Category Archives: edgecomputing

You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve

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Locality matters for most things in life: weather, health care, shopping, product reviews, dinner reservations, social networking, data privacy, news, sports … the list goes on and on in our ever more connected lives. From direct user interaction on your flagship website or app to IoT device data collection and transformation, where your target audience is and where they are going is essential to providing the experience they need, want, and deserve. This experience needs to honor the privacy of the user, ensure the integrity and safe handling of personal data, and provide an accurate localized view of your key content — all while being highly performant, available, and secure. Continue reading You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve→

Akamai: Supporting Development at the Edge

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The pressures on application and web development teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences have never been greater than they are at this time. With consumer expectations growing, the ability of developers to deliver fresh, leading-edge digital experiences confidently and at high velocity is at a premium. Continue reading Akamai: Supporting Development at the Edge→

Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns

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Before we dive straight into the magical unicorn from heaven that is serverless computing embedded within the CDN edge (a direct customer quote that I want on a team T-shirt soon), let’s first level-set on some basic concepts of computing. In the conte… Continue reading Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns→

Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns

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Before we dive straight into the magical unicorn from heaven that is serverless computing embedded within the CDN edge (a direct customer quote that I want on a team T-shirt soon), let’s first level-set on some basic concepts of computing. In the context of web experiences, IoT device messaging, and really anything else that travels across the public internet, compute can happen in three venues: Continue reading Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns→

20 Years of Edge Computing

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How long will you wait for something? That depends on what you’re waiting for, of course. But in your daily interactions, think about how many "things" you interact with where you expect the response to be instantaneous – tapping on mobile apps, logging in and transacting with a retailer or a bank, selecting and viewing content on a streaming media device, interacting with a connected device like a light, doorbell, or even a car, or checking in for a train or flight. These are all services that require real-time processing of information, at massive scale, and are examples of where edge computing can make the difference between a great experience and a really frustrating one by bringing processing closer to devices and data. Continue reading 20 Years of Edge Computing→

Overcoming OpenStack Obstacles for vCDN at the Edge

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Akamai and Wind River have collaborated to provide a validated, joint solution for virtual CDN services delivered with the reliability, scalability, and edge-optimized footprint that are required for cost-effective deployments in telecom networks….
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Overcoming OpenStack Obstacles for vCDN at the Edge

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Akamai and Wind River have collaborated to provide a validated, joint solution for virtual CDN services delivered with the reliability, scalability, and edge-optimized footprint that are required for cost-effective deployments in telecom networks…. Continue reading Overcoming OpenStack Obstacles for vCDN at the Edge→