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Fastly Put the Internet on Fast-Forward. Then One Customer Found the Brake.
Fastly made a business of shaving milliseconds from the web and giving developers unusual control over the edge. Its biggest outage showed the bargain hiding inside that speed - and its recovery offers a practical playbook for anyone building critical infrastructure.
Quantum Metric Found the Million-Dollar Bugs Hiding Between Your Dashboards
A checkout error looks tiny until someone prices the lost carts. Quantum Metric built a business turning digital friction into a number executives can act on - and is now asking an AI analyst to do the detective work.
WP Engine
WP Engine built a large business by taking the anxiety out of WordPress. Now it is turning that trusted foundation into an operating layer for publishers, stores, agencies and AI-powered websites.
imgix
imgix is a San Francisco-based visual media platform that optimizes, transforms, and delivers images and video in real time through a simple URL-based API. Founded in 2011 by former YouTube web developer Chris Zacharias, imgix lets developers resize, crop, compress, convert formats, and now apply AI edits such as background removal and generative fill simply by appending parameters to an image URL, offloading image infrastructure to a globally distributed CDN. The company serves tens of thousands of customers, including Unsplash, Kickstarter, Eventbrite, and Porsche, and delivers on the order of billions of image requests a day.