Fastly continues to delve deeper into the Edge with the acquisition of Glitch

Glitch, a company that offers a platform that allows developers to create, build and share complete web applications (also in edge environments), has been acquired by Fastly.

One of the main motivations that have led to this movement has been the pleasant collaboration experience that both brands shared in February 2022. At that time, Fastly integrated its Compute@Edge in the interface Glitch, allowing the platform's community of 1.8 million developers to Deploy your code to the Fastly compute environment.

Once Fastly dug deeper into the Glitch platform, it discovered a “powerful and flexible environment” that has made it “incredibly easy” for developers to work on. full-stack web applications without having to worry about how to configure and administer a server, manage DNS, install a database or figure out the best way to deploy your code. “Literally, you just have to press a button and your application will be live and direct, while Glitch takes care of the rest in the background,” he says. Lakshmi Sharma, product and strategy manager Fastly.

At the same time, Glitch It also provides inspiration through its “remixable” code, making development even easier. If a developer likes an app created by someone else, but needs to modify it to fit their project specifications or to make it their own, they can simply remix and deploy it. This remix culture has allowed Glitch to create a collaborative community of developers who support each other to build apps, sites and tools, something that also attracts users from large companies such as Google, Stripe, Twitter, Notion y Etsy.

Creating a community at the edge

After consolidating Compute@Edge As an option for enterprise developers to build applications on Fastly's edge network with all the performance, security, and scale they need, the company wants to continue expanding its market share con small, medium and large companies. Fastly, through Sharma, has confirmed its commitment to “nurturing the Glitch developer community,” which they consider “one of the most incredible and lively creator communities on the internet today.”

For Glitch's part, Anil Dash, CEO, has stressed that the company is “incredibly excited” to join Fastly in order to bring the “potential” of the platform to many more developers: “We are especially excited to think about the new and innovative things that people will build when we bring Fastly's global network to all the developers who have an idea for an application that they can't wait to create.”