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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…

DISCLAIMER: Akamai Product Manager here. 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) …

Have they fixed the "Google Chrome Helper: CoreText CopyFontsForRequest received mig IPC error (FFFFFECC) from font server" error that has been around forever?

Akamai published a blog post about their role: https://blogs.akamai.com/2014/11/lets-encrypt-boosts-push-fr...

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 th…

That part of the IRS site is not on Akamai's secure network. Its for HTTP-only sites that don't care if a user gets a scary browser warning before clicking through it, and getting …

One word: Biometrics.

I would employ a secondary DNS service to replicate your zone files.

I'm a Solution Architect at Akamai, and we can definitely help you out. PM me if you want to chat.

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…

Apple about to announce dividend program?

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 …

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Good question. If there isn't one, lets create one.

That is a great roadmap. I'm a new Ruby dev, and am grateful for this info.

Zed: I've been doing your Ruby tutorial for the last three weeks, and have learned more on yours than any other. Way to go.

Perhaps create a short video or animation that shows the problem, and how FinalTouch solves it. Put a short one on your landing page, and a longer one (with audio) on youtube.

Tell him to put a QR code on the flyer. Link the QR code into Google Analytics and some sort of reward for the user decoding it.

Startup Weekend Atlanta (Start Atlanta)! We are planning the 3rd annual startup weekend in Atlanta. We have a base Wordpress site up, and need some graphic design help. The more pr…

The recruiting industry is ripe for disruption. Most headhunters use nothing more than keyword-matching software to find candidates. How many recruiting emails do you get where a r…

More info here: http://lifehacker.com/5154698/sync-files-and-folders-outside...