22nd October, 2014
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Akamai Edge is the premier event for Internet innovators, tech professionals and online business pioneers who together are forging a Faster Forward World. GlobalDots attended the 2014 Akamai Edge Conference, spanning from October 6th (pre-conference) to October 10th.
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The conference included a showcase of Akamai’s new products and solutions. CEO of Akamai, Dr. Tom Leighton the opened the event, focusing on the IoT, calling it a hyper-connected world. Followed up by inspiring presentation of Red Bulls Media House CTO Andreas Gall, the conference was packed with intensive workshops, panel discussions and product announcements. Akamai once again proved it’s by far the key player in CDN / Cloud industry with clear vision and remarkable innovation and execution.
Key takeaways and links for further reading:
StreamZilla, the provider of streaming media delivery solutions that power hundreds of customers around the globe, announced it’s new CDN solution that combines the federated CDNs of various providers including Amazon, LeaseWeb and Level 3 among others. This new CDN leverages not only its own network infrastructure but by using various APIs also uses its partner CDNs as its own edge nodes. The offering comes with all of StreamZilla’s advanced features including instant provisioning, real-time transmuxing, cache purging and analytics among others. The Adaptive CDN solution has its own algorithms of finding and selecting the nodes from its partner networks to ensure both highest performance as well as lowest bandwidth costs. StreamZilla expressed their satisfaction with their new offering.
Read more at CDN Advisor.
Drupal is a widely used content management system with more than one million users, designed to integrate with caching layers and content delivery networks (CDNs). For all other requests, the cookies are filtered down to just the session, and no-cache cookies preserve only the functionality that Drupal needs. If all the backends are unhealthy, cookies can be removed to allow the cache lookup to send anonymous (unlogged in) pages to clients so that they get a reasonable response. Error pages are set to cache for 10 minutes only. To make sure clients don’t just see a nasty Varnish error, any failures are sent via the error function and a customized error message is sent in its place. In this way, it allows Drupal to control the caching times for most objects as needed and ensures the best user experience.
Full story at Fastly Blog.
Retailers essentially need to be mindful of the ways in which they are implementing security and keep the good guys in mind as much as — or more than — they keep the bad guys in mind. Consider the following 5 strategies:
Check the full article at Apparel.
Within the Internet Retailer 500, a list of the largest U.S. online retailers in terms of annual revenue, the average desktop page load time on a cable or Fios connection is a whopping 8.6 seconds. That’s leagues away from the general web benchmark of 2.0 seconds, a page load time that begets great user experiences.These are the top 3 traits of retailers with great end-user experience:
Full article at: http://www.yottaa.com/blog/3-essential-traits-of-retailers-with-great-end-user-experience
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