SUMMARY
Enterprise IT professionals face daunting challenges in the highly disaggregated environment of today’s IT infrastructures. The desire to manage this complexity often leads to the prescriptive use of tech stacks and programming tools pinned to specific public-cloud and on-premises deployments. Unfortunately, developer efficiency and innovation can be stifled due to this approach. Furthermore, the need to ensure the highest levels of secure code can often lead to less time spent empowering developers to deliver innovative applications and services.
When it comes to supporting developer operations, organizations must strike a balance that enables both innovation and security. Simply embracing CI/CD pipelines is not enough, as seen in recent operational stumbles by organizations that have triggered widespread IT outages. Automation also plays an important role, as does the use of flexible coding tools and programmable networking architectures.
Moor Insights & Strategy believes that Fastly is well positioned to deliver a platform that enables a developer journey that is both innovative and secure. The company has created a compelling vision that supports developers, architecting a powerful platform that has been proven over fifteen years and providing extensive developer resources. The software-defined, open, and programmable API-enriched architecture supports interface flexibility, while a high degree of automation facilitates intelligent traffic routing and hardened security.
