What’s New for Developers: September 2022
September was another exciting month for the Akamai developer community. We saw great participation in our voxel art contest, we updated the EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV demo site, and developers tested the beta version of the Test Center CLI. Read on for details and more highlights.
What we’re highlighting in this issue:
Developer releases: tools and resources
Learn more about Terraform Provider v2.3.0
Try out the redesigned EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV demo site
Experiment with the beta Test Center CLI
Meet the new Linode Developer Advocate
Latest articles and videos
Find out the answers to some of the top Kubernetes questions
Discover some of the highlights of SCaLE 19x
Read about how to manage Akamai resources using the CDK for Terraform
Watch fresh developer videos
Community highlights
See who won the voxel art contest and read about the next Ludum Dare game jam
Developer releases: tools and resources
Updates to Terraform Provider v2.3.0
The new version of Akamai Terraform Provider (v2.3.0) contains enhancements and bug fixes. You can now configure notifications to be sent via email and get data from two new sources.
➡️ See all the updates: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/akamai/akamai/latest/docs
➡️ Download Terraform Provider: https://github.com/akamai/terraform-provider-akamai/releases/tag/v2.3.0
Redesigned EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV demo site
The updated EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV demo site enables developers to build web applications closer to end users. It is newly designed to give users a seamless experience. Now, you can use the demo site to learn how to implement Edge Compute into a site or web application. You’ll find common use cases, code snippets, and live examples to help you explore how you can use EdgeWorkers on your site or app.
➡️ Try it: https://www.edgecompute.live/
Test Center CLI (beta)
Test Center CLI is now in beta! You can use Test Center to verify configuration changes on your web property. And you can easily implement this CLI into your testing protocol to increase your confidence in the safety and accuracy of your configuration changes.
➡️ Test it: https://github.com/akamai/cli-test-center
Meet Talia, the new Linode Developer Advocate
We’re excited to announce that Talia Nassi, our new Linode Developer Advocate, has joined the Developer Advocacy team!
Learn more about Talia:
I started out my career in test engineering. One day, I gave a tech talk internally to my team about a project I was working on, and someone suggested that I submit that talk to a testing conference. After speaking at that first testing conference, I was approached by several conference organizers globally to present at their events. My passion for developer advocacy started with a foundation in engineering that led to teaching other developers about something useful. What excites me most about working with Akamai and Linode is that I’m starting with the team at the beginning of the acquisition, so the opportunity for impact is enormous. I’ll have the ability to create content and better the developer experience from the start of the integration. Fun fact — I’m a triplet!”
Keep an eye on our blog site for new content from Talia focusing on Linode and Akamai.
➡️ Follow Talia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/talia_nassi
Latest articles and videos
Top Kubernetes questions answered
Linode Product Marketing Manager Justin Cobbett wrote an article answering some of the top Kubernetes questions that he’s encountered over the past seven years, such as what it takes to get started using Kubernetes and how to improve your experience.
➡️ Read it: https://www.linode.com/blog/kubernetes/top-kubernetes-questions-answered/
What you missed at SCaLE 19x
Gardiner Bryant shared his experience attending SCaLE 19x, the 19th annual Southern California Linux Expo, with Linode. Read about what equipment he brought to conduct interviews, watch the interviews, and check out his event wrap-up video with Linode Developer Advocate Jay LaCroix to learn about some of the expo highlights.
➡️ Read the article and watch the videos: https://www.linode.com/blog/open-source/what-you-missed-at-scale-19x/
Build on Akamai with Linode
Solution Engineer Jonathan Carvalho provides an overview of how to use Akamai with Linode cloud computing services to deploy a website.
➡️ Read the article and watch the videos: https://www.jonathangoc.com/articles/build-on-akamai-linode/
How to manage Akamai resources using the CDK for Terraform (TypeScript)
Developer Champion Deepak Jha walks through how to manage Akamai resources using the Cloud Development Kit for Terraform.
➡️ Read the article: https://deepakjd2004.medium.com/how-to-manage-akamai-resources-using-cdk-for-terraform-typescript-9d8d647a88f8
Recent Developer’s Edge videos
In one of our most recent Developer’s Edge episodes, SJ Morris from HubSpot talks to Chuck Freedman about how she’s successfully enabled developers to connect with one another and how she measures the health and value of community.
➡️ Watch more of season 3: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDlttLRccCk5zj0NLrd8-dDO1pHqoDPFB
New Web Dev Office Hours
Senior Developer Advocate Austin Gil has shared more useful tips for web developers in his weekly Web Dev Office Hours series. Learn how to use HTML on your website to allow users to share visual content from their camera.
➡️ Watch the rest of the series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDlttLRccCk6aYAy9mIaNwCo6Rgahxb8B
New series: build a pet database
Austin has also started a new video series to show how to create a database with Remix, Prisma, and Postgres. Learn more about databases and try out his example in the video.
➡️ Watch more of the series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTnRtjQN5ieYu9SdwLvzKYFVtfqySY7FT
Community highlights
Ludum Dare 51
Ludum Dare is celebrating 20 years of game jams! We kicked off August with a voxel art contest to celebrate our love for gaming and saw some amazing entries.
Now, we’re excited that Ludum Dare 51 is right around the corner! Akamai is proud to sponsor Ludum Dare this year to show our appreciation for the gaming community. We help serve so many incredible games over Akamai’s network, and we’re thrilled to see the other side of gaming and actually play the games people create!
Enter Ludum Dare’s 51st game jam, coming September 30 – October 2.
➡️ Learn more about the event: https://ldjam.com/
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 share it with our developer community!
