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An API is only useful if gets in front of its intended audience, and that includes both the initial launch of the API and—perhaps more importantly—its many subsequent improvement iterations. Deployment velocity becomes critical to the success of your API as you iterate; simply put, you’ve got to get the improved version in front of the audience as quickly as...

Mobile phones and apps have become a key part of modern life around the world, and as a result, the number of apps continues to skyrocket (there are at least 2.1 million Android apps available today). As an Android developer, it’s more important than ever to create apps that delight users, because the competition among apps is fierce. And do...

The genesis of Akamai Sandbox goes back two years, when we discovered that many Akamai customers were making changes to their configs more frequently than we expected. When we started talking to these customers, we discovered three main patterns: Multiple teams: An Akamai config is usually managed by multiple teams, where each team owns a part of the logic within...

This is a guest post by Andy Davies, an exceedingly affable independent web performance consultant. -Editor In early 2015, HTTP/2 (a.k.a. h2) was finally approved as a standard, and it’s now widely supported by modern browsers, servers, load-balancers, and CDNs. Usage has been growing steadily since, and today 26% of traffic on Akamai’s CDN is HTTP/2. But unfortunately, as is...

As Akamai’s API catalog evolves, some of our older APIs need to be decommissioned over time. All active users of Akamai Billing Center API v1 should note that as of June 20, 2019, we will no longer support the v1 version of the Billing Center API. To minimize disruptions to your integration with Akamai’s platform, we recommend upgrading to Akamai ...

Akamai CloudTest gives you optimized testing capabilities for web and mobile apps, APIs, databases, and web services. Jenkins is one of the industry’s most popular open-source automation servers. In certain scenarios, you can combine the two of them for a superior automated testing solution. First, let’s outline one of these scenarios. Let’s say you have a CloudTest Test Composition* that...

At the recent AWS re:Invent 2018 conference in Las Vegas, Akamai was proud to showcase our latest announcements from the Akamai 2018 October Release along with other product news and info. Our team also had a great time discussing a wide range of topics with technical leaders like you. Akamai Developer Evangelist Javier Garza presented his talk “Secrets to Building...

If you missed last month's epic droidCon in San Francisco, then you likely missed the greatest 28 minutes in the history of HTTP/2 (note: the 28 minutes actually includes the history of HTTP/2). Akamai Developer Evangelist Aman Alam delivered his talk, "How HTTP/2 Works, and How Android Developers Can Leverage It", and it was a hit with the rapt audience....

The Akamai 2018 October Release includes a major change to Akamai mPulse: a new methodology for calculating predicted conversion rates.

Akamai’s API catalog is constantly evolving—and as a result, some of our older APIs need to be phased out over time. If you’re an active user of one or more of these affected APIs, please note that as of March 1st, 2019, we will no longer support these earlier versions of the CCU APIs: Content Control Utility (CCU) SOAP API...