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What Changes When You Move Your Logic to the Smarter, More Connected Edge?

Danielle Cook has been a driving force in the cloud native industry since 2016, helping organizations adopt enterprise-ready technologies while communicating their business value. She co-authored and maintains the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model, co-chairs the CNCF Cartografos Working Group, and co-authored Admiral Bash’s Island Adventure. A CNCF Ambassador and founder of KubeCrash, a virtual bi-annual meeting, she champions open source and community-driven activism.

Key takeaways

Akamai Functions transforms the edge into a smarter front door and full compute layer that acts as the glue uniting security, data, CDNs, and inference on a single network.

Organizations can easily offload mass redirects, data transformations, and nuanced bot triage from the expensive origin to the edge to eliminate unnecessary infrastructure overhead.

Relocating these workflows results in massive latency drops, such as 10-millisecond…