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I have been asked numerous times if the mPulse Time to Interactive (TTI) and Time to Visually Ready (TTVR) timers are the same as those from Lighthouse, WebPageTest, and/or SpeedCurve. The short answer is no — there are some significant differences to keep in mind. In this article, I will contrast how mPulse captures and calculates these metrics with the...

This short blog will guide you through the process required to write, deploy, and test EdgeWorkers code in the Akamai cloud platform using the Akamai Control Center. The EdgeWorkers service makes it possible for you to run serverless code closer to your end users and improve your application performance — all while accelerating deployment times by applying solutions on a...

This short blog will guide you through the process of setting up Akamai EdgeWorkers. The EdgeWorkers service makes it possible for you to run serverless code closer to your end users and improve your application performance — all while accelerating deployment times by applying solutions on a massive scale. Setting up EdgeWorkers takes 5–10 minutes and consists of a few...

In this article, we’ll discuss how Jsonnet can be used to improve the Akamai configuration developer experience by providing a superior templating experience. We’ll also showcase the new Akamai Jsonnet CLI, a simple utility to quickly convert an existing Akamai configuration to Jsonnet. Before we dive into managing Akamai configuration as code, let’s review configuration deployment and configuration representation. At...

We’re proud to announce the beta release of the Property Manager extension for the two most popular IDEs: Visual Studio Code and Eclipse.  When you deploy web assets to the Akamai network, you create rules that tell our edge servers how to process requests for your content. Akamai is always seeking ways to make managing complex configurations seamless and quick....

What’s the secret to building amazing apps at scale? Run your custom logic closer to end-users for the highest performance and the lowest latency. Now available, EdgeWorkers empowers development at the edge, which makes it possible to deploy JavaScript functions on servers spread across thousands of data centers around the world. You can manage Web traffic, customize CDN functionality, or...

In this blog, we’ll learn how to run Akamai Sandbox within a Docker container to test changes before deployment. To streamline the process of setting up your developer environment, we’ll take a look at the Akamai Docker image first. The Akamai Docker image is loaded with tools including the Akamai CLI, CLI packages, and 3rd-party tools like HTTPie, cURL, and...

It’s probably no surprise that many Akamai customers from just about every industry vertical are continually re-tooling to dynamically interact and integrate with our platform. Although the use cases, benefits, and requirements vary drastically by industry vertical or even customer, there is one striking similarity: You all want to move information between your applications and Akamai - and you want...

If you’re familiar with creating an Akamai Property Manager configuration, you might be used to the manual process through the Akamai Control Center.  You usually have to navigate to create the initial product property, add any additional rules, configure the hostname and SSL certificate, activate it on the Akamai network, and integrate with the appropriate Akamai security configuration. With CLI...

This blog is part of a series on the various methods available to manage DNS as code. Previously we covered my personal favorite method - Managing Edge DNS as code with GitHub actions. In this blog, I’ll walk you through managing DNS using the DNS API. Akamai Edge DNS is a cloud-based solution that can be implemented as a primary...