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developer.akamai.com is the company blog at developer.akamai.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Akamai developer blog posts as references on CDN and edge topics: performance case studies, HTTP/3 and QUIC introductions, CORS preflight and custom headers, and edge features like EdgeWorkers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
It is a very convenient side effect and yes, users care a lot about load times as well, as multiple case studies show, eg. https://developer.akamai.com/blog/2015/09/01/mobile-web-perf... The reason users care is the reason people hop on amp.
Comment linking /blog/2015/09/01/mobile-web-performance-monitoring-conversion-rate
on “The Bullshit Web”Submitted Akamai introduces new whoami tool for DNS resolver information as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes You can do most thing with configuration. EdgeWorkers are also available if you want to run your own JS at the Edge https://developer.akamai.com/akamai-edgeworkers-overview
Comment linking /akamai-edgeworkers-overview
on “Akamai to Acquire Linode”Submitted Measuring the Performance of Firefox Quantum with RUM as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAnother thing to note about custom headers is that when used in an XHR (eg: X-Requested-With), they will force a preflight request (with the OPTIONS method). If your webserver isn't configured to handle OPTIONS and return the correct CORS headers, that will effectively break clients. Best to just never use custom headers. I've written more about this here: https://developer.akamai.com/blog/2015/08/17/solving-options…
Comment linking /blog/2015/08/17/solving-options-performance-issue-spas
on “HTTPWTF”Submitted Akamai Connector for Varnish out of beta as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAkamai also provides something similar: * https://developer.akamai.com/blog/2018/05/10/introducing-new...
Comment linking /blog/2018/05/10/introducing-new-whoami-tool-dns-resolver-information
on “Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?”Submitted Akamai APIs - OPEN as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMajor CDNs seem to be adopting HTTP/3 just fine: Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/http3-the-past-present-and-futur... Akamai: https://developer.akamai.com/blog/2020/04/14/quick-introduct... Fastly: https://www.fastly.com/blog/why-fastly-loves-quic-http3 Not to mention Google, which uses it a lot for regular pages and for content (eg: YouTube video). Adoption client-side also seems to be moving quickly too. I…
Comment linking /blog/2020/04/14/quick-introduction-http3
on “HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-generation web protocol”Submitted Edge Compute – Akamai Developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFastly: https://github.com/h2o/quicly Facebook: https://github.com/facebook/proxygen/issues/127#issuecomment... Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/head-start-with-quic/ Akamai: https://developer.akamai.com/blog/2018/10/10/introducing-qui...
Comment linking /blog/2018/10/10/introducing-quic-web-content
on “Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust”Submitted Akamai as Code with Jsonnet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNo idea, but it seems to be using Akamai Player: https://player.akamai.com/ It seems to have an event called "autoplayblocked": https://developer.akamai.com/tools/AdaptiveMediaPlayer/docs/...
Comment linking /tools/AdaptiveMediaPlayer/docs/web/tutorial-04-autoplay.html
on “Private firefighters go to work for California's wealthy”* https://developer.akamai.com/stuff/Optimization/TCP_Optimiza... * https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/news/press/2013-press/aka...
Comment linking /stuff/Optimization/TCP_Optimizations.html
on “New phenomenon breaks inbound TCP policing”Akamai already solved this https://developer.akamai.com/blog/2019/06/18/announcing-grap... But looks like they will build more out of the box integrations.
Comment linking /blog/2019/06/18/announcing-graphql-caching-capability-akamai-api-gateway
on “GraphCDN is now Stellate and raised $30M”
