Blog Listing

Akamai’s EdgeWorld 2019 conference was four jam-packed days of fantastic ideas, demonstrations, and discussions. I wanted to share with you a talk I provided at the conference, which shows an extendable framework you can implement in less than 60 minutes. This framework allows you to completely automate the management of Akamai properties using open source tools. You can watch the...

Note: If you’re already eager to join the beta program, simply fill out this form. In 2018, we introduced Akamai’s Web Security Analytics tool (part of Akamai Security Center), which provides access to 31 days of security event data with flexible filtering, request samples, and the ability to export to CSV/JSON formats for offline analysis. One piece of feedback we’ve...

GraphQL offers developers many advantages over a traditional RESTful API, which is a key part of its growing popularity. Among those advantages is the ability to make a targeted query against multiple resources with a single request, which can dramatically increase API performance by reducing the payload size sent to the API client. One deterrent to more widespread adoption of...

Akamai Adaptive Acceleration, the performance-optimization feature set included with Ion, now has a new capability: Automatic Font Preload. This new capability, like all of the Adaptive Acceleration capabilities, is a low-touch, automated approach that’s designed to give you instant website optimization and acceleration. What is font preload? (And what happens behind the scenes?) Preloading is a mechanism by which a...

Today is a big day for the Akamai Sandbox team and even bigger, we think, for Akamai customers. Our group of seven dedicated Akamai team members spent the last year speaking with our DevOps-savvy customers and listening to different pain points they have. After five months in beta, we’re happy to announce that we’re opening up Akamai Sandbox with general...

This blog post is a follow-up to our recent post, “Announcing Upgraded and More Secure Prolexic Attack Reports,” and here we’ll take a deeper dive into one aspect of that announcement. Namely, we’ll explain in greater detail the two new categories of advanced forensics data in Prolexic attack reports: packet capture (PCAP) and top Source IPs (SIPs). Background After a...

No matter what your business is, staying on top of security events and trends is always a priority for developers, admins, and architects. In order to give you a new level of continuous insight into this area, we’re enhancing four of Akamai’s flagship security products: Kona Site Defender, Web Application Protector, Bot Manager, and Client Reputation. By July 2019, these...

If you’d prefer not to write to Akamai's APIs to control Akamai API Gateway, you now have another option: our command-line interface (aka Akamai CLI). Specifically, the new Akamai API Gateway CLI package allows you to control 12 common API Gateway functions using a non-GUI interface — and without writing a line of code. This helps you script or automate...

Akamai Adaptive Acceleration, the performance-optimization feature set included with Ion, uses real user monitoring (RUM) data—with Akamai mPulse as the data beacon source—to identify and preemptively push and preconnect elements in order to optimize website performance. Adaptive Acceleration Reset is a new tool to ensure that you have all of the latest optimizations available for your site. Adaptive Acceleration Reset...

When you’re a developer, the more similar your test environment is to the real production environment, the better. However, with the complexities around multiple environments, third-party dependencies, and other challenges, it’s not easy to fully achieve this ideal. But every step toward that ideal improves software quality and reduces cycle times. Starting now, you can take another step in that...