INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
Adoption of Akamai API Gateway
demonstrates how DevOps can
drive end-user web experiences
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kamai Technologies, a worldwide
cloud delivery platform, has
announced significant early
momentum for its Akamai API Gateway,
including successful customer adoption
across a number of markets.
Launched in April, the Akamai API
Gateway is designed to eliminate the
common challenges in scale, secure access
and delivery that developers face when
publishing their Application Program
Interfaces (APIs).
Early customer deployments on the Akamai
Intelligent Platform, which delivers more
than 445 billion API hits and 2.4 petabytes
of API traffic daily, underscore Akamai’s
ongoing commitment to enabling DevOps
initiatives to achieve digital success.
Among customers that deployed the Akamai
API Gateway, use cases have emerged
that demonstrate its value. As businesses
continue to seek ways to make delivering,
securing and managing APIs easier, they are
using the API Gateway to:
unparalleled availability and security.
Leveraging the Akamai API Gateway,
the customer was able to enjoy seamless
integration with Akamai’s platform
as well as the granular access control
provided by the solution
• Offload token authorisation to
reduce costs: A leading provider of hotel
business process management (BPM)
solutions has implemented the Akamai
API Gateway to throttle API traffic and
control requests. The company uses the
Akamai API Gateway to offload token
authorisation, allowing the company to
increase scalability and reduce costs and highly effective approach to delivering,
securing, and governing the use of APIs
on our platform. We believe the result is
an-industry best approach for connecting
DevOps, API management and the delivery
of web experiences.”
“Akamai is committed to enabling IT and
development to better collaborate on
improving application quality and business
impact” said Craig Adams, Vice President
Product Management, Web Performance
Business Unit, Akamai Technologies.
“The Akamai API Gateway brings together
Akamai’s DevOps solutions with a holistic Akamai’s recently introduced API developer
resource site equips developers with the tools
and resources to get started with the Akamai
API Gateway. The site includes getting-
started guides, a product demo, and use
cases so API developers and DevOps teams
can understand how the solution can add
value to their applications. n
Akamai brings its API Gateway to the edge
for easier governance, monitoring and scale
of APIs that are critical to enabling new
business models. The Gateway frees up
time spent on managing and maintaining
published APIs, allowing developers to focus
on API strategy, design and implementation
with increased agility.
• Manage external APIs at peak
demand: An international retailer
deployed the Akamai API Gateway
to manage external APIs, helping it
to accommodate peak demand for
applications that run across its website,
mobile app and in-store kiosks. The retailer
leverages Akamai’s administrative APIs
to integrate the Gateway within existing
workflows and to maximise application
security for API endpoints using Akamai’s
Kona Site Defender.
• Streamline app interactions: A global
logistics provider has adopted the Akamai
API Gateway to streamline customer
e-commerce application interactions
and realise the benefits of Akamai’s
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