Case Study: Business Insider achieves instant, personalized global content delivery with Fastly

Business Insider - Customer Case Study

Business Insider, launched in 2007, is the largest business news site with seven international editions and about 40 million monthly visitors. As its global audience and mobile traffic grew, the company needed to deliver fast, personalized, real-time content everywhere without overhauling its existing Varnish-based infrastructure, and required the ability to purge and update articles instantly to support its iterative editorial workflow.

Fastly—powered by Varnish—was dropped on top of Business Insider’s stack, letting them keep custom VCL while adding edge caching, surrogate keys, Instant Purge, and a real-time dashboard. The result: editors can publish and purge changes in milliseconds, comments and pages are cached and updated independently, and readers worldwide (including mobile users) get fast, personalized content—giving Business Insider greater editorial agility and a measurable performance boost for its 40 million monthly visitors.

Business Insider

Julie Sommerville

VP of Engineering