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 and analysis being surfaced are roughly akin to only being able to see a few yards ahead when […]
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 president of product management for compute and apps at Akamai, said Akamai Connected Cloud will provide the foundation for running a new generation […]
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 of product management for Cloudflare, said the Cloudflare Digital Experience Monitoring service extends a Cloudflare Zero Trust platform based on agent software dubbed […]
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 of engineering at Fastly, said the company is now providing a set of tools that enable DevOps teams to capture logging data and […]
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 have certainly been the catalyst for this progress and will continue to be the infrastructure on which developers create new and innovative applications. […]
Edge Computing: Tech’s Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
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 number of connected devices in use is expected to exceed 56 billion units, according to IDC. Edge computing is not a successor to […]
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 also making available a globally distributed key-value store dubbed EdgeKV that enables stateful applications to be deployed on its EdgeWorker nodes. Finally, Akamai […]
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 style that decouples front end user experiences from back end application logic. Legacy options for content delivery can be somewhat cumbersome in that […]
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 modern applications using GitOps processes, according to CEO Matthew Prince. Cloudflare also announced other updates and automation-related features, including a way to automatically […]