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TFIR webinar with Shawn Michels from Akamai.

Edge Native is the Future and Akamai has Started Building it with Gecko

In this episode, Shawn Michels, VP of Product Management at Akamai, joins me to dive deep into Akamai’s recently announced, bold Gecko initiative, which aims to embed generalized edge compute into Akamai’s existing edge network.
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Create Cloud Resources With the Power of Pulumi | Exploring Pulumi In Depth

In this video, @CodeWithHarry sets up Pulumi, an IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tool for building and deploying your applications.
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Akamai is bringing its deep expertise in CDN, security and public cloud to Cloud Native, webinar featured image.

Akamai is bringing its deep expertise in CDN, security and public cloud to Cloud Native

Dive into Akamai's cloud strategy as they unleash their CDN & Security expertise for cloud-native & GenAI Use Cases.
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Generalized Edge Compute (Gecko)

Gecko

Deploy edge-native distributed applications with powerful cloud computing at the edge.
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Metadata GA
Linode

Customize Deployments with Akamai’s Metadata Service

Jan 2, 2024
by Linode
Our cloud-init powered metadata service is out of beta and available in more data centers.
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Linode

Introducing Warm Migrations on Akamai

Dec 13, 2023
by Linode
Our new unified migrations significantly improve cold migration reliability and introduce warm migrations for quickly resizing VMs.
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Deploy MainConcept Transcoders & More with Marketplace from Akamai Connected Cloud.
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New in Marketplace: MainConcept Transcoder & Live Streaming Software Apps

Dec 12, 2023
by Travis Baka
Easily deploy compute instances for transcoding live and media streaming, or easily start streaming with MainConcept Live Encoder.
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Robot Squid

The Small Game is the Right Game for These Founders

Robot Squid evaluated several cloud providers, searching for reliability and ease of use. Akamai stood out immediately.
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Nathan Flurry & Nicholas Kissel, Rivet

Game Creators Turn into Infrastructure Masters

Challenges with DigitalOcean's pricing, support, and reliability led Rivet to discover Rise, Akamai's cloud computing startup program.
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Metadata Service Now Available in Open Beta

Aug 28, 2023
by Hillary Wilmoth
We’re adding a metadata service powered by cloud-init to make configuring compute instances faster and easier than ever.
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Information on AMD Zenbleed
Jim Ackley

Information on AMD Zenbleed

Jul 26, 2023
by Jim Ackley
We successfully implemented recommended mitigations from AMD and have confirmed that our cloud computing systems are no longer vulnerable to exploitation. 
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Linode

Behind the Scenes: Incremental Infrastructure Improvements

Mar 8, 2023
by Linode
Building for the future with infrastructure improvements, including more powerful CPUs, NVMe local storage, and firmware updates.
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