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Many Akamai customers have adopted mature DevOps practices to improve agility and speed, and config creation (or handling) is one of the most commonly automated tasks on our platform. To help you increase your productivity even further, here are some tips for automating and testing Akamai configurations. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to: Test rapidly while you’re coding Automate...

Akamai works easily with a prerendering service like prerender.io. Since search engines can only see javascript tags when they crawl sites, a prerender service can improve your SEO by rendering your content in javascript for you.  This article covers the basics of a prerender service and gives you a rundown of how you can get started.  How Does prerender.io Work?...

Start your DevOps Journey with Caching As of November 2019 there were 3.5 billion purge API requests from more than 3,500 unique customers.  Are you one of them?  Akamai now offers users so many cool new DevOps features. But it can be hard to know where to start and what to introduce into your organization first.  In this article I’ll...

Postman is a staple of API development and API exploration used by more than 8 million developers worldwide. A couple of years ago, Jeff Costa published an excellent blog that explained how you could leverage Postman to test Akamai APIs. This gave Postman users an easy way to learn how to use and work with Akamai’s APIs. Recently, our Akamai...

Akamai Traffic Reports in the Akamai Control Center now provide a number of new features that enable more robust insights into traffic and offloading activities! Our new capabilities include the Traffic Report, which now provides the ability to see a new offload perspective that is based on filtering by cacheable content. Additionally, you can now filter by Group (typically representing...

Many dynamic API calls, such as payment transactions, are somewhat time-pressured and must complete within several seconds. But other API calls are even more critical and are what we call “ultradynamic.” These calls require extremely rapid refresh times (usually less than 100 milliseconds) to ensure that fast-changing data is updated quickly for an API client. For example, consider sports scores:...

Akamai is excited to be a Gold sponsor of AWS re:Invent 2019, the annual learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services from December 2-6 in Las Vegas.

One of the common challenges in the DevOps world is how to incorporate a source code management (SCM) repository—such as Git or others—into a DevOps workflow. Typically, it looks like this: But specifically how does this look (and work) if you’re an Akamai customer? In this blog post, we’ll discuss SCM repositories and how Akamai products and tools can work...

Akamai announces two major releases per year (in March and October) in order to help you more easily keep up with new functionality and innovations. In this blog post, we’ll provide you with selected highlights of Akamai's October 2019 Release that we think are of particular interest for developers, admins, and architects. Akamai API Gateway JSON Web Key Set (JWKS)...

When your web page is shared on social networks, that can be a valuable opportunity for your organization, and you’ll definitely want the best and most optimal visual elements of your page to come through for maximum impact. With a combination of Akamai Image Manager and the Open Graph og:image meta tag, you can do exactly that. Introduction | Open...