Compute learning and onboarding in Glitch

We’re working on ways to make it easier to onboard with Fastly Compute, leveraging Glitch – a friendly browser based environment that’s a great place to support guided learning. We’re starting a series of learning experiences that will walk you through enhancing site UX with Compute, but first we have an intro to edge computing itself.

What aspects of Compute onboarding have you found most challenging yourself or for your team?

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We have another instalment in this edge computing intro series where we explore where this edge thing is…

Next up we have some new guided resources for getting up to speed with Compute, walking you through setting up a service that customizes your website UX:

  • Adding geolocation info to the response
  • Password protecting pages at the edge
  • Building synthetic responses to 404 errors
  • Turning JSON into HTML

:magic_wand: Check out the demo:

You can complete the steps in a few different ways:

:open_book: Working through the tutorial: Enhance your site UX with Compute
:flags: Remixing the Glitch project and developing in the browser ~fastly-compute-starter
:house_with_garden: Developing in your local environment using the starter kit: @glitchdotcom/learn-compute

You can use the default Glitch origin or swap in your own website in the fastly.toml file.

:mega: This is a new direction for Fastly Compute learning, so if you try any of these out please share your feedback!

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