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title: Fastly Xcelerate London - why you should go.
date: 2026-05-29T18:04:26Z
modified: 2026-06-12T18:19:02Z
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timestamp: 2026-06-12T18:19:02Z
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We’ve known Simon Wistow a long time. He’s a web application and performance OG, one of the co-founders of Fastly. The company runs a conference called Xcelerate in London every year – which feels kind of like an indie conference. You meet engineers building cool things, and the content is technical, rather than marketing led. So here is James Governor and Simon Wistow chatting about it.

disclosure: this is a sponsored video.