{"id":5398,"date":"2026-05-29T17:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:30:49","slug":"fastly-xcelerate-ldn-is-kind-of-a-vibe-why-you-should-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/fastly-xcelerate-ldn-is-kind-of-a-vibe-why-you-should-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastly Xcelerate LDN is kind of a vibe &#8211; why you should come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have known Simon Wistow a long time, and always enjoy hanging out with him. He&#8217;s a web application and performance OG, one of the co-founders of Fastly. The company runs a solid conference called Xcelerate in London every year &#8211; which feels kind of like an indie conference. I always meet engineers building cool things, and the content is technical, rather than marketing led.<\/p>\n<p>This is a video I recorded with Simon about the show this year.\u00a0 Xcelerate London 2026 is on June 10th this year &#8211; get your tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.fastly.com\/xcelerateldn\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' width='640' height='360' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nI_l0U1iLDM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;' sandbox='allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>disclosure statement- Fastly sponsored the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have known Simon Wistow a long time, and always enjoy hanging out with him. He&#8217;s a web application and performance OG, one of the co-founders of Fastly. The company runs a solid conference called Xcelerate in London every year &#8211; which feels kind of like an indie conference. I always meet engineers building cool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-1p4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}