Fastly Nearline Cache Built in Compute@Edge

Fastly, Inc. announced Nearline Cache, a storage solution for customers with large content libraries, like streaming media, gaming, and software companies.

It was built in the same serverless compute environment that forms the foundation of the company’s Compute@Edge product, enabling the firm‘s product development team to deliver a host of customer benefits and realize development and operational efficiencies.

Building Nearline Cache in Compute@Edge validates the foundational promise of the technology to enable breakthrough innovations at scale more easily and quickly. Compute@Edge allowed the company to deliver the global scale and performance customers require, while also reducing their operational overhead and eliminating the unpredictable costs typical with competing solutions. The advantages for the firm were accelerated development time, global service deployment ins, and the ability to fully leverage the power of the company’s performance, software defined global network.

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“The powerful serverless compute environment we built to help customers innovate quickly has brought those same benefits to Fastly,” said Nick Rockwell, SVP, engineering. “It is a really strong proof point for the value of Compute@Edge and Fastly’s ability to innovate faster – it’s a differentiator we plan on leveraging across our product lines, including security, delivery and compute. And Nearline Cache is an important addition to our capabilities, enabling customers with large content libraries to lower costs by storing long-tail content closer to their end users.“

Compute@Edge enables organizations to build scale, globally distributed applications and microservices in a fast serverless compute environment that runs on the firm‘s edge cloud platform. Designed to address the requirements of modern app development including CI/CD and DevOps workflows, it allows organizations to reduce infrastructure costs and scale instantly with better performance, enhanced visibility, and reduced latency. At 35.4μs, It provides a 100x faster code execution start-up time than other serverless solutions. And customers gain visibility into app development through granular real-time metrics, logging and tracing.

Nearline Cache enables organizations to automatically populate and store content in cloud storage that doesn’t incur egress costs near a company’s point-of-presence (POP), while pulling content accessed later back into cache. This results in reduced TCO for long-tail content storage and delivery. Additionally, it instinctively auto-populates itself on the first cache miss asynchronously, minimizing latency for a better user experience.

The ability to use Compute@Edge to immediately and globally deploy an application like Nearline Cache, with critical development tools like Log Tailing, shows that the company’s customers can lean on the solution to reduce the overall develop, test, and deploy cycle.

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Blog: Introducing Nearline Cache, the first of our commercial solutions to be built in our serverless compute environment – but not the last