OP works for Fastly, they're pushing a lot of "demos" like this in the hopes that one of them goes viral because nobody is using their serverless platform. Don't waste your time adding engagement to it, all they want is a few threads mentioning Fastly that don't mention the June 8th incident from 2021.
> An edge cloud does seem ideal for national live events though
OK, you almost had me believing you but "edge cloud" is 100% Fastly marketing speech. Any time I see somebody mention using Fastly, they turn out to be a Fastly employee. You've posted this demo three times already, give it a rest.
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.
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.
Fastly bought it because they were/are desperate to pivot away from CDN, since CDN has negative margins.