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Serverless functions are an ideal alternative to VMs or containers for microservices, as they are easy to create, less risky than VMs, and faster than containers. With Akamai’s EdgeWorkers, serverless functions run directly on the Edge, where users enter the Internet. This co-locates serverless computing with the web content consumers need, which enables massive scale and unparalleled performance.  EdgeWorkers is...

When you’re racing to deliver new features and functionality to users, there’s no time to waste troubleshooting a problem. We’ve all been there, so we’ve worked hard to create the best support experiences for Akamai users.  Here’s an overview of the Akamai support resources available to you as well as solutions to a few common troubleshooting scenarios.  Know where to...

Join us at the 2020 Akamai Developer Tour: Everything at the Edge. The Akamai Developer World Tour is coming to a city near you this spring! Every year, the Akamai Developer team travels all over the world to bring you the latest updates on Akamai technology, hands-on experiences with our tools, and the opportunity to get to know you all...

In case you don’t already know, HTTPie is a great command-line tool for debugging websites and exploring APIs.  It supports similar features to command-line tools like cURL or Wget, but with a flexible syntax that makes it much easier to add headers, query-strings, or request payloads - and it supports JSON. Akamai provides an authentication extension for HTTPie that makes...

Many Akamai customers have adopted mature DevOps practices to improve agility and speed, and config creation (or handling) is one of the most commonly automated tasks on our platform. To help you increase your productivity even further, here are some tips for automating and testing Akamai configurations. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to: Test rapidly while you’re coding Automate...

Akamai works easily with a prerendering service like prerender.io. Since search engines can only see javascript tags when they crawl sites, a prerender service can improve your SEO by rendering your content in javascript for you.  This article covers the basics of a prerender service and gives you a rundown of how you can get started.  How Does prerender.io Work?...

Start your DevOps Journey with Caching As of November 2019 there were 3.5 billion purge API requests from more than 3,500 unique customers.  Are you one of them?  Akamai now offers users so many cool new DevOps features. But it can be hard to know where to start and what to introduce into your organization first.  In this article I’ll...

Postman is a staple of API development and API exploration used by more than 8 million developers worldwide. A couple of years ago, Jeff Costa published an excellent blog that explained how you could leverage Postman to test Akamai APIs. This gave Postman users an easy way to learn how to use and work with Akamai’s APIs. Recently, our Akamai...

Akamai Traffic Reports in the Akamai Control Center now provide a number of new features that enable more robust insights into traffic and offloading activities! Our new capabilities include the Traffic Report, which now provides the ability to see a new offload perspective that is based on filtering by cacheable content. Additionally, you can now filter by Group (typically representing...

Many dynamic API calls, such as payment transactions, are somewhat time-pressured and must complete within several seconds. But other API calls are even more critical and are what we call “ultradynamic.” These calls require extremely rapid refresh times (usually less than 100 milliseconds) to ensure that fast-changing data is updated quickly for an API client. For example, consider sports scores:...