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Austin Spires

Senior Director of Technology Marketing

Austin Spires is Sr Dir of Technology Marketing at Fastly, where he focuses on user experience. He’s been working on developer tools and customer happiness for many years, and frequently speaks at conferences and meetups. Before Fastly, Austin worked in sales and support at GitHub, where he helped lead customer onboarding. Originally from Texas, Austin plays a mean bass and likes drinking the occasional beer.

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  • Test New Encodings With Fastly, Including WebP

    Rogier Mulhuijzen, Austin Spires

    At Fastly, we believe that the freedom to experiment is what makes the web great. We're excited by the cutting edge breakthroughs in file encodings that are happening almost every day, making the web better and faster.

  • Level Up Your Log: Pro Tips for Streaming Logs

    Austin Spires

    Streaming logs is one of our most popular features. It's fast and flexible, giving operations teams more data from the edge than ever before and in real time. Since its release, we've seen Fastly customers use some cool tricks in configuring their log streams for a wide variety of use cases, and we wanted to share some tips.