APIs have become a dominant mechanism in the modern web, allowing organizations to create powerful web and mobile experiences, while exposing back-end data and logic to create new and innovative offerings.
Your State’s Most-Searched Phobia | 2020
Phobias are more than being scared of the dark or the occasional Daddy Long Legs. While fear is an emotional response, phobias produce anxiety strong enough to affect someone’s quality of life. For instance, if you have a general fear of flying…
Visualize Visitor Prioritization in Real Time with mPulse
The internet has become one of the most important access points in our daily lives. Unexpected surges in demand can slow web pages and create service outages for unprepared websites. A poor user experience leads to dissatisfied customers, making it mor…
Measuring and Improving Core Web Vitals
Google recently announced a proposed update to its search ranking algorithm: the Page Experience Update. This change, which launches in 2021, includes more performance signals in the ranking algorithm. A subtle but important feature of the update is th…
Preparing the Edge for a Big Year in Live Streaming
Next year is shaping up to be a big one for live streaming. Typically characteristic of even years, when many major international sporting events take place, 2021 looks like it could defy the trend. Akamai is predicting an unprecedented surge in live s…
Three Cloud-First Akamai Initiatives for Your Cloud Journey
According to a 2020 State of the Cloud Report, 61% of organizations plan to focus on cloud migration this year and 93% have a multi-cloud strategy. This means that on average your organization is using 2.2 public clouds, multiplying your complexity and…
Timers, Metrics, and Dimensions: What’s New for mPulse in 2020
The October 2020 release marks the culmination of a large number of updates to mPulse, Akamai’s real user monitoring (RUM) solution:
What’s New in Edge Delivery
Welcome to day two of the Akamai Platform Update!
Today, we’re focusing on Akamai’s edge delivery products as well as other complimentary products that help drive great digital experiences. The last several months have been nothing short of unpreceden…
Edgeworkers Use Story: Creating High-Performing, Individualized Campaign Responses in Online Retail
As campaigns and digital experiences become more individualized, they can create a challenge for delivering content to consumers at the highest velocity. Having each paid search, social media, and email marketing campaign add unique query string parame…
Computing at the Edge
Welcome to the Akamai October 2020 Update – a week of product updates, new features, and innovations. We’ll be highlighting a different area of our portfolio each day this week. In today’s post, we look at our enhanced edge computing capabilities and h…