Blog Listing: Akamai 2018 October Release

I’m happy to announce the launch of three exciting tech preview features for Akamai’s Ion Mobile Application Performance SDK (MAP SDK). If you’re asking yourself, “What’s MAP SDK?” please click this link to learn more about how MAP SDK helps improve the user experience for your native/hybrid app. If you want to connect with our MAP SDK experts then email...

Enterprise Threat Protector (ETP) Advanced Threat is a new bundle offering of ETP.  In addition to the existing DNS protection layer, ETP Advanced Threat offers additional capabilities of URL and payload inspection using inline malware detection and analysis engines. There are two new key capabilities that are being introduced as part of ETP Advanced Threat. ETP Proxy - Analyzes suspicious...

Stopping Attacks, Not Just Chasing CVEs | For years, the traditional model for protecting a Web application was to find every common vulnerability and exposure (CVE) relevant to your platform’s applications and to enable hundreds of individual rules to protect for specific exploits. Most on-premise web application firewalls (WAFs) still operate like this. With today’s rapid application release cycles, that’s...

Waterfall charts have been a staple of web performance analysis from the very beginnings of our industry in 2003, thanks to IBM Page Detailer and continued development on FireBug and of course WebPageTest.org. These visualizations are our default tools to understand the structure of our pages and have been fundamental to our understanding of web performance. Waterfall charts have one...

Script Management is a powerful feature of Akamai’s Adaptive Acceleration that helps you easily manage the impact of scripts and get protection from unresponsive third parties on your site. In this step-by-step video, we’ll take you through exactly how you can use Script Management, starting with a performance problem on a site and going through the ways that you can...

If you haven’t read the blog post on Move Faster with Akamai Pipeline and Federated Configuration Development, it does a great job describing how to promote changes through different development environments. This post goes into more detail on how to set up the pipeline described there. These features are part of the Akamai 2018 October Release. What’s Akamai Pipeline?   |...

As part of the October release, Akamai’s new and improved Property Manager CLI package is now generally available. This unlocks a foundationally new approach for working with Akamai configurations, and leveraging configurations as code. This package exposes two primary commands. akamai property-manager – for people who want to make configuration changes locally in their existing environments. This also empowers different...

Most web content is served over the true and trusted TCP protocol. However, TCP is not without its faults, especially when it comes to performance. Enter QUIC, a new protocol which promises to provide better performance than TCP in certain conditions. QUIC, short for Quick UDP Internet Connections, is an experimental transport layer network protocol which provides security comparable to...

Akamai announces two major releases per year, which makes it easier for you to keep up with new functionality and find all the latest information in one place. In this blog post I’ll provide an overview of what’s new, to show you how all the pieces fit together. If you’re interested in the finer details, there are links to individual...

The latest release of Akamai API Gateway builds on the formidable core features we launched in version 1.0. One of the new features we think you’ll love is API Gateway’s ability to cache GraphQL responses. Here’s why this is key: many companies are moving to GraphQL for their APIs, but there is no native caching capability in GraphQL. With API...