• Fastly, a cloud and edge services platform, acquired web application development platform Glitch for an undisclosed amount to integrate the platform with its own Fastly edge computing services. 

• Glitch enables over 1.8 million developers that are active on its platform to build and share full-stack web apps without requiring their own infrastructure or tool management. Fastly stated that it will leverage Glitch’s development team to form a new “Developer Experience” team within Fastly to create a number of new tools and resources for users. This includes remixable starter app templates, blogs, tutorials, and talks as well as easier pathways for gathering feedback.

<ul><li> Analyst QuickTake: This is the second developer-focussed acquisition and platform integration that Fastly has undertaken this year. In March, Fastly acquired FanOut , a platform to build and scale real-time and streaming APIs, to integrate Fanout technology into its own network and give Fastly users access to real-time app development at the edge.</ul>