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Many websites provide a search function to help users find nearby locations such as retail stores. Typically, a store locator service is implemented on-premise or at the cloud origin, searching a database to find physical locations near the user. You can improve the performance of this search by executing it in a serverless function at the Edge with EdgeWorkers. Finding...

This blog post will go over how you can migrate from advanced metadata to custom behaviors so you can directly manage and edit your configurations without going through Akamai professional services. Akamai Edge servers are smart reverse proxies located at the edge of the Internet that you can leverage to deliver fast and high-quality content to your end-users. Two of...

DataStream provides real-time access to application activity data, including aggregated metrics on complete request-response cycles as well as origin response times. It helps simplify web application monitoring, and includes applications deployed to cloud hosting or that leverage third-party services.  DataStream works in two modes: A push model that pushes logs to Splunk, Datadog, S3, SumoLogic, or custom endpoints to the...

This blog is part of a series that walks through user authentication using Akamai Identity Cloud in various languages.  In this blog, we will add user authentication to a simple ASP.NET web application with Akamai Identity Cloud. The primary use case is user registration and log in or out from a simple ASP.NET application. In this example, we will use...

A security information and event management solution (SIEM) is an important part of any DevSecOps strategy. Analyzing security events and creating visualizations and reports allows you to fine-tune the security for your infrastructure and bolster the security of your applications, APIs, data and endpoints. SIEM tools are often used to collect logs for origin servers, internal firewalls, or other sources...

Delivering rich online experiences is a requirement for businesses today. But with users accessing your images and videos on a variety of different devices and browsers, accounting for all of the possible display variations is challenging. Automatic resizing is one of the most useful capabilities of the Akamai Image and Video Manager. Read on to learn how to properly resize...

In this blog, we will add user authentication to a simple PHP web application with Akamai Identity Cloud. The primary use case is user registration and log in or out from a simple PHP application. In this example, we will use the OpenID Connect (OIDC) Authorization Code flow built into Akamai Identity Cloud as illustrated below. You can complete the...

With the Akamai Terraform Provider, you are able to manage your Akamai-as-code. The Akamai Terraform Provider offers you the ability to execute key use-cases to manage your Akamai solutions. The Akamai Terraform Provider is officially approved by HashiCorp, who maintains Terraform.  You can find the full documentation including code examples and Getting Started tutorials on the Terraform Documentation website: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/akamai/index.html...

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...