Fastly (FSLY) announces the acquisition of web coding platform, Glitch to aid customer growth.
The stock market was having another negative day on Thursday, with the S&P 500 down by about 0.7% as of 12:50 p.m. ET. The Glitch team plans to form a new Developer Experience team within Fastly that will give users more resources and tools and add to Fastly's offerings. As Glitch CEO Anil Dash said in a press release, "By teaming up with Fastly, we're going to be able to give superpowers to our community of millions of coders and creators and set the stage for them to tap into the huge potential of Fastly's globally distributed edge platform in the future."
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2022--Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), the world’s fastest edge cloud platform, today announced it has acquired Glitch, a developer platform where more than 1.8 million developers innovate, create, and share full-stack web apps without having to run the infrastructure or manage tools themselves.