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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:...

Akamai is excited to be a Gold sponsor of AWS re:Invent 2019, the annual learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services from December 2-6 in Las Vegas.

One of the common challenges in the DevOps world is how to incorporate a source code management (SCM) repository—such as Git or others—into a DevOps workflow. Typically, it looks like this: But specifically how does this look (and work) if you’re an Akamai customer? In this blog post, we’ll discuss SCM repositories and how Akamai products and tools can work...

Akamai announces two major releases per year (in March and October) in order to help you more easily keep up with new functionality and innovations. In this blog post, we’ll provide you with selected highlights of Akamai's October 2019 Release that we think are of particular interest for developers, admins, and architects. Akamai API Gateway JSON Web Key Set (JWKS)...

When your web page is shared on social networks, that can be a valuable opportunity for your organization, and you’ll definitely want the best and most optimal visual elements of your page to come through for maximum impact. With a combination of Akamai Image Manager and the Open Graph og:image meta tag, you can do exactly that. Introduction | Open...

Akamai Script Management, which helps manage and mitigate the impact of third-party scripts on your website, now offers annotations through Akamai mPulse. This new capability is designed to give you a way to instantly flag RUM data presented in mPulse or to mark an important point in time when a Script Management policy is activated. A bit of background Today,...

As a developer or admin, there are certain situations when you need to generate a unique identifier for an object. Of course, you could just create a random string to do this, but the better and more popular way is to assign a universally unique identifier (UUID) to the object. (Note that UUIDs are also sometimes known as GUIDs or...

I wanted to share a video of a talk I gave at a recent LinkedIn Performance Engineering Meetup. In this talk—which builds on Akamai CEO Tom Leighton's keynote at a recent conference—I discuss the "capacity imbalance" on the Internet and some of the things you can do to ensure your sites and apps will be always fast and secure even...

In addition to optimizing images and video, Akamai Image Manager now optimizes a much-requested format: animated GIFs. This new feature is available for immediate use by Image Manager customers. Exhibit A: This is why GIFs are popular. Why is this important? It’s no secret that animated GIFs are immensely popular on the web, and getting more popular all the time....