Blog Listing

In 2018, 52.2% of all website traffic worldwide was generated through mobile phones, which is roughly double what it was in 2014. As these mobile traffic numbers continue to rise, so does the volume of new mobile apps being introduced, and the velocity of their releases. In this hyper-competitive mobile landscape, users today expect more sophisticated apps and richer experiences,...

We’re happy to announce that we’ve just completed the fourth and final phase of our UX upgrades in the Akamai Security Configuration application (see the four phases listed here). This latest version streamlines the process for developers and admins, reduces time to complete tasks, makes protection more complete, and sets a strong foundation for Akamai to add new capabilities for...

GraphQL is an open-source specification for data retrieval from server to client. It was originally developed internally by Facebook in 2012, and made publicly available in 2015. But what drove the need for yet another specification to fetch data from a server? It was the constantly growing adoption of mobile applications. Unlike desktop applications, mobile apps have to rely on...

Hopefully, you’ve already read the excellent "Introducing the Ability to Purge by Cache Tag" blog post by my Akamai colleague Sid Phadkar. If not, I highly recommend that you check it out. Building on Sid’s introductory post, I’d like to now take you on a deeper dive into the new purge by cache tag functionality in Akamai’s Fast Purge. But...

We’re proud to announce that the new purge by cache tag functionality in Akamai’s Fast Purge is now available to all Akamai content delivery product customers. To get here, we went through an exciting, year-long beta with more than 200 participants purging ~200,000,000 tags; during this time, we noted some fascinating (and surprising!) ways that customers leveraged tags in their...

Join us for this live webinar on Wednesday, March 27th at 10:00 AM PDT where we'll discuss the nuts and bolts of how real user monitoring (RUM) works and how Burton Snowboards is using RUM to elevate their performance every day.

As we relentlessly strive to improve the user experience for Akamai customers, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some specific updates coming to our Akamai cloud security products in the next few months. As we roll out these improvements—which will continue from now through June—banner messaging will appear in your Akamai interface to inform you of the latest...

The 2019 Great International Developer Summit (GIDS) is coming back to Bangalore at the Indian Institute of Science from April 22-26, 2019. For 12 years, this annual event has been a hub for software professionals to get insight on the industry’s latest tools, services, projects, platforms, languages and standards from recognized tech speakers and key companies. Akamai is excited to...

Akamai’s Prolexic Routed is a powerful DDoS defense that protects your data center infrastructure against large, complex attacks. One of the advantages of being protected by Prolexic Routed is that you can get deep insight into the traffic traversing Akamai’s DDoS scrubbing network. Many Prolexic customers—often large enterprises with highly complex network footprints—have told us that Akamai is the only...

We wanted to give you some timely information on the latest update to Akamai’s Web Application Protector. The update includes these changes (click to jump to any selection): Two new attack groups Renamed “Web DoS Attack” group Changes to the home screen Support for wildcard hostnames Coming soon: protection improvements for API traffic Here are further details on each item:...