Ask any developer, and they will tell you that good and timely application telemetry is essential for building, maintaining and optimizing apps. Without proper feedback, developers are left in the dark to identify logical errors, compliance issues, and areas for optimization. Cutting the application is a central part of the development process, providing key knowledge […]
The plan of our new premium managed databases for resource-intensive work loads
Each application is unique. Some prioritize cost efficiency. Others claim the highest performance on any scale. This is why Akamai offers flexible managed database service plans. When we respond to a need from our customers, we introduce a premium option built for the purpose for the most demanding work amounts. Developers rely on Akamai managed […]
Looking from inside to launching our next item storage
It seems difficult to believe, but we are approaching 6 months since the launch of the project we internally call the storage of the Gen2 item. In 2025, between January and June, we launched Gen2 in 8 global regions, with additional regions coming in the second half of this year. Retrospect is a great way […]
Key Takeaways from Kubecon + CloudNativeCon India 2025
Kubecon + CloudNativecon India 2025 wrapped in Hyderabad last week, combining thousands of developers, platform engineers, and indigenous cloud practitioners for two days of intensive learning and collaboration. The second annual edition of India has shown not only the technical evolution of Kubernets, but the fundamental change in the way organizations think about the developer’s […]
Benchmarking vpus and gpus for media work loads
Akamai Cloud has recently introduced the support of Netint (VPUS) T1U video processing units, which make these cards powerful available at an hourly rate when using virtual cloud engines. They join NVIDIA RTX ™ 4000 ADA Generation GPUs already offered in the Cloud Akamai portfolio. To evaluate real-world performance and energy efficiency, we joined Cires21, […]
As the cloud wrapping evolved to optimize the caching of a small object
This blog was written in collaboration with Ulhas Math, whose expertise as a senior cloud wrapping architect defined the architectural evolution and the improvement of the performance described below. His guide was instrumental in addressing the scaling challenges posed by the web traffic of a small object. Cloud Wrapper launched in 2018 as Akamai’s dedicated […]
AI AGENTIC: How autonomous agents are changing the game
At the heart of many modern AI applications there are large generative models such as large language models (LLMs) or image generation models. These models are trained on huge amounts of data and may contain billions of parameters. The generative AI (Genai) has been a transformative technology, which is generating content such as text, images, […]
Generative Customization at the end: The future of e-commerce is not (simply) in the cloud
The edge computers are transforming personalization into e-commerce. The cloud is becoming the factory, not just the showroom, as personalization moves to the edge. Here’s a common scenario we see with our retail customers. Buyer Click through your homepage. Their intention is clear. You have five seconds, maybe less, to try to understand them. Only […]
Why AI systems use vector databases to improve performance and reduce costs
AI training is resource-intensive. It takes massive data sets, advanced algorithms, and specialized hardware (read: expensive GPUs) to teach a model how to understand language, image, or audio. But even after that training is complete, the inferences that run (the process of generating outputs) may be taxed in the same way. Real-time LLM question for […]
Open source & full managed: Databases working with AIVE on AKAMAI
Virtually there is no application without a database in one form or another. User data and behavior, product information, and all operating details need to be stored and made available for recovery and manipulation. There are different databases for different needs, but we can say that the most widely used are relational databases. Mysql and […]