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    Go from zero to Fastly with this step-by-step guide.

    Getting started

    These articles provide basic instructions for getting started with Fastly services.

    Basics

    These articles provide basic information and instructions for configuring Fastly services after getting started.

    Domains & Origins

    These articles describe configuration settings and changes you can make to your domains and origins when setting up Fastly services.

    Configuration

    These articles provide basic instructions for configuring Fastly services after getting started.

    Caching

    These articles describe configuration settings and changes you can make to your cache settings when setting up Fastly services.

    Conditions

    These articles describe conditions and how to use them in VCL and the Fastly web interface.

    Custom VCL

    These articles describe how to create your own VCL files with specialized configurations.

    Dictionaries

    These articles describe how to move rapid key/value pair decision logic to the edge using dictionaries.

    Domains & Origins

    These articles describe configuration settings and changes you can make to your domains and origins when setting up Fastly services.

    Headers

    These articles describe configuration settings and changes you can make to your headers when setting up Fastly services.

    Image optimization

    These articles provide basic instructions for and examples of setting up and beginning to use the Fastly Image Optimizer.

    Load balancing

    These articles provide information about distributing requests across multiple servers to optimize resource use and avoid overloading any single resource.

    Performance

    These articles describe how to adjust the performance of Fastly's services beyond standard configuration methods.

    Purging

    These articles describe how to purge cache.

    Requests

    These articles describe configuration settings and changes you can make to requests when working with Fastly services.

    Responses

    These articles describe configuration settings and changes you can make to your response settings when setting up Fastly services.

    Video

    These articles describe setup and configuration guidelines for setting up live stream delivery or video on-demand.

    Security

    These articles provide information about the administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that protect the Fastly CDN service, as well as describe how to secure communications between Fastly and your origin servers and customers.

    Access Control Lists

    These articles describe how to restrict access to resources by allowing or blocking IP addresses with access control lists (ACLs).

    Securing communications

    These articles describe how to secure communications between Fastly, your origin servers, and your customers.

    Security measures

    These articles provide information about the administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that protect the Fastly CDN service.

    TLS

    These articles describe how to set up TLS certificates with Fastly services.

    Web Application Firewall

    These articles provide information about the Fastly Web Application Firewall (WAF) security product.

    Legacy Web Application Firewall

    These articles provide information about the legacy Fastly Web Application Firewall (WAF) security product.

    Integrations

    These articles describe how non-Fastly services interoperate with Fastly.

    Logging endpoints

    These articles describe Fastly's support for protocols that allow you to stream logs to a variety of locations, including third-party services, for storage and analysis.

    Non-Fastly services

    These articles describe how non-Fastly services interoperate with Fastly.

    Diagnostics

    These articles describe how to log data, troubleshoot problems, and tune performance.

    Common errors

    These articles describe common errors you may encounter when setting up and configuring Fastly services.

    Debugging techniques

    Because Fastly doesn't store customer logs, we provide information about debugging techniques that help you gain insights into your service configurations.

    Streaming logs

    These articles describe how we support real-time log streaming of data that passes through Fastly.

    Account info

    These articles describe how to manage account access, billing, and security.

    Account management

    These articles describe how to manage account access.

    Billing

    These articles describe Fastly's billing and payment plans and how to make adjustments to your billing information.

    User access and control

    These articles describe how to manage users with permission to access to your account.

    Reference

    These articles provide reference information about common Fastly terms and configuration settings.

    Glossary of terms

    These are common Fastly, HTTP, and networking terms you may encounter within our service guides.

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    Resource limits

    This guide details Fastly resource limits and summarizes the implications of exceeding those limits.

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