The Akamai Blog

I’m often asked about shadow APIs and shadow API parameters—even by people with a lot of experience in the API development space.

Learn about the risks to service availability during the 2024 U.S. presidential election — and the six steps you can take now to ensure your cyber resilience.

Learn about the different types of bot attacks, why they happen, and how to protect your website from these threats with effective bot mitigation strategies.

In this post, we’ll go over why you need to scrub EXIF image data and how to integrate this process into your DevOps pipeline.

In this post, we’ll look at how prerendering services from Prerender.io can help you overcome SEO obstacles when using these frameworks.

When we think about keeping websites safe, we often imagine complex firewalls, multi-layered defenses, and robust encryption.

In-person interactions can build trust, foster collaboration, and achieve efficiency — especially for complex negotiations — even in the post-pandemic world.

It’s common for security teams to focus their best efforts on an organization’s primary production domain.

A new Akamai white paper explains why you need to prioritize modern Layer 7 DDoS protection — and details how you can guide your security efforts.

Simplify operations without sacrificing control. Read how Akamai delivers a robust defense with innovations like Behavioral DDoS Engine and AI Assistant.

In addition to several articles that help you keep your applications and websites safe, we’re sharing news on the latest Akamai PowerShell release, instructions for building a NAT Gateway in a VPC, new docs for migrating to Linode Object Storage, and more.

In-memory data management caching tools store frequently accessed data in memory, which significantly improves performance by reducing how often the database needs to be accessed.

Learn best practices for API security — and explore why WAAP on its own isn’t enough

Streaming platforms scale to accommodate millions of concurrent viewers across diverse devices and network conditions, making efficient adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming essential.