Now Available: EdgeKV Distributed Key-Value Store

We’re excited to announce the availability of EdgeKV, a distributed key-value store database that enables EdgeWorkers to leverage data stored at the edge when deploying custom code across our serverless computing platform. This solution is fully distributed, meaning it runs in 1,400+ networks and in 135 countries. Continue reading Now Available: EdgeKV Distributed Key-Value Store

How Enigmo Moved Logic from Client to Origin to Edge

Enigmo owns BUYMA, a Japanese fashion C2C marketplace that helps people buy and sell high-quality goods from overseas on www.buyma.com. BUYMA has 8.21 million members and deals with 5.62 million items across 140,000 fashion brands. Its website uses EdgeWorkers to manipulate cookies, a typical use case at the edge. Continue reading How Enigmo Moved Logic from Client to Origin to Edge

A/B Testing, Now with EdgeKV

Now that we’ve written the framework of our code, let’s layer in EdgeKV (EKV), our distributed key-value store database. Before getting started, we recommend downloading and installing the EdgeKV command-line interface (CLI) to use for these examples. You may also want to review the documentation of the EKV data model to better understand it. The uppermost element of our data model is the namespace, which contains groups; groups contain individual name-value pairs called items. Continue reading A/B Testing, Now with EdgeKV

Building an A/B Test with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV

When paired with our new EdgeKV distributed key-value database, the Akamai EdgeWorkers serverless platform gives you the ability to do powerful things at the CDN level. One common application using these two products is an A/B test: showing users one of two variants of the same webpage to determine which page performs better. Let’s build that together. Continue reading Building an A/B Test with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV

Innovative Ways Customers Compute on the Edge

Moving everything closer to the edge is the key to delivering better, faster experiences to people through billions of devices around the world. The idea of edge computing isn’t new — Akamai customers have been caching content at the edge for decades, taking advantage of lower latency and heightened security. But now many companies are taking that idea further, using Akamai EdgeWorkers to deploy custom code at the edge. Continue reading Innovative Ways Customers Compute on the Edge

Serverless Storage at the Edge (EdgeKV Beta)

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)

What’s the Value of a Key-Value Store?

A database back end for your application is vital, and odds are that your database is a relational database or a "not only SQL" (NoSQL) database. Relational databases have dominated the software industry for decades, even as other technologies … Continue reading What’s the Value of a Key-Value Store?