How GIPHY Handles Tens of Billions of Requests Daily with Fastly Edge Cloud Platform

Fastly
359 views February 18, 2026

How does GIPHY handle tens of billions of requests per day — with traffic spikes reaching 400,000 requests per second? In this video, Vitor Pereira shares how GIPHY powers hundreds of petabytes of monthly content delivery using Fastly’s edge cloud platform. ”There’s no way GIPHY would be the popular platform that we are nowadays without Fastly.” - Vitor Pereira, Engineering Manager Learn more here: https://www.fastly.com/customers/giphy

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