Fastly vs. Compute@Edge

The leading edge cloud platform available today empowers developers, fosters customer connections, and facilitates business growth. Our innovative solution is crafted to enhance both your existing technology and your teams' capabilities. By moving data and applications closer to users at the network's edge, our platform significantly boosts the performance of your websites and applications. Fastly's highly customizable CDN enables you to tailor content delivery right where it's needed most. Users will appreciate having immediate access to the information they seek. Our robust Points of Presence (POPs), equipped with solid-state drives (SSDs), are strategically positioned in well-connected areas across the globe. This setup allows for extended caching periods, minimizing the need to retrieve data from the original source. Instant Purge and batch purging through surrogate keys enable rapid caching and invalidation of dynamic content, ensuring that you can always deliver up-to-date news, inventory levels, and weather updates. With such capabilities, your platform is not only efficient but also adaptable to ever-evolving user demands.

Fastly's Compute@Edge platform equips developers with the tools needed to build high-performance applications that are distributed globally, executing edge code without the hassle of infrastructure management. You can craft complex logic for any application or backend service through our secure, scalable serverless computing framework. With Compute@Edge, you can witness a remarkable 100x boost in code execution startup times when compared to traditional serverless solutions. Your code operates simultaneously across a multitude of servers located around the globe, effectively removing challenges such as cold starts and roundtrip delays, and guaranteeing a fast and reliable computing experience. This method emphasizes improved user experiences, which is crucial for digital transformation efforts. You can easily write, deploy, and test your code at the Fastly edge, benefiting from a strong local development and debugging environment. Moreover, we manage all essential elements to ensure your application can scale quickly and globally, positioning it as near to your end users as feasible. This streamlined process allows you to concentrate on driving innovation, while we take care of the intricate details of deployment and scaling, fostering a more agile development environment. Ultimately, this ensures that you can bring your ideas to life without unnecessary interruptions.