Hello HN!I'm Jeff Costa, product manager at Akamai for EdgeKV (and a few other things). As a CDN running hundreds of thousands of servers in 135 countries, we know something about caching, networks, and distributed computing. After we launched EdgeWorkers, our serverless compute product, we quickly realized that where data was located was critical. If you run JavaScript functions at the edge,...
Deployment times for config changes have been operating at the sub-5m timeframe for at least two years. It used to take hours (never days) to propagate changes across the server estate, but not anymore. And while we were admittedly late to the DevOps train, we have made up lost ground. We have nearly 100 individual APIs to control almost any aspect of our products. CLIs if you don't want to write to the API. A Sandbox to test config changes locally. The ability to validate OAuth tokens at the Edge, cache GraphQL responses, and throttle and/or quota API traffic on a global basis. Hashtag "legacy CDN."
This is what helped protect our customers, except for a single edge case for nine days in March 2013. The patch uses a separate memory heap for storage of private keys away from the normal heap. Get it and install it!<p>Read more here: http://goo.gl/loe0iV<p>Get the patch here: http://marc.info/?l=openssl-users&m=139723710923076&w=2
https://blogs.akamai.com/2012/03/open-sourcing-mobitest.html
Mobitest is a unique technology able to measure page load times on real mobile devices. It offers detailed performance information, ranging from total page load times to individual request headers and timings. It can also capture screenshots during page load, and show a video visualizing the page load as it happened.
I created a new app called TwistedPair as the sister utility to the Mac's native AirPort utility. I used my Macbook at work with a wired connection, and often have to "settle" for wired connections in hotels without WiFi. If I had a problem connecting, it took treading three menus deep in System Preferences, and got frustrating quickly. So I scratched my own itch, and made a menulet that...
I'm thinking some additional intelligence can be added to the process. Figure out how many OSS projects I have contributed to; figure out how many Github commits I have; figure out who I'm connected to on LinkedIn; what conferences have I spoken at?
Its this sort of metadata, not my cold set of resume skills, that will help employers find a proper match.
