Sue Smith
The Glitch team has been working on ways to integrate Fastly's caching, security, observability, and edge computing into your apps. While we make the experience as fun and easy as possible, we have some experimental projects we’d love your help testing. These projects let you spin up Fastly services for your Glitch sites, making them extra fast, reliable, and safe. You can even write logic to customize the user experience at the edge, like making it location-aware, or allowing the user to personalize the display.
Sound interesting? Read on to find out how to access a sneak peek!
Put your app behind the CDN
Our Fastly Hello World app lets you create a service to deliver your site from the CDN, and access the built-in security protection that’s provided by default. Your site visits will also auto-populate in Fastly’s Observability dashboards straight away, letting you see traffic in realtime. Just remix and follow the instructions in the README!
Customize the user experience at the edge
The Fastly Hello Compute app creates a compute service and includes code that runs at the edge, so that you can tailor the site user experience as it’s delivered. Inside the app you’ll find edge computing logic you can edit or extend – your Glitch project will build and deploy it to Fastly with a single terminal command. Remix and check out the project docs!
Join our community testing group
The Glitch forum has a dedicated section for our community testers, who help us trial all sorts of new functionalities, and give us incredibly useful feedback that we pass into future planning. The group recently tested using Fastly to put custom domains in front of Glitch sites (you can still take part in this – you'll even get two free TLS certificates). We’d love you to join us in the testing group – just reply to this forum thread and we’ll add you!
Let us know what you think!
It’s very exciting to be able to put these technologies in the hands of the Glitch community, because these powerful products are mostly used by large organizations. We have barely scratched the surface of what this tech is capable of, but it's the future of the web! We need you to help shape it in ways that are empowering to a wider range of people.
Develop your Glitch projects in the friendly environment you know and love, then give your users an enhanced experience delivered by Fastly.
We can’t wait to see what you build with this! Please let us know what you think of the experience – comment below, post in the community forum, or use any of our social media channels:
