One of the greatest signs of the success of the internet as a technology is how little the average person thinks about it. I’m not talking about the content itself. The streaming videos, online shopping sites, news and educational content, workplace productivity tools, and many other pieces of content we view and interact with online garner a great deal of attention. I’m instead talking about what’s involved in getting that content delivered reliably, quickly, and securely to a device. What seems to “just work” is in fact the result of an incredible amount of very careful engineering design. \r\n I’ve called out reliability, speed, and security because these are the principal challenges in delivering content on the internet. Throughout the rest of this blog series, Akamai’s experts will dive into many different parts of the internet technology stack and will discuss what it takes to make content delivery work reliably at scale.…