Blog Listing

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...

Akamai mPulse combined with an Akamai content delivery network (CDN) gives you a powerful way to monitor the performance of your CDN and your origin. The secret to this new capability is server timing. Here’s how it all works: When mPulse is injected via Property Manager, Akamai adds extra server-timing response headers. These headers follow the Server Timing API and...

As part of our improved user experience program, we are pleased to release v2 of the Network List API. Based on your feedback, the new v2 API provides improved performance and a developer experience that’s consistent with our other security APIs. New features The v2 release also offers new features, including the ability to unsubscribe from Network List update emails...

Akamai’s product catalog is constantly evolving—and as a result, some of our older versions need to be phased out over time. We wanted to give you advance notice that as of November 16, 2018, the PowerShell EdgeGrid client will no longer be supported by Akamai, and will no longer see future development. Additionally, after January 7, 2019, any calls to...

Companies of all sizes and in every industry use APIs for a staggering range of activities. Just a few examples: APIs make it easy to include weather forecasts in apps, recommend driving routes where you are least likely to have an accident, and allow banks to comply with open banking regulations. But there are difficulties: similar to general web traffic,...

AWS re:Invent is returning to Las Vegas from November 26-29, 2018, and Akamai is excited to be a sponsor of this year’s event. We look forward to meeting developers, admins, and technical leaders like you to talk DevOps, performance, security, and more. If you’re not already registered, get your pass here. What’ll you find once you arrive? Well, let’s start...

GraphQL, the Facebook-incubated data query language for APIs, is a fast-growing alternative to REST. The goal of GraphQL is to reduce payload size and give an API client the ability to query for only for the data it needs. GraphQL uses a flexible syntax based on type definitions, describe the exact fields needed. This avoids the problems common to RESTful...

Black Friday is traditionally when many businesses have their accounting sheets go from red to black, hence the black of Black Friday. But for online businesses, it’s all about Cyber Monday. Last year, Cyber Monday became the largest online shopping day in U.S. history, with a record 6.59 billion U.S. dollars in online spending. What these numbers mean is that...