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We recently conducted an Akamai Developer webinar where we demonstrated the functionality of the new Akamai API Gateway. During that session, we polled participants with this question: “Are you using an API definition language, and if so, which one?” Of the respondents, 41% said they were NOT using a definition language while 58% said they were using Swagger 2.0.

The Akamai Mobile App Performance software development kit (MAP SDK) helps developers build the best possible mobile experience, even when connection speeds are slow or unavailable. MAP SDK supports the most commonly used, third-party image-loading libraries like Glide, Android Universal Image Loader, Picasso, and SDWebImage.

When building mobile apps with the Akamai Mobile Application Performance (MAP) SDK, occasionally you may run into an issue and want to reach out to our support team. To make it easier for everybody, it’s ideal if you can provide a copy of the debug log to the support team.

Today, we’re proud to announce that the newest release of Akamai Security Center is in general availability. Security Center’s overall goal is to deliver analytics from multiple security products in one space to help Akamai customers optimize their preparation and understanding of complex multi-vector attacks.

Loading JavaScript is one of the most critical bottlenecks to web performance, especially on mobile devices with a slower CPU. The cost of loading JavaScript not only includes the network time to download the bytes from a content server, but also includes the time to decompress, parse, compile, and execute the JavaScript.

Short videos and high-resolution imagery can greatly enhance the user experience on your website, but they can also impact performance and complicate the management of your assets across web and mobile devices. We created Akamai Image Manager to meet this challenge, allowing developers and admins to seamlessly manage the delivery and optimization of website images.

TIP: If you encounter any unfamiliar terms related to Akamai network and property management in this blog post, check the Glossary section at the end.

A key internet trend today is the rise of short videos that enhance the end-user experience. Examples of this trend include everything from 20-second product videos on retailer websites to two-minute news clips on media websites.

We had a blast meeting and talking DevOps and web performance with everybody at the Velocity + Fluent conference in San Jose earlier this month.

The Akamai Certificate Provisioning System (CPS) provides full life cycle management of SSL certificates on the Akamai platform.