Tag: cdn
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
Brecht De Rooms | | APIs, cdn, content delivery networks, distributed database, FaaS, JAMstack, zero configurationZero-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 ...
Building Amazing Apps, Part 3: Optimizing the Network
Javier Garza | | app development, application design, cdn, content delivery networks, DNS, Domain Name System, edge computing, latency optimization, protocol optimizationThis 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 ...
Akamai Extends Scope of DevOps Reach
Mike Vizard | | Akamai, cdn, CI/CD, content delivery network, continuous delivery, continuous integration, devopsAkamai 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 include HTTP/2 performance optimizations ...
Building Amazing Apps, Part 2: Optimizing the Back End
Javier Garza | | apm, app development, application design, back end, cdn, content delivery network, devops automationThis 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, ...
It’s Time to Break Up with Your WAF
James Wickett | | application security, cdn, compliance, content delivery network, cyberthreats, network security, PCI, security, WAF, Web Application FirewallIf 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 real security ...
Lance Crosby’s Vision To Bring Scale, Speed and Security To Developers with StackPath
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 ...