Tag: content delivery network
Cloudflare Adds Digital Experience Monitoring to CDN Portfolio
Mike Vizard | | cdn, cloud platform, Cloudflare, content delivery network, digital experience, IT services, ITSMAt 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 ...
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 Expands Range of CDN Alternatives to the Public Cloud
Cloudflare, a provider of a content delivery network (CDN) based on more than 200 data centers, this week announced it has made available a Durable Objects capability in beta that makes it ...
How FaaS Is Disrupting Workflows: New CSP vs. CDN Services
Neil Glazebrook | | CDN services, cloud service providers, content delivery network, CSP, edge computing, FaaS, function as a serviceFunction as a Service (FaaS), the popular incarnation of serverless computing, along with containers, has played an important role in the migration from monolithic application architectures to those based on microservices. Its ...
Akamai Extends Scope of DevOps Integrations
Mike Vizard | | A/B testing, CI/CD, content delivery network, devops, DevOps pipeline, edge networkingAkamai today extended its DevOps strategy to provide tighter integrations with continuous integration/continuous (CI/CD) platforms and IT automation tools such as Terraform from HashiCorp. In addition, Akamai is adding support for serverless ...
Is Your Digital Product Ready for International Prime Time?
Ruchi Vaidya Tomar | | coding, content delivery network, database, digital product, internationalization, localization, product development, product globalization, unicodeWhen a digital product is developed in and for a particular geography and market, the enterprise and developer/architect function is focused on getting it to market first. Once it matures and receives ...
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, ...
Akamai Further Extends Reach into DevOps Realm
Akamai is extending its campaign to make content delivery networks (CDNs) a natural extension of DevOps processes by adding more application programming interfaces (APIs) and other automated functions to simplify a variety ...
Akamai Gives DevOps Teams More Control
Mike Vizard | | Akamai, content delivery network, developers, devops, end user experience, mobile applications, web applicationsWhen most DevOps teams think about platforms, it’s usually a conversation about some form of software sitting on a server in a data center. But many web and mobile applications employ a ...
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 ...