# Here's what our Fast Forward program members have been up to!

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**Created:** [May 17, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.fastly.com/t/heres-what-our-fast-forward-program-members-have-been-up-to/155 "2023-05-17T15:20:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.fastly.com/t/heres-what-our-fast-forward-program-members-have-been-up-to/155/1 "2023-05-17T15:20:29Z")

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It’s been a busy spring for Fast Forward! Here’s a round-up of some big news from our program members:

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/fastly1/original/1X/b0cd6268eae1222ad1c4ba4e814b635f99161493.jpeg "Kubernetes Infra SIG: Intro and Updates - Arnaud Meukam, Independent & Davanum Srinivas") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QAElyKyN1o)

- At Kubernetes contributor summit, Arnaud Meukam, the Kubernetes Infra SIG lead, gave a readout of their work over the past year and what’s next — including switching to Fastly.

> **[Eugen Rochko (@Gargron@mastodon.social)](https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/110361574826121383)**
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> Before I leave for my honeymoon I wanted to share what we've been up to at #Mastodon. Here's a new Patreon update!
> 
> https://www.patreon.com/posts/may-update-82941004

- Eugen Rochko, CEO of Mastodon, sent out an update on all things Mastodon before heading out on his honeymoon. Have a great trip, Eugen!

> **[Moving from Cloudflare to Fastly](https://colby.fyi/moving-from-cloudflare-to-fastly)**
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> Content Warning: Suicide
> Ruby API is an open-source project that aims to improve Ruby’s documentation by investing in search & UX to encourage discovery and giving users tools to find what they want quickly. For search, we utilize ElasticSearch,...

- Colby Swandale, contributor to Ruby, RubyGems, and the Ruby API, shared his reasons for switching to Fastly.

> **[Lorem Picsum, death by a million pixel-gigabits | David Marby](https://dmarby.se/blog/lorem-picsum/)**
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> Updated 2023-04-16
> Or how to serve half a billion placeholder images a month on a budget.
> Lorem Picsum is one of the most popular placeholder sites on the internet. It started as a small side project written in NodeJS five years ago to cover my own...

- And David Marby, the maintainer of Lorem Picsum, shared how he keeps the service running while serving nearly 3 billion requests a month to over 50 million users.

What have you been working on this spring? Do you have news to share? Post it here so we can celebrate you! 💞

-ha