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August 23, 2016

Useful Fastly features

Hi there,

There are five easy things you can do to get the most out of Fastly:

* Enable Origin Shield designate a single point of presence (POP) to host cached content from your servers, which reduces strain on your infrastructure and protects your origin during high-traffic events.
* Use streaming logs get more historical and real-time data from the edge than ever before, leading to full visibility and faster fixes.
* Configure automatic gzipping make your site faster while reducing monthly bandwidth charges.
* Serve stale content keep cached resources up-to-date, prevent broken pages, and ultimately give your users a faster web experience.
* Set up surrogate keys group related objects (every article on a homepage or every item in a specific online sale) with a key to cache and purge them at the same time.

As always, let us know if you have any questions! We’re here to help.

The Fastly Team

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