What’s New for Developers: February 2023
Our February developer update is here! This month, we’re excited to share EdgeWorkers updates, Terraform Provider v3.3.0, an on-demand series on Terraforming Kubernetes, and information on how to get access to Akamai Connected Cloud betas. Read on to learn more about these and other helpful resources.
What we’re highlighting in this issue
Developer releases: tools and resources
Learn about the most recent EdgeWorkers updates
Read about the two new Postman collections
View the release notes for Terraform Provider v3.3.0
Watch an on-demand series on Terraforming Kubernetes on Akamai Connected Cloud
Visit our new Akamai Developer LinkedIn page
Latest articles and videos
Watch a series on building a Django web app from scratch
Watch our new Learn Web Dev series
Community highlights
Find out how to take Akamai's developer survey to enter a raffle
Discover how to sign up for betas
Developer releases: tools and resources
EdgeWorkers
Updated userLocation Request and EdgeWorkers Code Profiler
You can now use multiple User Location Object properties to specify the geographic location of a request, including area codes, latitude and longitude, time zone, and more.
The EdgeWorker Code Profiler now supports the IntelliJ plugin. Our docs walk you through using the IntelliJ plugin to run the profiler in EdgeWorkers.
➡️ Read the docs: https://techdocs.akamai.com/edgeworkers/docs/edgeworkers-code-profiler
Improved built-in reports
We've updated EdgeWorkers built-in reports to provide more information to help you optimize the performance and stability of your EdgeWorkers functions. You can use the EdgeWorkers Management application or the API to view these reports.
➡️ Read more: https://techdocs.akamai.com/edgeworkers/docs/manage-report-data
Increased resource limits for EdgeWorkers yield big results
Late last year, Akamai launched a batch of resource limit increases for the EdgeWorkers platform that dramatically reduced errors resulting from resource limit constraints.
➡️ Read about the impact: https://www.akamai.com/blog/developers/resource-limit-increases-for-edgeworkers-yield-big-results
Enhanced onOriginResponse event handler
Thanks to a recent event handler update, you can now use onOriginResponse and onOriginRequest to dynamically build a response from your JavaScript code using the respondWith method.
➡️ Read the release notes: https://techdocs.akamai.com/edgeworkers/changelog/jan-2023-onorigin-suppport-respondwith
New Postman collection betas
The Edge Hostnames API Postman collection and Fast Purge API v3 collection are now available in beta! Try the API, build workflows, and stay on top of development changes.
➡️ Read more about Edge Hostnames API: https://techdocs.akamai.com/edge-hostnames/changelog/jan-2-2023-postman-collection-available
➡️ Read more about Fast Purge API v3: https://techdocs.akamai.com/purge-cache/changelog/jan-2-2023-postman-collection-available
Terraform Provider v3.3.0
Terraform Provider v3.3.0 includes support for Go 1.18, a new Property Manager API data source for property activation, updates to the Certificate Provisioning System, and bug fixes.
➡️ Read the release notes: https://github.com/akamai/terraform-provider-akamai/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#330-february-2-2023
Terraforming Kubernetes
We launched a new on-demand video series on terraforming Kubernetes. Justin Mitchel, founder of Coding for Entrepreneurs walks you through the whole process, from installing Terraform to mapping a custom domain.
➡️ Watch a preview here: https://youtu.be/d-l-4nVuu10
➡️ Register here: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/4079794/D343F9105D5D08A56BE340ED833F6681
Akamai Developer LinkedIn showcase page launch
We launched our new Akamai Developer LinkedIn page. This space gives you insight into developer news, programs, and professional development opportunities.
➡️ Follow here: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/akamai-dev
Latest articles and videos
Django WebApp from scratch
We've launched a new six-part tutorial series presented by @CodeWithTomi on building and deploying a Django app. The series will take you from setting up the environment to finishing a Django dictionary app.
➡️ Watch the series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTnRtjQN5ieY6aPT8Ybwi7HMNJJswbX7n
Learn Web Dev series
In his new video series, Senior Developer Advocate Austin Gil helps you improve your web development skills by teaching you when to use CSS pixels and when to use rem, how to create lazy evaluating promises, and how to avoid duplicate requests.
➡️ Watch the series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDlttLRccCk5dmPZaogLtP5WHwb7K6nAa
Community highlights
Take Akamai's developer survey
Do you use Akamai APIs, CLIs, SDKs, or Terraform to work with Akamai products? If so, we’d love to learn about your experiences with Akamai, as well as your wants and needs for the tools you use.
The survey takes about 12 minutes to complete and gives you the opportunity to provide feedback that we’ll pass on to our product teams. To show our appreciation, everyone who completes the survey will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a $500 grand prize, one of three $100 prizes, or one of four $50 prizes.
➡️ Take the survey here: https://akamaisurveys.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_72LybgOfSICt7Se
Betas
We’re introducing new products in 2023 and need your feedback. Join our beta community to get early access and test new Akamai Connected Cloud products before they hit the market.
➡️ Sign up here: https://lin0.de/XCmG2w
And that’s a wrap!
Do you have an article, a tool, code, or something else that you’ve created that you would like to share? Contact us at devrel@akamai.com, so we can present it to our developer community!
