- Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) announces the availability of JavaScript in Compute@Edge, allowing developers more flexibility in Fastly's serverless compute environment with zero cold starts.
- Cold starts are a common startup latency for JavaScript in serverless environments that adds work for developers and can potentially compromise security.
- “When we launched Compute@Edge with a language-agnostic vision, JavaScript wasn’t one of the languages we evaluated for support, because at the time, it couldn’t compile to WebAssembly, meaning we wouldn’t have been satisfied with the security of JavaScript within our serverless compute environment,” says Fastly chief technology officer Tyler McMullen. “However, since we released Compute@Edge, JavaScript has been the most requested language to add, so it was top of our priority list once WebAssembly supported it."
- Fastly shares are up 1.4% to $52.23.
- Recent news: Last month, Fastly hired Fitbit exec Ron Kisling as the new chief financial officer.