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Press Releases

The latest announcements from the cloud developers trust the most.

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.

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

Kubernetes Isn’t Done Yet

Container Journal

Linode Brings Pentesting To DevSecOps With Kali Linux

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Linode Blog

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

Three-Tiered Architecture uses a Data, Application, and Presentation Tier

Justin Cobbett

Use a VLAN or VPC to Secure Your App with Three-Tiered Architecture

Nov 15, 2022 by Justin Cobbett

Three-tiered architecture with a VLAN or VPC uses network isolation to build reliable, secure, and scalable applications.

Linode Security Digest

Linode Security Digest October 30 – November 6, 2022

Nov 4, 2022 by The Linode Security Team

In this week’s digest, we discuss an OpenSSL version 3.0.0 security advisory, a Github repojacking attack, and more.

Billy Thompson

Deploy a Cloud-Based Electronic Document Management System

Nov 2, 2022 by Billy Thompson

Our reference architecture demonstrates a cloud EDMS using open source tools including PostgreSQL, Mayan, and Linode Object Storage.

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Awards

2022 Stevie Awards - Linode

Linode Adds New Customer Service Accolades with 2022 Stevie® Award Wins

Extends early 2022 customer service recognition with Stevie Awards for ‘Best Customer Engagement Initiative’ and ‘Customer Service Department of the Year.'

CRN Recognizes Alternative Cloud Provider Linode as a Cloud 100 Company for 2022

List spotlights tech suppliers for their commitment to channel partners as well as their demonstrated innovation in cloud-based technology development.

Downtown Philadelphia

Linode Ranked #14 on List of Philadelphia Tech Employers

The Philadelphia Business Journal ranked Linode as the 14th largest technology employer by number of employees in the Philadelphia region. Want to work with us? Check out the open positions on our career page.

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Customer Stories

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

Ankit Kumar

Making Instruction Easier for YouTube Learners

Ankit Kumar was a grand prize winner of the Hashnode “Build with Linode” hackathon with his project, YTClass.

Jonathan Oliver - Smarty

Jonathan Oliver

Address Verification the Smart(y) Way

Running on Linode, Smarty processes millions of requests per second, providing location data for companies like Microsoft, DHL, and others.

Aashish Panthi

From an Idea to Solving a Consumer Problem

Aashish Panthi was a winner of Hashnode’s “Build with Linode” hackathon. Lootle is a web app that lets users keep track of the price of products.

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Events

Coffee & Cloud – An Introduction to Linode for Partners

November 30, 2022

Are you a Managed Service Provider and new to Linode? Perhaps you’ve worked with us for a while but would find a refresher useful? Grab a coffee and join us for this 30-minute relaxed and interactive introductory session. Learn who we are, what we do, and how using Linode can help grow your MSP business. […]

Partner Network

CompTIA EMEA Member & Partner Conference 2022

etc.venues, 133 Houndstitch, London, UK October 31, 2022 - November 1, 2022

We’re absolutely thrilled to announce you’ll find us with a booth at this year’s CompTIA’s EMEACon event in central London. Join fellow tech industry leaders at the CompTIA EMEA Member and Partner Conference for high-quality education sessions focused on two tracks: unlocking talent potential and enabling technology success. While CompTIA might be best known for […]

Partner Network

WebSummit Lisbon 2022

Lisbon, Portugal, EU November 1, 2022 - November 4, 2022

Linode is excited to be at Web Summit Lisbon 202 for the first time in-person! Join us at this premiere tech conference!

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