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Geo fencing allows you to ensure that media assets can only be accessed in a given country or region. In this blog, I'll walk through how you can set up a simple web app that runs on Heroku. With this app, you can serve a basic page with a specific video asset hosted on NetStorage for any requests starting with...

Protecting websites against SQL injections and other security attacks has never been easier. In this blog post, I'll demonstrate a workflow that allows to protect against an SQL injection attack by configuring a firewall at the Edge. See the full demo at the end of this post.  For the origin, I used a PHP web server called DVWA (available in...

The Akamai command-line interface (CLI) is a powerful and extensible toolkit that allows you to manage and configure Akamai's platform and various products directly from the command line. For those of you doing DevOps, the CLI simplifies the integration of Akamai into your existing CI/CD automation. It delivers a unified developer experience for anyone who needs to work with or...

The Akamai Development Environment comes in the form of a Docker container pre-loaded with our command line interface (CLI) and many CLI packages and third party tools like HTTPie, curl, and Terraform that allow you to automate the management of Akamai services easily. Introducing the technology: Docker | Docker containers encapsulate everything an application needs to run (and only those...

Akamai offers solutions for web, API, media, security, IoT, enterprise applications, infrastructure solutions, and DNS. Managing all those services was traditionally done using the Akamai Control Center, but it can be time consuming when you have a large number of properties and services with frequent updates. This is where APIs come into place. Akamai offers a rich library of more...

Suggesting relevant search terms while a user types in a search box is a common practice on many websites and search engines. It provides a relevant and fast response that is essential for an excellent user experience.  But tuning autocomplete is not easy — search requests frequently change and typically include long-tail keywords. This article describes some of the strategies...

If you are using the alerting functionality in Akamai Security Monitor, this post will show you how to replicate them in Web Security Analytics. Our Web Security Analytics tool enables you to create alerts so you can stay informed about notable events as well as perform incident response, analysis, and tuning for your Akamai cloud security products.  For more background,...

This blog post will give you an intro to real user monitoring, walk you through how to create an anomaly detection alert, and different models that can help express the information you need.  Overview | mPulse is a RUM (Real User Monitoring) engine that enables you to visually inspect the performance of your websites.  It provides tools like alerts to...

Developer Webinars are coming your way!  Hey Developers! The Akamai Developer Team is working hard to put together a series of awesome webinar topics that focus on helping you solve problems that you face in your everyday roles.  We’ll be introducing you to tons of industry experts from all over the world to give you insights into relevant trends, troubleshooting...

Background on IPv6 | With Internet growth exceeding the limited number of IPv4 addresses, many ISPs and service providers have broadly deployed IPv6. Hosts available over both IPv6 and IPv4 are known as dual stacked. Akamai recommends that sites be enabled with IPv6 wherever possible, both for performance and scale.  For some countries with extensive IPv6 deployment (including the U.S....