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Join us for this live webinar on Wednesday, March 27th at 10:00 AM PDT where we'll discuss the nuts and bolts of how real user monitoring (RUM) works and how Burton Snowboards is using RUM to elevate their performance every day.

As we relentlessly strive to improve the user experience for Akamai customers, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some specific updates coming to our Akamai cloud security products in the next few months. As we roll out these improvements—which will continue from now through June—banner messaging will appear in your Akamai interface to inform you of the latest...

The 2019 Great International Developer Summit (GIDS) is coming back to Bangalore at the Indian Institute of Science from April 22-26, 2019. For 12 years, this annual event has been a hub for software professionals to get insight on the industry’s latest tools, services, projects, platforms, languages and standards from recognized tech speakers and key companies. Akamai is excited to...

Akamai’s Prolexic Routed is a powerful DDoS defense that protects your data center infrastructure against large, complex attacks. One of the advantages of being protected by Prolexic Routed is that you can get deep insight into the traffic traversing Akamai’s DDoS scrubbing network. Many Prolexic customers—often large enterprises with highly complex network footprints—have told us that Akamai is the only...

We wanted to give you some timely information on the latest update to Akamai’s Web Application Protector. The update includes these changes (click to jump to any selection): Two new attack groups Renamed “Web DoS Attack” group Changes to the home screen Support for wildcard hostnames Coming soon: protection improvements for API traffic Here are further details on each item:...

An API is only useful if gets in front of its intended audience, and that includes both the initial launch of the API and—perhaps more importantly—its many subsequent improvement iterations. Deployment velocity becomes critical to the success of your API as you iterate; simply put, you’ve got to get the improved version in front of the audience as quickly as...

Mobile phones and apps have become a key part of modern life around the world, and as a result, the number of apps continues to skyrocket (there are at least 2.1 million Android apps available today). As an Android developer, it’s more important than ever to create apps that delight users, because the competition among apps is fierce. And do...

The Akamai Edge World conference, coming this June in Las Vegas, is Akamai's premier global conference and it needs your story. The call for presentations is now open, so jump right in.

The genesis of Akamai Sandbox goes back two years, when we discovered that many Akamai customers were making changes to their configs more frequently than we expected. When we started talking to these customers, we discovered three main patterns: Multiple teams: An Akamai config is usually managed by multiple teams, where each team owns a part of the logic within...

This is a guest post by Andy Davies, an exceedingly affable independent web performance consultant. -Editor In early 2015, HTTP/2 (a.k.a. h2) was finally approved as a standard, and it’s now widely supported by modern browsers, servers, load-balancers, and CDNs. Usage has been growing steadily since, and today 26% of traffic on Akamai’s CDN is HTTP/2. But unfortunately, as is...