Fastly’s 2022 Altitude Conference

Join our 2022 Altitude Series with a kickoff from Fastly’s CEO, Todd Nightingale.

As Fastly’s new CEO, Todd Nightingale welcomes attendees to the return of its flagship event, Altitude. He unpacks his vision for making it easier to build digital experiences that are fast, engaging, and safe, and spotlight where Fastly’s innovations can help drive business outcomes for customers. Todd stepped in as CEO for Fastly in September 2022.

Upcoming within this series, see future forward discussions of Fastly capabilities and enhancements, as well as numerous customer scenarios where Fastly products are helping to support their mission, meet their customer or user needs, and build the best of the web.

Speaker: Todd Nightingale, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Fastly

Continue with our 2022 Altitude Series with remarks from our founder Artur Bergman.

More than ever, companies need Fastly to enable them to innovate at the right place in the software stack to deliver globally performant, secure, and reliable applications to their customers. Artur shares his vision for enabling customers to leverage the power of Fastly beyond the cloud and the data center.

Our next session will feature Lakshmi Sharma, Chief Product and Chief Strategy Officer, and her discussion on the Power of the Platform and Fastly's development roadmap.

Speaker: Artur Bergman, Chief Architect and Founder of Fastly

Continue with our 2022 Altitude Series with an exploration of our platform solutions.

Businesses are moving to provide a modern digital and personalized experience for their customers. This requires a programmable edge that enables teams to build, secure, and deliver code quickly. Fastly’s Chief Product and Strategy Officer Lakshmi Sharma talks about Fastly’s programmable edge platform and highlight key product releases for the year.

Join us for our next session with Praba Siva, Head of API Management and CDN at Target, for his discussion on Fastly's role in helping improve the reliability and security of Target's digital services.

Speaker: Lakshmi Sharma, Chief Product and Chief Strategy Officer of Fastly

Continue with our 2022 Altitude Series with Target's Head of API Management & CDN, Praba Siva

Fastly has played a key role in helping to improve the reliability – and security – of Target’s digital services. What’s next? In this presentation, Target Head of API Management & CDN Praba Siva will share how a recently completed pilot program of Fastly’s Edge Computing capabilities opened up a number of opportunities to deliver even better digital services to the company’s guests and internal customers. Siva will also share operational management best practices, including how Fastly configuration management provides seamless integration with current development cycle and enables the company’s developers to continuously integrate and deploy the changes to their environment. The token renewals and certificate management are integrated with internal process and provides superior manageability with minimum to no manual intervention. Siva also will share how Fastly’s WAF solution provides multiple layers of security to protect the company’s digital services.

Join us for our next session with Larry Chevres, Vice President of Software Engineering and Content Platforms at CNN Digital, for his discussion of how the media outlet uses the Fastly platform to manage a seven-layer-redundancy infrastructure to scale and deliver fast-breaking news to its global audience - including a brief discussion on the Fastly-HUMAN partnership to identify and eliminate fraudulent web content.

Speaker: Praba Siva, Head of API Management & CDN at Target

Continue with our 2022 Altitude Series with CNN Digital's Vice President of Software Engineering, Content Platforms, Larry Chevres

When news breaks, every millisecond counts. From the 2020 election and January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol to the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II, CNN Digital experienced record surges in traffic and visitor engagement. In this presentation, Larry Chevres, CNN Digital Vice President of Software Engineering, Content Platforms, shares how the media outlet uses the Fastly platform to manage a seven-layer-redundancy infrastructure to scale and deliver fast-breaking news to its global audience. In addition, Chevres will briefly discuss how CNN is relying on the recently announced Fastly-HUMAN partnership to help identify and eliminate fraudulent web content created for misinformation and illegal money-making activities.

Join us for our next session with Andrew Peterson, Fastly's Vice President of Security and founder of Signal Sciences, for his discussion of how we makes security easy for customers.

Speaker: Larry Chevres, Vice President of Software Engineering, Content Platforms for CNN Digital

Continue with our 2022 Altitude Series with Gannett and how they secure their experiences across billions of requests.

Like most enterprises, Gannett, the publisher of many well-known media brands such as USA Today as well as hundreds of local media outlets in 46 states across the country, needed a robust API Gateway/Management platform that provides authentication, origin protection, and other features vital to scaling and protection. When the company discovered that their off-the-shelf API management solution was underperforming, Gannett discovered that they could create their own API management solution (which they call Fastly API Management (FAM)) using the versatile Fastly platform. By moving the API layer to Fastly’s platform, Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, Bilal Fazal, and Principal Engineer, Kris Vincent share how their team was able to significantly improve security, average response time and cost savings. Today FAM handles over 3 billion requests per month distributed across 89 proxies.

Join us for our next session with Nick Rockwell, EVP Engineering & Infrastructure at Fastly, for his discussion of building the future of Fastly's global network that meets our customer's needs to program and innovate.

Speakers:
- Bilal Fazal, Manager Site Reliability Engineering at Gannett
- Kristopher Vincent, Principal Engineer at Gannett

Continue with our 2022 Altitude Series with Bell Media's approach to delivering content to meet the needs of their users.

Bell Media is Canada’s leading content creation company with premier assets in television such as CTV, radio, including iHeart Canada, digital media and much more. For Bell Media's Digital Video Pipeline team, the mandate is simple: deliver the best content and best experience to our users. Although similar in land area, Canada's population density is 1/9th of the United States, making efficient delivery on our promise a uniquely Canadian challenge. In this presentation, Media Technology Analysts Adrian Loree and Roy Hasanizadeh discuss how their team is using Fastly to measurably improve the delivery network to their customers to support high traffic events such as the World Cup, the popular HBO show, “House of the Dragon” and breaking news. As part of the presentation, they will share how they are using Fastly CDN’s real-time streaming logs to monitor and alert as well as help shape traffic, plan new features and their usability post-rollout, design disaster recovery scenarios for both live and VoD streaming, and much more.

Join us for our next session with Laura Thomson, SVP Engineering at Fastly, where she will discuss the capabilities of Fastly observability systems and the functionality expansions that are on the horizon.

Speakers:
- Adrian Loree, Media Technology Analyst, Video Pipeline for Bell Media
- Roy Hasanizadeh, Sr. Media Technology Analyst, Video Pipeline for Bell Media

Continue with our 2022 Altitude Series with a discussion about Fastly's observability capabilities and what's to come.

Fastly has worked hard to further unlock our customers’ ability to build their own observability systems by surfacing real-time and historical data in a single pane of glass. This talk focuses on a few of the latest observability functionality expansions with Laura Thomson, SVP Engineering at Fastly.

Join us for our next session with Tyler McMullen, Fastly Chief Technology Officer and founding member, for his discussion of how Fastly is continuing to lead with edge computing.

Speaker: Laura Thomson, SVP Engineering for Fastly

Continue with our Altitude 2022 Series with a discussion from Fastly CTO and founding member, Tyler McMullen

Fastly's Chief Technology Officer speaks to how Fastly is continuing to bring serverless, stateless, and locationless functionality to customers through Compute@Edge. Learn more about the future of edge computing.

Join us for our next session with Gustaf Nilsson Kotte, Senior Software Engineer at IKEA Retail (Ingka Group), for a presentation on the past, present and future of IKEA.com web development, including examples of edge computing in their day-to-day operations.

Speaker: Tyler McMullen, Chief Technology Officer at Fastly

Continue our Altitude 2022 Series with how edge computing is helping Ingka Group of IKEA retail achieve success at scale.

IKEA.com is one of the 10th largest E-commerce websites (2021). Its web architecture is based on static files, supporting both static sites and client-side JavaScript applications. Static files have democratized web development for 50 frontend teams and allow for high availability, great web performance, and low operational cost. However, IKEA also begin to experience the limitations of this architecture, especially around A/B testing and personalization. Join Gustaf Nilsson Kotte in his discussion around the belief that edge computing will be a foundational technology that enables the teams to render HTML dynamically, while still having an available, performant, and low-cost solution.

Join us for our next session with Andrew Hartnett, Vice President of Software Engineering at New Relic, for a presentation for how edge computing helped them smartly scale.

Speaker: Gustaf Nilsson Kotte, Senior Software Engineer at IKEA Retail (Ingka Group)

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New Relic collects data, at a massive scale, from around the world. The company needed an edge partner that could smartly scale with its needs. Fastly's Compute@Edge helps to solve that challenge.

When the New Relic data plane made the move out of its own data centers, the company needed the ability to smartly route our data to the desired “cells” in the cloud. The cells represented smaller snapshots of New Relic architecture and were deployed as separate, isolated environments containing a subset of all of our customers’ telemetry data. Pushing this routing logic as close as possible to the customer became important so partnering with an Edge partner was a must. The scale and reliability of this system became plagued with issues as New Relic was growing the number of requests 5% month over month, leading to outages for its customers.

New Relic had a previous relationship with Fastly. After some due diligence looking into Fastly’s Compute@Edge, the decision was made to move the majority of this traffic. In this presentation, Andrew will be talking more in-depth about how New Relic is using Compute@Edge to deliver a reliable and performant routing solution, how they got there, and will also expand on the New Relic-Fastly partnership as they add integrations between systems and services.

Join us for our next session with Sean McCarthy, Principal Product Manager, Video Technology Group, Paramount Global, for a discussion of greater innovation, significant cost and time savings and a measurably improved and personalized customer experience at Paramount.

Speaker: Andrew Hartnett, Vice President of Software Engineering at New Relic

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The promise of edge computing was greater innovation, significant cost and time savings and a measurably improved and personalized customer experience. The good news is that edge computing is here – and is more than delivering on this promise. In this presentation, Sean McCarthy, Principal Product Manager, Video Technology Group, Paramount, shares how edge computing can be leveraged to route around CDN performance issues, as well as prevent and mitigate video stream piracy, which has become a multi-billion-dollar problem – and not just for the entertainment industry. In this talk, Sean highlights two recent Fastly edge compute deployments, exploring the technical drivers for moving logic to the edge, the perceived benefits, and the wider content quality and security initiatives these applications support.

Join us for our next session with Margaret Arakawa, Chief Marketing Officer at Fastly, for an inside look at how Fastly powers and enables digital business outcomes.

Speaker: Sean McCarthy, Principal Product Manager, Video Technology Group at Paramount Global

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Our Chief Marketing Officer takes us behind the screens on how Fastly powers and enables digital business outcomes.

Join us for our next session with Greg McChesney, Staff Infrastructure Engineer at USAA, for a presentation of how a multi-CDN strategy and why Fastly's Compute@Edge was critical to meeting the needs of their military member customers.

Speaker: Margaret Arakawa, Chief Marketing Officer for Fastly

Continue our 2022 Altitude Series with Greg McChesney, Staff Infrastructure Engineer at USAA.

Today organizations need to deliver content and services to their members 24/7, without interruption, to stay competitive in a fast-changing economic environment. Yet businesses, due to regulations and other needs, can have different availability requirements. In this presentation, Greg McChesney, Staff Infrastructure Engineer, USAA, a leading insurance firm founded by military members for military members, provides an overview of the business requirements that led to the company obtaining multiple CDNs and why they chose Fastly. As a new Fastly customer, Greg then dives into a technical discussion to explain why the company chose Compute@Edge over traditional VCL and what organizations should consider with that approach.

Join us for our next session with Fastly's Kim Ogletree, Chief Customer Officer, and Anil Dash, Head of Glitch and VP Developer Experience, for an update on Glitch + Fastly and our pursuit of better developer and customer experiences.

Continue with our 2022 Altitude Series with Kim Ogletree, Chief Customer Officer at Fastly, and Anil Dash, Head of Glitch and VP Developer Experience at Fastly.

Our Chief Customer Officer and VP of Developer Experience come together for an update on Glitch + Fastly and our pursuit of better developer and customer experiences.

Join us for our next session with Fastly CTO and founding member, Tyler McMullen, and his forecast for the future of edge and the Fastly platform.

Our Altitude 2022 Series comes to a close with the closing remarks from Todd Nightingale, CEO of Fastly.

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Our Chief Technology Officer Tyler McMullen helps us close the series with a reflection on the future of the edge and the Fastly platform.

Join us for our last session for closing remarks from the 2022 Altitude conference with commentary from Todd Nightingale.

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Join Fastly's Nick Rockwell, EVP of Engineering and Infrastructure, as he shares a peak into a window of what’s new with Fastly’s global network, designed to be a highly-performant, available, controllable, efficient, and general-purpose fabric upon which our customers can program and innovate.

Join us for our next session with Bell Media for their discussion of leading content creation for the best experience to users, including using real-time logs to monitor and alert as well as help shape traffic, plan new features and their usability post-rollout, design disaster recovery scenarios for both live and VoD streaming, and much more.

Speaker: Nick Rockwell, EVP Engineering & Infrastructure at Fastly