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DevOps is everywhere—but how do you apply it to your workflow? In this blog post, we’ll show you how to simulate an entire continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline with Akamai. Let’s walk through the complete Akamai pipeline workflow from scratch, so you can see how the blocks work together, and apply a similar approach to your own code....

The API Gateway dashboard has undergone a big renovation!  New Dashboard | When you log in to Akamai Control Center and navigate to API Definitions > API Gateway Dashboard, you’ll see a new link at the top of the page:  This link will take you to the new dashboard where you can begin setting up the reports you would like...

As online security professionals, we are always striving to improve website security. Security threats continue to evolve, requiring an online protection strategy that is robust and flexible. In this blog post, we’ll share an overview of a multi-layered web security approach with Akamai that addresses ever-changing online security challenges. Edge DNS | Before we review the security protections available from...

This blog post covers the Akamai Developer Webinar, “Akamai-as-code With The Washington Post" in which Ian Baker, Technical Director at the Washington Post and Yair Greenbaum, Engagement Manager at Akamai, explain how Arc Publishing (a Washington Post company) created an effective DevOps practice to manage their infrastructure as code.  Arc Publishing, a Washington Post company, offers an intuitive, comprehensive suite...

Learn how Akamai's serverless computing solution can help you use geolocation to improve user experience.

Many online businesses that Akamai supports are focused on Internet security best practices — this is especially true for customers in the financial services industry, which is a frequent target of cyberattacks and fraud. In an effort to provide the safest online experience, sometimes these customers overlook opportunities to improve performance and availability. By deploying basic caching strategies, you can...

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...

Geo fencing allows you to ensure that media assets can only be accessed in a given country or region. In this blog, I'll walk through how you can set up a simple web app that runs on Heroku. With this app, you can serve a basic page with a specific video asset hosted on NetStorage for any requests starting with...

Protecting websites against SQL injections and other security attacks has never been easier. In this blog post, I'll demonstrate a workflow that allows to protect against an SQL injection attack by configuring a firewall at the Edge. See the full demo at the end of this post.  For the origin, I used a PHP web server called DVWA (available in...

The Akamai command-line interface (CLI) is a powerful and extensible toolkit that allows you to manage and configure Akamai's platform and various products directly from the command line. For those of you doing DevOps, the CLI simplifies the integration of Akamai into your existing CI/CD automation. It delivers a unified developer experience for anyone who needs to work with or...