FSLY appears to be following up with their more aggressive release of ComputeEdge. See news today.
Here’s a link to the latest blog post on it: https://www.fastly.com/blog/observability-compute-edge
Some snippets:
Today, we’re announcing critical new observability features for Compute@Edge — logging, tracing capabilities, and granular, real-time metrics. These features, which are now available in beta, bring observability to the forefront of the serverless compute environment.
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You can correlate and stitch together the lifetime of a request in a third-party visualization system, like Splunk or Datadog, after for further analysis. It’s easy to set up and lets you trace function performance after deployment.
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When you’re developing, a println on Compute@Edge works the same as a println on your laptop.
If you’re a developer, these are big deals. Sounds like debugging in this serverless environment is pretty easy. As an ex-developer myself, having “print” work on a just-started-up-for-me-then-killed-right-afterwards process is a godsend. And having all sorts of data available to be easily pumped into Splunk or DataDog (!) will give you great overall metrics.
For me, it’s a sign of a mature company when even a new offering isn’t just about features or performance, but about how usable it is. That Fastly is doing Compute@Edge in a Beta is, for me anyway, a sign that when they finally open it up it’ll be a winner. Note that they’ll be going from Beta to Limited Availability this year. When Fastly releases it to what may be called GA (General Availability) it’ll be purchasable, like all of Fastly, via the web - no need to call a salesperson unless you want some advice.