Web Performance
The Impact of a CAPTCHA on Your User Experience
User experience (UX) impacts outcomes. A user-friendly CAPTCHA can help protect your business performance, brand reputation, & customer relationships. ...
Tokyo Streaming Traffic Runs Rings Around Rio
With 35 medals at stake, the last full day of competition during the games in Tokyo generated the highest video streaming traffic for 30-plus customers on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform ...
World-Class OTT Streaming from MwareTV with Akamai
Since the onset of the pandemic, home entertainment has never been more important. Millions of users across the globe have turned to over-the-top (OTT) streaming and live TV to bring much-needed diversion ...
Location- and Device-agnostic Security for the Mobile Workforce
I've spent my entire career in technology and can still recall the time when a desktop PC was the only way to work. (Truth be told, I'm also old enough to remember ...
Akamai Helps Q-dance Bring Its Tribe to Defqon.1 at Home — a Global Virtual Festival Experience
Every year, Q-dance (part of the ID&T group), a Dutch electronic music experience company, delights its die-hard fans (or their "tribe") at the world's largest hardstyle festival, Defqon.1. Helicopters, simulated earthquakes, special ...
HTTP/3 and QUIC: Past, Present, and Future
You may have seen the announcements over the past two weeks -- the IETF QUIC RFCs have been published! That leads to a lot of questions, depending on how closely you've followed ...
XITE Music Video Platform Amplifies Entertainment with Akamai’s Help
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 ...
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. I've seen the evolution from 1x to 3G to 4G and now 5G over the many years I've worked ...
Serverless Storage at the Edge (EdgeKV Beta)
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 ...
Edge Redirector Cloudlet Gets Faster
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 ...
