The first-ever Akamai EdgeWorkers Coding Challenge gave participants the opportunity to harness the power and potential of serverless computing using the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform. Winning developer teams built functions using Akamai EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV products that ranged from DNS acceleration and cost-reducing traffic efficiencies to personalized experiences for news and cloud gaming.  \r\n Accelerating DNS \r\n The team from first-place winner iQIYI used EdgeWorkers to deploy Edge DNS over HTTPS (DoH) as close to the end user as possible. The China-based streaming service realized a 40% reduction in DNS resolution times across the 87 worldwide locations in which the service was implemented. \r\n “iQIYI developed a solution that can significantly accelerate our DoH service while also protecting the back against overloads. The combination of capabilities helps improve the overall stability of iQIYI’s DoH service,” said Mr.…