Akamai Technologies, Inc. has unveiled the Akamai App Platform, a ready-to-run solution that claims to facilitate deploying, managing, and scaling highly distributed applications.
“Over the past decade, developers have been forced to choose between two evils: Either accept complexity, vendor lock-in, and spiraling cloud costs if they build with hyperscaler solutions, or grapple with skills gaps, longer time to value, and perceived increased risk if they build on open-source solutions,” said Ari Weil, vice president of Product Marketing at Akamai.
“We’re giving them a better way by harnessing the power and potential of the open-source ecosystem to strike a balance between the ease of use of the one-size-fits-all hyperscale world and the flexibility and control afforded by open source,” added Weil.
Akamai App Platform
The platform is built on the cloud-native Kubernetes technology Otomi and claims to provide ready-to-run templates. It also aims to address common challenges in deploying, managing, and scaling Kubernetes clusters at scale.
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The Akamai App Platform claims to provide developers with ready-to-run, customizable templates that provide essential capabilities for running cloud-native applications on a Kubernetes cluster. It also provides a framework that seamlessly integrates preconfigured upstream open-source projects while simplifying their deployment, management, and scaling for production workloads.
The platform also includes a user-friendly self-service environment for engineering teams to build, deploy, secure, and maintain their applications. Additionally, it offers a catalog of Golden Path templates based on industry best practices and open-source tools across the cloud-native ecosystem, making the process even more comfortable and straightforward for the users.
