User talk:Jagger at Fastly

Submitting Acquisitions section draft for review
Hi there! Up front, I should disclose my conflict of interest: I'm a Fastly employee, which is why I'm using the edit request system as opposed to directly editing the company's article myself. In the post above this one, User:Nickgray suggested creating an Acquisitions section. I thought this was a good idea, so I wrote a section draft:

In August 2020, Fastly announced it was acquiring cybersecurity company Signal Sciences for $775 million ($200 million in cash and $575 million in stock). The acquisition was made with the intention of improving Fastly's edge security, as well as the security of its applications and APIs. At the time the purchase was announced, Signal Sciences was protecting approximately 40,000 applications and a trillion production requests per month. Shortly after the announcement was made, Fastly's stock price rose by about seven percent.

Fastly expanded its edge cloud services through the acquisition of Fanout in March 2022. The purchase gave developers using Fastly's edge network the ability to build real-time and streaming APIs with their existing HTTP stack without having to maintain a WebSocket stack.

In May 2022, Fastly announced it had acquired Glitch, a web coding platform with more than 1.8 million developers. Glitch apps were subsequently integrated into Fastly's edge computing services and content delivery network, and Fastly customers were given access to Glitch's development tools. As part of the deal, Glitch CEO Anil Dash joined Fastly as its VP of developer engagement.

In August 2023, it was announced that Fastly had acquired Domainr, a domain search engine. The Domainr API allows developers to instantly check the availability of domain names and monitor them within their own apps and services.

This draft covers all the company's significant acquisitions over the past few years, and explains, wherever possible, what the company Fastly acquired was known for at the time of the purchase and the way(s) that company's assets were integrated into Fastly's operation.

I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I should note that if some form of this draft is approved and an Acquisitions section is added to the article, whoever adds the text will probably also want to delete the brief passages about Signal Sciences, Glitch, and Domainr from the History section. But we can cross that bridge when we come to it. In the meantime, I invite independent editors to review my draft and let me know what they think. Thank you! Jagger at Fastly (talk) 16:33, 18 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Please make the edit request at the talk page of the article concerned, not at your user talk page. Shadow311 (talk) 19:08, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Moved to Talk:Fastly.  (talk | contribs) 10:25, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the mistake User:Shadow311 and User:CanonNi! The request, as Canon has indicated, is now on the Fastly Talk page. I'll make sure to post there from now on. Jagger at Fastly (talk) 06:45, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
 * No problem.  (talk | contribs) 06:47, 23 April 2024 (UTC)