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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....

Akamai recently announced GraphQL caching capability in Akamai API Gateway. This post illuminates some additional control you can gain over the way your cache key is computed. Akamai uses cache keys when caching an object on an Edge server. A cache key is a unique location in memory or disk where an object may be referenced. This object is returned...

Over the next six months, Akamai’s Web Application Protector (WAP) — which is designed to help you easily safeguard your web assets from DDoS and web application attacks — will get a range of new enhancements, and I wanted to give you a quick overview of what you’ll find: User interface improvements: The new and improved interface makes Web Application...

Today, many websites use hero images to engage users. Typically, a hero image is a large, prominently placed banner, and is usually the first element a visitor sees. The idea is to pique users’ interest and draw them in. But hero images, if not properly designed, can hinder site performance, causing a slow experience. Therefore, it’s critical to measure their...

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...