FSLY

Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY) is a cloud computing services provider that offers a content delivery network (CDN) and edge computing platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company was founded in 2011. Fastly's services are designed to help businesses deliver digital content, such as websites, videos, and applications, to their users quickly and reliably.

The core of Fastly's offering is its distributed network of servers located around the globe. This edge network allows data to be cached closer to end-users, significantly reducing latency and improving performance. Beyond traditional CDN capabilities, Fastly has expanded into edge computing, enabling developers to run code directly on its edge servers. This allows for real-time data processing, personalization, and other dynamic functionalities without the need to send requests back to a central origin server.

Fastly serves a diverse range of customers, including major media companies, e-commerce platforms, and technology firms. The company's platform is known for its programmability and flexibility, allowing customers to customize their content delivery and edge compute strategies. Fastly's business model is primarily based on usage, with customers paying for the amount of data transferred and the compute resources utilized. The company competes in the cloud infrastructure and CDN market with other providers offering similar services.