Category Archives: Web Performance

XITE Music Video Platform Amplifies Entertainment with Akamai’s Help

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With so many people around the globe seeking socially distanced fun and solace, at-home entertainment has never been more important. XITE aims to offer the best music video experience in the world. Akamai is delighted that this exciting, interactive video platform chose to work with us to provide high-quality, secure online video, which enables XITE to deliver on the experience its fans have come to love. Continue reading XITE Music Video Platform Amplifies Entertainment with Akamai’s Help→

XITE Music Video Platform Amplifies Entertainment with Akamai’s Help

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With so many people around the globe seeking socially distanced fun and solace, at-home entertainment has never been more important. XITE aims to offer the best music video experience in the world. Akamai is delighted that this exciting, interactive vi… Continue reading XITE Music Video Platform Amplifies Entertainment with Akamai’s Help→

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)→

Edge Redirector Cloudlet Gets Faster

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Cloudlets Policy Manager often takes a long time to load, which is a by-product of its original design where every policy activation is an individual file. These files must be moved around the network, and as you might imagine, transferring thousands of files in a multi-tenant network can take a very long time. Add a synchronous API to this problem, and we quickly get into a situation where the Policy Manager UI can freeze until a back-end transfer operation times out. Continue reading Edge Redirector Cloudlet Gets Faster→

Edge Redirector Cloudlet Gets Faster

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Cloudlets Policy Manager often takes a long time to load, which is a by-product of its original design where every policy activation is an individual file. These files must be moved around the network, and as you might imagine, transferring thousands o… Continue reading Edge Redirector Cloudlet Gets Faster→

Our ESG Commitment: Investing in a Better World

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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are quickly emerging as a key concern for investors. To use a musical analogy, the bow is just resting on the first string, with more notes sure to follow. At Akamai, our ESG instrument is well tuned a… Continue reading Our ESG Commitment: Investing in a Better World→

Our ESG Commitment: Investing in a Better World

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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are quickly emerging as a key concern for investors. To use a musical analogy, the bow is just resting on the first string, with more notes sure to follow. At Akamai, our ESG instrument is well tuned and ready for the symphony to come, as evidenced by our 2020 Sustainability Report released this week. Continue reading Our ESG Commitment: Investing in a Better World→

Working Together with Our Customers to Build a Sustainable Future

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By now, we hope you’ve read Monday’s and Tuesday’s blog posts announcing the release of our annual sustainability report, our sustainability program, and the technical innovation behind it. Continue reading Working Together with Our Customers to Build a Sustainable Future→