{"id":73741,"date":"2026-04-10T09:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=73741"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:12:37","slug":"fastly-named-a-leader-in-edge-development-platforms-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/fastly-named-a-leader-in-edge-development-platforms-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastly named a Leader in Edge Development Platforms 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fastly, Inc., a leader in global edge cloud platforms, announced it has been named a Leader in \u201cThe Forrester Wave: Edge Development Platforms, Q1 2026 report.\u201d This report evaluates top platforms in the market that enable developers to build and deploy applications on distributed infrastructure closer to users and data sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fastly believes its recognition as a Leader reinforces its strong position among the top edge development platforms. The company was also the only evaluated vendor to receive above-average customer feedback.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Forrester Wave report: \u201ccustomers highlight Fastly\u2019s strong performance, reliability, and developer experience,\u201d and \u201cpraise the vendor\u2019s highly engaged technical support and proactive partnership\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Forrester Wave notes: \u201cFastly\u2019s strategy emphasises a global compute fabric rooted in Wasm security, interoperability, and deterministic performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The evaluation further notes that, \u201cFastly aims to strengthen its already impressive innovative position in AI\u2011assisted development and edge\u2011first event streaming while expanding containers and components to increase workload flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Forrester\u2019s report states, \u201cFastly is a top choice for performance\u2011critical, event\u2011driven, security\u2011sensitive, and globally consistent edge workloads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganizations across all industries now differentiate in their markets by delivering resilient, highly performant, always-on software. Investing in edge platforms helps them achieve these ambitions at global scale,\u201d said Kelly Shortridge, Chief Product Officer at Fastly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo us, this recognition positions Fastly as the essential foundation for enterprises to translate software delivery investments into continuous competitive advantage. Our global compute fabric weaves the security, performance, and consistency enterprises need to expedite innovation and invent new app paradigms that transform their business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fastly believes its recognition as a Leader reinforces its strong position among the top edge development platforms. The company was also the only evaluated vendor to receive above-average customer feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":73742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5485,8001,96],"class_list":["post-73741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-edge-computing","tag-fastly-inc","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73743,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73741\/revisions\/73743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}