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by KeychainPirate 612 days ago
This blogpost is bitter and weird. Cloudflare is announcing an improvement in their platform, and Fastly is responding with a weird flex about losing their competitive advantage?

As a customer, I don't really care which vendor had the edge 10 years ago, I just want to compare features today. Does Fastly support WebSockets yet? This just highlights how little Fastly is doing recently.
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jkarneges 612 days ago
> Does Fastly support WebSockets yet?

It does! Can be served at the edge or passed through to origin.

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KeychainPirate 612 days ago
According to the docs WebSockets are still incompatible with WAF and Origin Shield...

https://docs.fastly.com/products/websockets

If I'm not using Origin Shield, and I can't use WAF, why would I bother with Fastly when AWS Cloudfront is a fraction of the cost (And has WebSockets): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...

I just don't understand what Fastly has been doing for the past few years, it seems like they're just selling bandwidth these days.

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jkarneges 612 days ago
I'm not sure there'd be much benefit to using shielding with WebSockets, since the traffic wouldn't be cached/collapsed. You can still shield HTTP traffic on the same domain being used for WebSockets.

WAF could be nice though.

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