We are pleased to announce the beta launch of EdgeKV, Akamai’s distributed key-value store. EdgeKV is enabling technology for EdgeWorkers, our serverless computing platform that allows developers to create services using JavaScript and deploy them across our platform. When writing JavaScript, data persistence is often necessary to save data from a user interaction or retrieve contextual data to evaluate inside a function.  \r\n Until now, if an EdgeWorker required data, it was stored in the script itself, in a flat file, or retrieved via an expensive round-trip to a cloud or origin data center. Each of these options carries downsides: increased latency, commingling of data and code, and more maintenance. EdgeKV was purpose-built to address these issues by ensuring that data lives close to the user creating or consuming it. \r\n EdgeKV is a distributed key-value (KV) store designed to store unstructured or semi-structured data.…