ways and that complicates usage for customers. Principal Engineer Mark Nottingham makes a case for CDN interoperability and introduces a common test suite to help identify differences between CDNs and improve interoperability. [See how the test works]( © 2018 Fastly, Inc. All Rights Reserved [www.fastly.com](?fty_src=Eloqua&fty_campaign=September%202018%20Newsletter_NA&fty_medium=Email&fty_misc=749&elqTrackId=7f9c8cde656d405a9a3aa97d9befca59&elq=5416369b89ec4998a6aeff0b344f4ca8&elqaid=1284&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=749) | info@fastly.com Follow Us: [Twitter]( | [Facebook]( | [LinkedIn]( PO Box 78266 San Francisco, CA 94107 [Unsubscribe from future emails or update your email preferences](.