chicago tech day jan 2015: hidden features

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More than Performance

Tips and Tricks for Managing Your Web Sites with Akamai

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• Self-service, self-guided configuration creation and changes

• Ability to define granular and complex logic to control how Akamai’s Edge

servers deliver web content

• Ability to create new configurations faster

• Insight into pre-defined configuration templates based on best practices

• Ability to deploy configuration changes quickly to the Akamai network

• More expertise and control in-house

Content Compression

Mobile Detect and Redirect

Dynamic Page Caching



Akamai examines the incoming cookies / headers and adds them to the cache

key. This creates multiple versions of the same page based on a known criteria.

The most common use case is to include EdgeScape Data and create

variations of the page based on adding Country to the cache key


Dynamic Page Caching – How it Works

Request for

PageCountry

Serve US Version

from Cache

Serve VE Version

from Cache

US

VE



• Additional Use Cases

• Enabling caching for anonymous user's and by-passing for logged-in users

• Enabling caching for users with an empty cart and by-passing for users with items in

their cart

• A combination of the two solutions above (Cache anonymous users with an empty

cart, but by-pass logged in users or any kind of user with an item in their cart)

A/B Testing

Serve Alternate Content


Serve Sorry Page

Visitor Prioritization


Problem Space: Unplanned Application Overload

Spikes that exceed origin capacity can cause:

● Lost transactions

● Abandoned customers/visitors

● Negative brand impact

Deploying additional infrastructure is not ideal

● Cost and complexity to deploy and manage

● Under utilized during normal traffic

Transactions that require your

application to process at origin:

● Shopping cart check-out

● Donation Page

● Service Subscription or

Application

● Form registration

● + more

ApplicationNot Responding


Check if application is free. If

yes, let normal user access

application.

Prioritized User*

Visitor

How Does It Work?

Normal Traffic Flow

● All users are routed to the application

in normal traffic flow

● Application can become overloaded

During Application Overload

● Prioritized users are directed to the

application

● During a traffic surge normal users

are directed to a waiting room while

Akamai checks to see if the

application becomes availableWaiting Room

Back-end

Application

In high demand

Back-end

Application

Prioritized User*

Visitor

Akamai Edge

Server

Akamai Edge

Server

Fig. 1: Normal Traffic

Fig. 2: Application Overload

* During traffic surges prioritized

users take precedence over

normal users

Akamai Edge

Server

Akamai Edge

Server


Visitor Prioritization


VP Policy

Policies contain

rules which indicate

under which

circumstances

should you apply a

given probability %.

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chicago tech day jan 2015: hidden features

Technology

akamai network

redirect module

cache anonymous users

usersenabling caching

redirect behaviors

web content ability

changes ability

configuration changes