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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...

Akamai Adaptive Acceleration, the performance-optimization feature set included with Ion, now has a new capability: Automatic Font Preload. This new capability, like all of the Adaptive Acceleration capabilities, is a low-touch, automated approach that’s designed to give you instant website optimization and acceleration. What is font preload? (And what happens behind the scenes?) Preloading is a mechanism by which a...

Today is a big day for the Akamai Sandbox team and even bigger, we think, for Akamai customers. Our group of seven dedicated Akamai team members spent the last year speaking with our DevOps-savvy customers and listening to different pain points they have. After five months in beta, we’re happy to announce that we’re opening up Akamai Sandbox with general...

This blog post is a follow-up to our recent post, “Announcing Upgraded and More Secure Prolexic Attack Reports,” and here we’ll take a deeper dive into one aspect of that announcement. Namely, we’ll explain in greater detail the two new categories of advanced forensics data in Prolexic attack reports: packet capture (PCAP) and top Source IPs (SIPs). Background After a...

No matter what your business is, staying on top of security events and trends is always a priority for developers, admins, and architects. In order to give you a new level of continuous insight into this area, we’re enhancing four of Akamai’s flagship security products: Kona Site Defender, Web Application Protector, Bot Manager, and Client Reputation. By July 2019, these...