Glitch acquired by cloud service provider Fastly
by Jacob Kastrenakes from The Verge - All Posts on (#5ZDKQ)
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Fastly, a major provider of cloud services, announced today that it's acquiring Glitch, the quirky and capable web coding platform. Glitch will continue to operate within Fastly, with Fastly planning to grow the team and enable Glitch apps to tap into its edge computing services.
Glitch CEO Anil Dash will join Fastly as its VP of developer experience, overseeing Glitch and a new team focused on creating a repository of tools and resources" to help people start using Fastly's products.
The web is back as a place that people want to create, and you have to have this bigger platform to do it," Dash tells The Verge.
This edge platform that they've built is cool as shit."
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