Taking your apps to the Edge: Fastly x Glitch

Right at the beginning of 2022, we launched an all-new editor for Glitch, with the promise of lots of improvements to come. So we’re excited to talk about how Fastly is powering some of the coolest new features.

If you don’t know Fastly, they’re a super popular, super powerful platform for delivering sites and apps more quickly, reliably and securely. So we started with what Fastly is best known for — their content delivery network, or CDN. Now, when you upload assets in the all-new Glitch editor, they’re automatically delivered by Fastly’s super-fast CDN, and you don’t have to do any configuration or additional deploy process. (It even works great with assets like 3D objects, which are newly supported in the Glitch editor!)

But what’s even more exciting is the possibilities this opens up for the future. Fastly has a really clever new edge platform called Compute@Edge that is lightning fast and will let you build smarter, more dynamic sites more easily than ever. We’re gearing up for being able to publish your Glitch projects to Fastly — including the long-awaited desire to have separate dev and production versions of your app, with deploy as simple as a click. When it all comes together you'll be able to publish lightning-fast static sites and Compute@Edge will let you build more sophisticated Glitch apps that scale infinitely — with 100x faster code execution startup times than other serverless solutions!

You can try out the fast new assets in the Glitch editor today, and then sign up to join the waiting list for the exciting beta preview to come!