Category Archives: Akamai Edge

Why Developers Are Writing Apps on Our Edge Platform

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A lot of companies talk about edge computing today, but at Akamai, we’ve been doing it for more than 20 years. We were the first company to offer edge computing services, beginning in 1999 with advanced metadata, an XML-based language used to enable a variety of capabilities on our edge platform — things like access revocation, ad insertion, throttling and visitor prioritization. Continue reading Why Developers Are Writing Apps on Our Edge Platform→

Why Developers Are Writing Apps on Our Edge Platform

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A lot of companies talk about edge computing today, but at Akamai, we’ve been doing it for more than 20 years. We were the first company to offer edge computing services, beginning in 1999 with advanced metadata, an XML-based language used to enable a … Continue reading Why Developers Are Writing Apps on Our Edge Platform→

The Edge is Becoming More Critical in a World of 5G and IoT

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The edge is becoming more critical in a world of 5G and IoT. I’ve seen the evolution from 1x to 3G to 4G and now 5G over the many years I’ve worked in the mobile space, and 5G and IoT will drive the biggest changes we have seen on the edge in 10 or 20 years. Continue reading The Edge is Becoming More Critical in a World of 5G and IoT→

The Edge is Becoming More Critical in a World of 5G and IoT

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The edge is becoming more critical in a world of 5G and IoT. I’ve seen the evolution from 1x to 3G to 4G and now 5G over the many years I’ve worked in the mobile space, and 5G and IoT will drive the biggest changes we have seen on the edge in 10 or 20 … Continue reading The Edge is Becoming More Critical in a World of 5G and IoT→

Serverless Storage at the Edge (EdgeKV Beta)

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We are pleased to announce the launch of EdgeKV, our distributed key-value store, into beta! EdgeKV is enabling technology for EdgeWorkers, our serverless computing platform that enables developers to create services using JavaScript and deploy them across our platform. When writing JavaScript, data persistence is often necessary to save data from a user interaction, or to retrieve contextual data to evaluate inside a function. Continue reading Serverless Storage at the Edge (EdgeKV Beta)→

Corporate Office and Kitchen Table: Securing the Future of Work, Part 2

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The workforce is remote, the data center is the cloud, the corporate network is the internet, and the security stack is at the edge.
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Corporate Office and Kitchen Table: Securing the Future of Work, Part 1

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The future of work is multi-modal, the future corporate office is a private coffee shop with great W-iFi, and the future of enterprise security is going to have to adapt rapidly.
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The World Has Moved Online. Has Your Business Adapted?

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What would happen if everything we do in the world were to suddenly go online? We got the answer to that question early this year, when the global coronavirus pandemic forced almost everyone and everything to move online: commerce, meetings with colle… Continue reading The World Has Moved Online. Has Your Business Adapted?→