Episode 6 already!

In this episode, the hosts discuss the importance of real-time user experience, focusing on technologies like WebSockets and Fanout. They explore how these technologies enhance user engagement, improve communication, and create new use cases. The conversation delves into the differences between WebSockets and Fanout, their respective use cases, and when to choose one over the other. The hosts emphasize the significance of performance and scalability in modern applications, advocating for the adoption of Fanout as a superior solution for real-time messaging.

Code closer to users, no origin needed — sounds like magic, right?

In this episode Lisa, Markus and Nisse dig into what edge computing actually is, how Fastly runs your code globally in microseconds, and what you can build with it. From A/B testing to originless quiz apps built with nothing but a KV store — the use cases might surprise you. Oh, and yes, they vibe coded most of it.

Finally our favorite topic! Cash, no sorry, cache!

Caching your content is good for user experience, your wallet and sustainability and that is what this episode is all about.

We will at length discuss our favorite header, the cache-control header as well as caching strategies. How you should think about caching and why the least controllable cache is also your best friend.

In this episode we are discussing how to handle a thundering herd. How a viral moment or sudden success can affect your online presence. We will cover what you can do about it with some guidelines on how to think and what tools you have at your disposal.

This is a webinar episode turned podcast so audio quality can be somewhat lower.

Welcome to the future. As we kick off 2026, the Fastly team sits down to look past the horizon of the modern web. In this episode, we move beyond the AI hype to discuss the "Post-Hype"

reality: how distributed intelligence at the Edge is reshaping security, performance, and the very fabric of the internet. Join us as we break down our top predictions for the year ahead

and explore what it really means to run the internet in 2026.

In this first full length episode of Edge Talks we discuss DDOS, where they come from, what they look like and most importantly how you should protect yourself against them.

(Lower audio quality)

Welcome to this Introduction episode of Edge Talks! A podcast about life on the edge of the Internet.

In this episode we'll excuse ourselves from the bad audio quality in a couple of future episodes and give you a peek behind the curtains on why it is so. We will also give you more on what this podcast is all about!