KeychainPirate
9 hours 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.
jkarneges
9 hours ago
> Does Fastly support WebSockets yet?
It does! Can be served at the edge or passed through to origin.
KeychainPirate
8 hours 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.
jkarneges
6 hours 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.