Fastly — Leader in Forrester Wave: Edge Development Platforms Q1 2026

Fastly's announcement blog post reporting its placement in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q1 2026.

Key facts (2026-06-02, Tier 1 primary fetch):

• Placement: Leader — one of only two Leaders named in the Q1 2026 Wave.
• Evaluation scores: Perfect 5/5 across eight criteria: Innovation, Developer Experience, Performance, Observability (among others listed in the full report).
• Customer feedback: Highest above-average customer feedback score among all evaluated vendors in the Wave.
• Platform scope: Forrester assessed Fastly's Compute platform on edge serverless capabilities, developer tooling, and runtime performance — areas that support real-time personalization, API acceleration, and decisioning at the edge.

Relationship to existing KG nodes:

• Adds analyst validation to vendor.fastly beyond the existing product-page source (source.fastly-com.products-edge-compute-2026).
• Partially addresses the long-standing gap in non-vendor analyst coverage for concept.edge-decisioning: Forrester's Edge Development Platforms Wave is not a personalization-engine report, but it independently confirms Fastly's leadership in the edge compute substrate that enables inter-page CDP decisioning.
• Technical Reviewer should consider adding a "Analyst recognition" section to vendor.fastly body citing this placement.
• Addresses the edge decisioning platforms Gartner Forrester analyst report queue entry (added 2026-05-07); though the report category is "Edge Development Platforms" rather than "Personalization Engines," it is the strongest non-vendor, non-paywalled Forrester evidence for edge decisioning infrastructure available from this runtime.