The New Stack Podcast

Moonshots are the Bomb with Fastly's Tyler McMullen

Episode Summary

In this episode the TNS Makers, Tyler McMullen, Cofounder and CTO at Fastly, a leading content delivery networks (CDNs), sits down with TC Currie to talk about his passion for speed, why his engineers are required to spend part of their time on projects that are not likely to succeed, and what experienced engineers bring to the table (aside from their knowledge of C and Perl). On a daily basis, 10% of the requests on the internet go through Fastly.   Building on his earlier conversation with TNS correspondent Alex Handy, McMullen discusses the business use cases for edge computing and shares the “very large” Fastly stack.

Episode Notes

In this episode the TNS Makers, Tyler McMullen, Cofounder and CTO at Fastly, a leading content delivery networks (CDNs), sits down with TC Currie to talk about his passion for speed, why his engineers are required to spend part of their time on projects that are not likely to succeed, and what experienced engineers bring to the table (aside from their knowledge of C and Perl).

On a daily basis, 10% of the requests on the internet go through Fastly.   Building on his earlier conversation with TNS correspondent Alex Handy, McMullen discusses the business use cases for edge computing and shares the “very large” Fastly stack.