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Modern Application Management Requires Deeper Internet Visibility
Most IT teams regularly employ a range of tools to monitor application performance. But in an era where applications are running everywhere from the cloud to the network edge, the visibility being ...
Akamai Launches Gecko Edge Computing Services
Akamai's Gecko initiative promises to make it simpler to centrally manage and deploy application workloads on edge computing platforms ...
Akamai Makes Case For Next Era of Cloud Computing
Akamai Technologies today unveiled a cloud computing service that combines its ability to deploy applications at the edge with the cloud platform it gained via its acquisition of Linode. Shawn Michels, vice ...
Cloudflare Adds Digital Experience Monitoring to CDN Portfolio
At an online CIO Week event, Cloudflare today added a digital experience monitoring capability to a portfolio of services layered on top of its core content delivery network (CDN). Corey Mahan, director ...
Fastly Adds Observability Tools for Edge Computing Environments
Fastly, Inc. this week added a set of observability tools to its portfolio that are optimized for edge computing platforms connected to its content delivery network (CDN). Laura Thomson, senior vice president ...
The Benefits of a Distributed Cloud
The way applications are created has changed dramatically in just a few short years. It’s now all about rapid assembly and integration; applications built using microservices and containerized. Containers and the cloud ...
Edge Computing: Tech’s Next Trillion-Dollar OpportunityÂ
Even as technology continues to move into the cloud, a simultaneous shift is already underway in the opposite direction as computing increasingly moves to the edge. One key reason: by 2025, the ...
Akamai Adds Service to Optimize API Traffic
Akamai today launched an API Acceleration service specifically designed to accelerate application programming interface (API) calls using special purpose hardware, reserved capacity and prioritized routing. At the same time, the company is ...
More and More Enterprises Go Headless
IT faces high expectations for building and supporting omnichannel digital experiences. Simultaneously, web developers hold an evolving toolkit of architectural approaches to deliver content. One such framework gaining mindshare is headless, a ...
Cloudflare Lays Out GitOps Ambitions for CDN Platform
Cloudflare's acquisition of Linc is the latest move in the hosting provider's move to better align its content delivery network (CDN) service with the tools and frameworks organizations rely on to build ...
Akamai Enables Microservices Deployment at the Edge
Akamai today announced it is adding the ability to deploy microservices on its edge computing platform to enable developers to run latency-sensitive applications faster. David Theobald, principal product manager at Akamai, said ...
Defining the Database Requirements of Dynamic JAMstack Applications
Zero-configuration hosting solutions such as Zeit Now and Netlify are taking the frontend community by storm due to their ease of use. If we add static site generators such as Gatsby/Next.js/Nuxt.js/Hugo/Jekyll to ...