Case Study: Fastly achieves faster global content delivery and accelerated growth with Oracle IaaS and PaaS

How to Build a Next Generation Content Delivery Network

Fastly is a San Francisco startup building a next-generation CDN that caches dynamic content at the edge using SSD-based hardware and instant global purging. As web content grows richer and more dynamic, Fastly faced the challenge of getting content physically closer to users and reliably routing them to the optimal cache for the lowest latency.

To solve this, Fastly partnered with Dyn for managed DNS and Dyn Traffic Director with Geolocation Load Balancing, leveraging Dyn’s global anycast network to direct users to the nearest cache and minimize latency. The combination of Fastly’s edge caching and Dyn’s routing and responsive support has improved performance, helped attract clients like Wikia, Instructables and imgix, and accelerated Fastly’s market growth through strong customer experiences and partner endorsements.

Fastly

Simon Wistow

Director of Engineering