Extra Credit

Akamai CDN

Official docs outline

14 sections
  1. Property Manager

    Property configuration: rules, matches and behaviors that control edge delivery.

  2. Property hostnames and edge hostnames

    Mapping your domain to a property via edge hostnames and CNAMEs.

  3. Caching

    How Akamai caches content, TTLs and cache keys.

  4. Rules, matches and behaviors

    The rule tree that decides how requests are handled.

  5. Activation and testing

    Activating configurations on staging and production networks.

  6. Ion

    Web performance product: acceleration features for sites and applications.

  7. Certificate Provisioning System

    Provisioning and managing TLS certificates for Akamai properties.

  8. Edge DNS

    Cloud DNS service with zones and records.

  9. EdgeWorkers

    Running JavaScript at the edge to customize delivery.

  10. EdgeKV

    Edge key-value data store for use from EdgeWorkers.

  11. Cloudlets

    Value-added apps such as edge redirector, request control and audience segmentation.

  12. Web application security

    WAF, bot management, DDoS and API protection.

  13. API Acceleration

    Performance and security for APIs.

  14. Image and Video Manager

    On-the-fly image and video optimization.

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