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Announcing The Akamai Developer World Tour: Build. Deliver. Amaze.

August 21, 2018 by Ana Nguyen

The highly anticipated Akamai Developer World Tour is coming to a city near you, and we’re excited to share what we have in store for you.
Categories:
- DevOps,
- Events

Latest Blog Posts

How Scalability Planning Can Significantly Improve Your APIs

September 17, 2018

Offloading the authentication and authorization functions of an API to an API Gateway can provide substantial improvements in scalability.
Categories:
- API Gateway
Akamai Developer Webinar: Optimizing for Faster Mobile Apps

September 12, 2018 by Will Vuong

Get the details on the upcoming September 19th Akamai Developer webinar, presented by Akamai mobile experts, which will provide an overview of common performance challenges and the key considerations for combating those challenges.
Categories:
- Mobile,
- Webinars
How-To: Validating Image Manager with Piez

September 12, 2018 by Davey Shafik

Learn how to use Piez, the Google Chrome extension that gives you comprehensive reports on the status of images processed by Akamai Image Manager.
Categories:
- Image Manager,
- Content Delivery
How-To: Using MAP SDK with Third-Party Network Libraries

September 11, 2018 by Rahul Sharma

Learn how to use the Akamai Mobile Application Performance software development kit (MAP SDK) with the most commonly used, third-party network libraries like HttpUrlConnection, OkHttpClient, Retrofit, and Volley.
Categories:
- Mobile,
- Libraries
Introducing ESI Debugger API and a New Debugger UI

September 11, 2018 by Akhil Jayaprakash

We recently improved our Edge Side Include (ESI) debugger UI and released a new API so developers can run a script to check whether their ESI code is running successfully at the edge.
Categories:
- DevOps,
- Testing,
- Tools
Akamai’s Paul Calvano Interviewed on “The State of the Web”

September 5, 2018 by Javier Garza

Watch Google's Rick Viscomi and Akamai's Paul Calvano talk about how you can leverage the HTTP Archive and a few other resources to unleash key information about the state of the web.
Categories:
- HTTP Archive
How-To: Testing Third-Party Scripts Locally

September 4, 2018 by Carm Janneteau and Medhat Yakan

You can locally test the effect of blocking or deferring third-party scripts and take action based on your results.
Categories:
- Web Performance
Introducing Akamai Test Center

August 24, 2018 by Amit Mohanty

Akamai Test Center, a unique new testing tool that can help increase your confidence in the safety of configuration updates on your web properties, is now available
Categories:
- Testing
How-To: Getting Started with Swagger

July 25, 2018 by Jeff Costa

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.
Categories:
- API Gateway
How-To: Using MAP SDK with Third-Party Image Libraries

July 24, 2018 by Rahul Sharma

The Akamai Mobile Application 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.
Categories:
- Mobile