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For deploying a Website in the Cloud, I used Linode Cloud Computing Services. Linode provides an easy way to design, build, and deploy your own cloud strategy using the following products: COMPUTE – Build, release, and scale faster with virtual machines and tools for every workload. Figure 1: Linode Compute Services. STORAGE – Dependable, easily-accessible storage and management. Figure 2: Linode Storage Services. DATABASES – Simple, Reliable, and Scalable Managed Databases....

TL;DR This blog post explores concerns about the costs of delivering uncompressed and compressed content on Akamai and other Content Delivery Networks, whilst providing a solution to help organizations effectively manage these costs. Overview Nowadays, digital businesses and organisations are looking for improving the performance of their Websites and Application aiming to provide a better experience for their end-users. One of the optimisation techniques available today is Content Compression (A.K.A. HTTP Compression)....

Intro In this blog post, I will show how to configure Akamai DataStream and how to use Sumo Logic to look at raw log data and aggregated metrics provided by this product. What’s Hot? Have you checked the previous Your Application at the Edge [S01E04] post? It details how to use the Akamai Monitoring tool under Akamai Control Center to analyse user traffic stats and well as how to use WebPageTest to understand the website performance....

Intro In this blog, I will show you how to use the Monitoring Tools within Control Centre to analyse user traffic stats as well as how to use WebPageTest to understand the Website performance. What’s Hot? Have you checked the previous Your Application at the Edge [S01E03] blog post? It details how to use Ion to deliver the HTML page and other static assets to end-users by enabling the CDN features and capabilities such as caching provided by Akamai....

Intro This blog post will cover the details on how to deliver your Website or Application using the Akamai Edge Platform as the CDN infrastructure. What’s Hot? Have you checked the previous Your Application at the Edge [S01E02] blog post? It explains how you can use NS as an origin. Context As described in the previous post, Figure 1 shows the end-to-end architecture in which we have the origins (on the left-hand side), the Akamai Edge Platform (in the middle), and the end-users (on the right-hand side)....

Intro In this blog post, I will explain how to create a NetStorage (NS) Group, how to upload content to NetStorage using FileZilla and how to create a simple Akamai Delivery Property. What’s Hot? Have you checked the previous Your Application at the Edge [S01E01] blog post? If you are curious about the reason why the series exist, then go and have a look at the first blog post. Context Before we crack on with the NS implementation I would like to give a high-level overview of the scenario....

Intro Have you ever wondered how to onboard a Website or Application into Akamai? How do you improve the delivery of a Website or Application using the solutions available in Akamai? And have you ever thought about the challenges and pain points that you might have to face when using Akamai’s solutions? These are the questions that have been floating in my mind for a while and I will try to address them from a technical perspective throughout the series of blog posts....