Fastly: The Wiki CTO Who Built His Own CDN Because Nobody Could Purge a Cache Fast Enough
Fastly was founded in 2011 by Artur Bergman, then CTO of Wikia (now Fandom). At Wikia, user edits had to appear worldwide immediately, but no content delivery network could guarantee fast cache invalidation, so his team built a small CDN of its own. Bergman left in 2011 to turn it into a company, with Wikia as anchor customer and seven employees at launch in July 2011. Fastly raised a $40 million Series C in 2014, grew to serve Twitter, The Guardian and others, and went public on the NYSE in May
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