Fastly Cloud Platform Commits $50 Million to Help Open-Source Projects for Free

Fastly is a cloud platform that provides edge services such as CDN, WAF, Bot protection, DDoS mitigation, and more.

They provide incredibly high-performance solutions that enterprises around the world use.

📢 With a recent announcement, Fastly launched a new initiative to support open-source projects, developers, and non-profits.

Fastly's 'Fast Forward' Initiative

Fastly supports open-source projects such as The H20 project, wit-bindgen, pushpin, and more.

In addition, they have been involved with organizations such as IETF and W3C to contribute to various open-source protocols and standards.

With this initiative, they aim to further expand their support to projects that freely distribute their codebase and align with Fastly's open-source principles.

Fastly also emphasizes that they are trying to build a safer internet with the help of their customers and community.

Outreach programs like this should make this more achievable.

To further solidify their support, they are committing $50 million in free services to open-source projects and the non-profits who support them.

That sounds promising! 😃 And mindblowing! 🤯

Fastly is also a founding member of the 'Bytecode Alliance' alongside Red Hat, Intel, and Mozilla.

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Bytecode Alliance is a nonprofit organization that focuses on building open standards such as WebAssembly, and WASI.

If you are curious, they have collaborated with Microsoft, Google, and Apple to develop privacy and security-focused initiatives like Private Access Tokens, Private Relay and Passkeys.