Blog Listing

In this blog, we’ll learn how to run Akamai Sandbox within a Docker container to test changes before deployment. To streamline the process of setting up your developer environment, we’ll take a look at the Akamai Docker image first. The Akamai Docker image is loaded with tools including the Akamai CLI, CLI packages, and 3rd-party tools like HTTPie, cURL, and...

It’s probably no surprise that many Akamai customers from just about every industry vertical are continually re-tooling to dynamically interact and integrate with our platform. Although the use cases, benefits, and requirements vary drastically by industry vertical or even customer, there is one striking similarity: You all want to move information between your applications and Akamai - and you want...

If you’re familiar with creating an Akamai Property Manager configuration, you might be used to the manual process through the Akamai Control Center.  You usually have to navigate to create the initial product property, add any additional rules, configure the hostname and SSL certificate, activate it on the Akamai network, and integrate with the appropriate Akamai security configuration. With CLI...

This blog is part of a series on the various methods available to manage DNS as code. Previously we covered my personal favorite method - Managing Edge DNS as code with GitHub actions. In this blog, I’ll walk you through managing DNS using the DNS API. Akamai Edge DNS is a cloud-based solution that can be implemented as a primary...

Do you often worry about third-party content on your website and wonder about its impact on page performance?  Third-party tools are ubiquitous and necessary in the modern web world. They aid many essential functions such as rendering ads, collecting analytics, connecting to social media, rendering A/B experiences, and so on - but third-party scripts are often also responsible for slowing...

I’m Roy Martinez, an Enterprise Architect in Akamai’s Global Consulting Services. My team makes up some of Akamai’s technical experts, providing our customers with the innovative designs and guidance they need to further their online business.  In this blog, I’d like to share some code I created to help some of my customers automate auditing settings across hundreds of configurations...

In this blog, I'll review what cumulative layout shift is and why it matters.  What is CLS and why does it occur? | Cumulative layout shift (CLS) is a measure of how much content shifts on a page and is one of Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics, so there has been a lot of attention on it lately. It will...

This blog is part of a series on the various methods available to manage DNS as code. In this blog, I’ll walk you through managing DNS using the GitHub Actions Akamai Edge DNS is a cloud-based solution that can be implemented as a primary or secondary DNS service that leverages a globally distributed network of servers to ensure the availability,...

This blog post covers how to leverage “Akamai-as-code” with AWS using the excellent work done by Intuit Inc. in its innovative CI/CD pipeline. Every day we see more and more customers that migrate to cloud infrastructure. This also means that companies will depend on services to deploy code and manage infrastructure as code. Cloud providers like AWS offer services to...

Managing security solutions as code is an important part of any DevSecOps strategy. In this blog, I will guide you on your path when it comes to everything you need to know to manage your Akamai Security solutions with the Akamai Developer toolbox.  This blog is designed for anyone who is interested in managing Akamai Security solutions through the use...