Abstract
Comprising more than 61,000 servers located across nearly 1,000 networks in 70 countries worldwide, the Akamai platform delivers hundreds of billions of Internet interactions daily, helping thousands of enterprises boost the performance and reliability of their Internet applications. In this paper, we give an overview of the components and capabilities of this large-scale distributed computing platform, and offer some insight into its architecture, design principles, operation, and management.
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- Computer science
- Server
- The Internet
- Reliability (semiconductor)
- Architecture
- Distributed computing
- Scale (ratio)
- Computer security
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Industry, innovation and infrastructure
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