A CDN that lives up to its name: FAST!
What do you like best?
At Agility CMS we use Fastly in front of our file assets and APIs. For the API we need to be able to instantly invalidate cache when data changes at the origin. Only Fastly was able to accomplish this worldwide in our tests in under 200ms consistently.
Also, as a baseline, requests to the CDN are really fast in terms of response time - usually under 100ms, often under 50ms.
What do you dislike?
The language to customize Fastly is VCL, which is based on varnish. While this is incredibly powerful as a language, its not something we were comfortable with. We had to learn VCL before we could even begin to take advantage of all Fastly has to offer.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get connected to the Fastly team if you have any questions. They are incredibly knowledgeable and very helpful, especially with those tough technical problems and questions.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
With Fastly, we have a fast system that our customers can rely on to always be up-to-date with the latest content, delivered incredibly fast.
