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Press Releases

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Akamai to Acquire Linode

Akamai To Acquire Linode to Provide Businesses with a Developer-friendly and Massively-distributed Platform to Build, Run and Secure Applications

Akamai Technologies, Inc. today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Linode, one of the easiest-to-use and most trusted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform providers.

Hyperscalers and Alternative Cloud Providers: The Advantages of a Hybrid Public Cloud Model

Nearly One-Third of Developers are Turning to Alternative Cloud Providers, New Research from SlashData Finds

Alternative cloud usage nearly doubles over the past four years, as multicloud becomes prevailing approach for cloud computing infrastructure.

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Linode Bests AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure in Customer Rankings

Linode bests AWS, GCP, and Azure in customer rankings from TrustRadius, as well as top scores on G2 and Peerspot.

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Media Coverage

Recent coverage of Linode in consumer and trade press, blogs, and elsewhere.

The ABCs of tech opportunities in the year ahead: AI, B2B, and CX

Looking Back at Top Cloud Computing Trends in 2022

Akamai’s Acquisition Of Linode Aims To Democratize The Cloud For Developers

Why are Akamai and Macrometa bringing the cloud and the edge together?

The Quest to Make Edge Computing a Reality with Andy Champagne

Last Week in AWS Podcast

With Linode, Akamai expands into edge cloud computing development

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Linode Blog

Perspectives, research, product updates, trends, best practices, and more.

Linode Security Digest

Linode Security Digest May 22-May 29, 2023

by The Linode Security Team

This week we discuss a Linux NetFilter use-after-free Kernel vulnerability, WordPress Core v6.2 XSS/CSRF/Directory Traversal vulnerabilities, and more.

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Maddie Presland

IaC Essentials: Using Terraform and Ansible

by Maddie Presland

Learn the key similarities and differences between the two Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, and why using both is best for managing infrastructure at a large scale.

Developer Tools

Docs Roundup.

Andy Stevens

Docs Roundup: Serverless Development, Nomad, Symlinks, Autoscaling, and More

by Andy Stevens

Discover new how-tos, guides, and resources recently added to our growing documentation library.

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Customer Stories

The latest innovations from the Linode cloud community highlighted in our Craft of Code series.

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Secure, Accessible GPU Instances Unleash Millions of Adventurers

A cost analysis of GPUs proved that Akamai cloud computing services were the right choice, and Hero Forge has been a customer since 2013.

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How Zeet Helps Build Multicloud Strategies that Leverage Clouds’ Strengths

Customers turn to Zeet to set up their infrastructure layer by using existing public cloud vendor relationships like what it has with Linode.

Containers (Kubernetes, Docker)

Rutledge Daugette from TechRaptor

Rutledge Daugette

Ravenous Success: Solid Infrastructure & Reliable Performance at the Right Price

TechRaptor’s compute instances run out of Linode’s Newark, NJ data center. The site’s tech stack includes Ubuntu, Drupal, and MariaDB.

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Events

DevWeek CloudX (Virtual)

August 22, 2023 - August 23, 2023

Akamai is proud to announce we will be at the DeveloperWeek CloudX conference this year! DeveloperWeek CloudX is the premiere international cloud computing conference, where 3,500+ cloud engineers & developers, IT managers, entrepreneurs, and innovators will converge to discover this year’s newest cloud computing innovations. DeveloperWeek Conferences already attract 2,000 – 4,000 attendees per event, […]

DevWeek CloudX (In-Person)

August 15, 2023 - August 16, 2023

Akamai is proud to announce we will be at the DeveloperWeek CloudX conference this year! DeveloperWeek CloudX is the premiere international cloud computing conference, where 3,500+ cloud engineers & developers, IT managers, entrepreneurs, and innovators will converge to discover this year’s newest cloud computing innovations. DeveloperWeek Conferences already attract 2,000 – 4,000 attendees per event, […]

Portability in the Cloud: Cloud-Native Architecture for SaaS Applications

Join Akamai Solutions Engineers for “Portability in the Cloud: Best Practices for Building SaaS-Based Applications.” This on-demand session covers cloud-native technologies and architectures for developing scalable and agile SaaS-based applications, and you will learn about the benefits of microservices, containers, serverless computing, and event-driven architecture, as well as the best practices for designing, implementing, and […]

Containers (Kubernetes, Docker)

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