EdgeWorkers

Create functions at the edge on the largest distributed serverless network.

Whether you’re hosting your web servers on premises or want to go hybrid, Akamai offers the perfect solutions when you’re growing worldwide and need to ensure the best performance and availability.
Piotr Mynarski, CTO

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Accelerate your apps. Scale on demand. Just bring code.

Provide faster services and applications

Write and deploy custom code at the edge: no infrastructure headaches or new languages.

Create more personalized digital experiences

Dynamically route traffic, personalize responses & more, all at the edge with your code.

Scale with greater reliability and security

Easily scale code with the high capacity, reliability, and security of Akamai’s platform.

Focus on code, not infrastructure

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Closest proximity

World’s largest edge platform for serverless compute offers close proximity to end users.

Accessible data

Access data locally with Akamai EdgeKV — data at the edge, read at cache speed.

Faster cold starts

Execute code on any edge server on demand, with an extremely fast cold start time with V8 isolates.

Automatic scaling

Scale infrastructure, even through continued growth or massive traffic spikes.

Greater flexibility

Leverage one serverless compute platform across your entire hybrid or multi-cloud environment.

More savings

Pay for only what you use without having to provision resources for peak and scale.

Think Global, Compute Local - 5 Edge Computing Use Cases

Learn how Akamai enables you to bring your application out to the edge, deploying code on the world’s most distributed low-latency edge computing platform.

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Edge Compute

Edge compute means new capabilities for developers, IT, and businesses — find out how companies are using it, and more.

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Resources

Reference Architecture

Microservices

Migrate securely at a pace that makes the most sense for your business.

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Akamai EdgeWorkers GitHub repository

Access practical examples that can be used as a starting point for EdgeWorkers.

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Video

A Conversation with Queue-it Co-Founder and CEO Niels Sodemann

Hear from the CEO and co-founder of Queue-It in a discussion around the use cases and benefits the company has experienced while building on Akamai with EdgeWorkers.

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