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Edge Redirector Cloudlet Gets Faster

Akamai·Jeffrey Costa·about 1 month ago
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Written by Maksym Novoseltsev - Senior Software Engineer, and Jeffrey Costa - Senior Product Manager, Web Performance \r\n Cloudlets Policy Manager often takes a while to load, which is a by-product of its original design where every policy activation is an individual file. These files must be moved around the network, and as you might imagine, transferring thousands of files in a multi-tenant network can take a very long time. Add a synchronous API to this problem, and we quickly get into a situation where the Policy Manager user interface (UI) can freeze until a back-end transfer operation times out. \r\n This is the problem we set out to solve by creating a brand-new activation method for cloudlets. The first cloudlet to receive this new superpower is Edge Redirector, but other cloudlets will follow in succession as we move further into 2021.…

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