Application Performance Management/Monitoring
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.
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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 provided is limited. The metrics…
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Application Performance Management/Monitoring
Akamai’s Gecko initiative promises to make it simpler to centrally manage and deploy application workloads on edge computing platforms.
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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 L…
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
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).…
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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 Th…
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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 c…
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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:…
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
Akamai today launched an API Acceleration service specifically designed to accelerate application programming interface (API) calls using special purpose hardware, reserved capacit…
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
IT faces high expectations for building and supporting omnichannel digital experiences. Simultaneously, web developers hold an evolving toolkit of architectural approaches to deliv…
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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 organiza…
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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 Theo…
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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 Gats…
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This is part three of a series of three articles on building and delivering amazing apps at the edge. Read part one here, and part two here. Introduction There are millions of apps…
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Akamai today moved to further extend the number of capabilities it exposes via its content delivery network (CDN) that are designed to appeal to DevOps teams. Those enhancements in…
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This is part two of a series of three articles on building and delivering amazing apps at the edge. To read part one, click here. There are millions of apps available today, and it…
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If the only reason you have a web application firewall (WAF) is for compliance, you deserve better. It’s time to replace it with something that provides not only compliance, but re…
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The last most of us heard from Lance Crosby we thought he was riding off to an island sunset, to bask in the glow of a very successful exit from SoftLayer. The company he founded w…