How Fastly Designs for Failure and Prevents Micro Outages

Modern digital infrastructure must be built with failure in mind. Micro outages, network disruptions, and sudden traffic surges can impact performance, availability, and customer trust if systems are not designed for resilience. In this video, Fastly breaks down its Pillars of Resilience and explains how its edge platform is engineered to withstand failure, isolate problems, and maintain availability across a globally distributed network. You can also find Brian’s deep dive blogs on these principles here: https://www.fastly.com/blog/fastlys-pillars-of-resilience-building-a-more-robust-internet https://www.fastly.com/blog/design-for-chaos-fastlys-principles-of-fault-isolation-and-graceful https://www.fastly.com/blog/build-for-scale-principles-distributed-decision-making-self-healing-systems https://www.fastly.com/blog/deploy-for-performance-fastlys-principles-infrastructure-diversity https://www.fastly.com/blog/an-indispensable-pillar-of-resilience-the-human