Blog Listing: Purging

If you manage a site using a content management system (CMS), you probably have a workflow that involves several teams. There's a team to publish content, a team to purge cached content from your content delivery network (CDN), along with many other teams. In this blog post, I'll go over how you can optimize operations by automating purging via the...

Start your DevOps Journey with Caching As of November 2019 there were 3.5 billion purge API requests from more than 3,500 unique customers.  Are you one of them?  Akamai now offers users so many cool new DevOps features. But it can be hard to know where to start and what to introduce into your organization first.  In this article I’ll...

Hopefully, you’ve already read the excellent "Introducing the Ability to Purge by Cache Tag" blog post by my Akamai colleague Sid Phadkar. If not, I highly recommend that you check it out. Building on Sid’s introductory post, I’d like to now take you on a deeper dive into the new purge by cache tag functionality in Akamai’s Fast Purge. But...

We’re proud to announce that the new purge by cache tag functionality in Akamai’s Fast Purge is now available to all Akamai content delivery product customers. To get here, we went through an exciting, year-long beta with more than 200 participants purging ~200,000,000 tags; during this time, we noted some fascinating (and surprising!) ways that customers leveraged tags in their...