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akamai.com
Company blog · akamai.com/blogsecurity
akamai.com is the company blog at akamai.com, writing about security. Since 2008, 207 different Hacker News readers have linked it 274 times, most often “Akamai: State of the Internet Report”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Akamai's pages mainly as data sources, chiefly its State of the Internet reports on broadband speeds and its network visualizations, plus a few technical papers and a page-weight post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Akamai: State of the Internet Report10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2008-06-01
- Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2012-01-13
- Panchan, a new peer-to-peer botnet and SSH worm for Linux is discovered4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-06-15
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-11-07
- IPv6 Adoption Visualization3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-12
- /us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/media-delivery-map.jsp3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-12
- Exploiting a Critical Spoofing Vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-26
- /us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/real-time-web-monitor.jsp3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-13
- /ipv63 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-06-08
- /html/customers/customer_list.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-10-07
What Hacker News says?
It's working terribly in France. France has some of the slowest broadband in the OECD: https://www.akamai.com/fr/fr/multimedia/documents/state-of-t... . Just 18% of French households have connections faster than 15 mbps, versus 48% of American households.
Comment linking /fr/fr/multimedia/documents/state-of-the-internet/q1-2017-state-of-the-internet-connectivity-report.pdf
on “Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon”Submitted Akamai to Acquire Linode as a story · 986 points
HN discussionRight, and thanks for separating how to approach this issue in creation of an app vs maintenance. Real world issues like having a million images that are not compressed or sized correctly, or having part of an application out of your control that cannot be modernized or share assets with another part get in the way. There are companies that strive to outsource this work to a platform / appliance, like the recently a…
Comment linking /blaze
on “Page Weight Matters”Submitted TP240PhoneHome Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Vector as a story · 186 points
HN discussionAkamai Technologies | https://www.akamai.com | Cambridge, MA | onsite, potential of remote | VISA Edge Cloud Akamai Labs is building a new team with a mission to rapidly evolve Akamai’s distributed platform leveraging automated virtualization architectures towards highly strategic organizational goals. Help us build a private cloud using KVM. We are currently hiring for several positions related to Edge Cloud! Multi…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted Phishing Campaigns Targeting USPS See as Much Web Traffic as the USPS Itself as a story · 144 points
HN discussionAkamai Technologies | https://www.akamai.com | Cambridge, MA | onsite, potential of remote | VISA Blockchain Akamai Labs is building a new team with a mission to strategically apply blockchain technology to business requirements for a highly available, high throughput, highly secure transaction system. We are currently hiring for several positions related to blockchain! Senior Software Engineer (Blockchain Technolog…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted IPv6 Adoption Visualization as a story · 104 points
HN discussionThe U.S. is not far behind Sweden in global average connection speeds: http://www.akamai.com/dl/akamai/akamai-soti-q413.pdf?WT.mc_i... (Page 19, Figure 20). Sweden directly subsidized deployment of fiber in rural areas: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/the-broadband-gap-w... . It also required municipalities to build certain infrastructure, which is something the U.S. federal government lacks the power to do.
Comment linking /dl/akamai/akamai-soti-q413.pdf?WT.mc_id=soti_Q413
on “FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet”Submitted Even Akamai screws up their SSL certs as a story · 91 points
HN discussion> Investors and shareholders are not in favor of pouring billions of dollars a year into infrastructure either. Comcast spent $5.4 billion on capital expenditures in 2013: http://www.cmcsa.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=821438 . TWC spent $3.2 billion: http://ir.timewarnercable.com/investor-relations/investor-ne... . Verizon and AT&T regularly top the list of companies with the highest U.S. capital expenditures, an…
Comment linking /dl/akamai/akamai-soti-q413.pdf?WT.mc_id=soti_Q413
on “FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet”Submitted TCP Middlebox Reflection: Coming to a DDoS Near You as a story · 83 points
HN discussionhttps://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/front-end-optimizatio... Opt-in by the publisher, of course.
Comment linking /us/en/resources/front-end-optimization-feo.jsp
on “I decided to disable AMP on my site”Submitted User-Agent Reduction as a story · 76 points
HN discussionThis is bigger than Facebook. https://imgur.com/a/gePwi0i https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re...
Comment linking /us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/real-time-web-monitor.jsp
on “Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage”Submitted Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning as a story · 52 points
HN discussion:/ Something fun happening in Germany? https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re... And Level3 traffic going to Argentina? https://twitter.com/bgpstream/status/1105819050968580096 And GreatBritain going to cambodia? https://bgpstream.com/event/197968
Comment linking /us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/real-time-web-monitor.jsp
on “Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage”Submitted Akamai Remembers Danny Lewin as a story · 32 points
HN discussionThat's true, but it is a good indicator. Here's a better map from Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re... Also, check out the "Attacks" tab. That one really lights up. Like seriously lights up. Something is going on... all over. US, China, Russia, EU...
Comment linking /us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/real-time-web-monitor.jsp
on “Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage”Submitted Akamai launches HD Network that delivers TV-like, HD-quality video online. as a story · 26 points
HN discussion> Why does then EU countries have much cheaper and faster internet and cell data than the US? At least as to wired Internet, they don't: https://www.akamai.com/fr/fr/multimedia/documents/state-of-t... see also: https://www.recode.net/2017/12/13/16773062/global-internet-s... . The U.S. beats Germany, the U.K., France, Spain, and Italy (the countries comprising the large majority of the EU population). The U.S. is als…
Comment linking /fr/fr/multimedia/documents/state-of-the-internet/q1-2017-state-of-the-internet-connectivity-report.pdf;
on “Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire”Submitted TLP Is Not a Suggestion as a story · 25 points
HN discussion> Imagine you could send an audio or video stream to potentially everyone with internet access in the whole world but would need to pay only for the bandwidth of exactly one stream. That would be very nice for you, or Spotify, or Netflix, but not such a good deal as the current one for your ISP. This mostly happens with Akamai [1] and Netflix [2] CDN appliances on edge networks though (content caching boxes used to…
Comment linking /us/en/multimedia/documents/akamai/akamai-accelerated-network-partner-aanp-faq.pdf
on “Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8”Submitted Akamai and Cloudfare issues in Europe as a story · 15 points
HN discussionAkamai has been using a system like this since 1999 or so, nicely documented in this presentation to LISA some years ago: http://www.akamai.com/dl/technical_publications/lisa_2010.pd...
Comment linking /dl/technical_publications/lisa_2010.pdf
on “Osquery: Expose the operating system as a relational database”Submitted Panchan, a new peer-to-peer botnet and SSH worm for Linux is discovered as a story · 11 points
HN discussionDynamoDB paper [1] - one of the big AP, KV stores that kicked off the NoSQL wave. Paper about Akamai[2] - "Nuggets in content delivery" Also, acolyers blog "the morning paper". He reviews and explains one paper every day. its great because you get a sense of whats current. [1] http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp... [2] https://www.akamai.com/cn/zh/multimedia/documents/technical-...
Comment linking /cn/zh/multimedia/documents/technical-publication/algorithmic-nuggets-in-content-delivery-technical-publication.pdf
on “Ask HN: CS papers for software architecture and design?”Submitted Anatomy of a SYN-ACK Attack as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAkamai's privacy policy on personal data: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/privacy-policies/privacy-shield...
Comment linking /us/en/privacy-policies/privacy-shield-policy.jsp
on “Why we should end the data economy”Submitted Akamai’s [state of the internet] Q1 2016 report [pdf] as a story · 10 points
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