Tyler McMullen

Chief Technology Officer, Fastly

Tyler McMullen is CTO at Fastly, the leading edge cloud platform, where he is responsible for evolving the system architecture and the company’s technology vision. He leads a team of experienced technology innovators focused on internet scale, and works on future-facing, ambitious projects and standards. As part of the founding team at Fastly, McMullen built the first versions of Fastly’s Instant Purging system, API, and real-time analytics, while scaling the engineering team tenfold. Prior to joining Fastly, McMullen worked on large scale web applications, text analysis and performance. He can be found talking about edge computing, networking and distributed systems all over the world.

USA 2020
Session ID 20836

February 26, 2020
8:00AM - 8:50AM

Secure Sandboxing in a Post-Spectre World

Jonathan Foote and Tyler McMullen

In the pursuit of stronger and more efficient ways to isolate and contain untrusted code, the industry has developed a variety of sandboxing technologies. In this session, you’ll learn more about WebAssembly and newly open-sourced Lucet, the bright lights in secure edge computing with lower resource and performance costs than competing approaches to multi-tenant isolation of native code.

Pre-Requisites: Understanding of edge computing.

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