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 […]
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 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 possible to run stateful applications across a distributed serverless Cloudflare Workers service. Company CEO Matthew Prince said Durable Objects provide a truly unified […]
How FaaS Is Disrupting Workflows: New CSP vs. CDN Services
Function 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 introduction has changed the way developers think about infrastructure and application development. While at the same time, it has also driven evolution in […]
Akamai Extends Scope of DevOps Integrations
Akamai 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 computing functions to Akamai EdgeWorkers, a JavaScript-based framework through which application logic can be executed on the edge of the Akamai content delivery […]
Is Your Digital Product Ready for International Prime Time?
When 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 greater engagement, enterprise is then looking to continuously add and develop a stable product that is feature-rich, scalable and robust. So, when the […]
Akamai Extends Scope of DevOps Reach
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 include HTTP/2 performance optimizations and the ability to automatically load font libraries, as well as providing access to “middle-mile” logs that will enable DevOps teams to more […]
Building Amazing Apps, Part 2: Optimizing the Back End
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’s incredibly easy for any user to download and install any of them with just a few taps on a screen or […]
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 of tasks. Specifically, Akamai has added an Akamai Sandbox that makes it simpler to conduct tests within the context of the Akamai continuous […]