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CEO @fermyontech building the next wave of cloud. Creator of @Helmpack & Children's Guide to Kubernetes. ex-@deislabs/@microsoft. @technosophos@techhub.social
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What to Do When Your Competitors Are Scraping Your Prices

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By Matt Butcher
| akamai.com
Traditional IP blocking alerts scrapers, causing an endless escalating cycle that risks blocking real shoppers and partners. Today, AI bots account for more than half of all web traffic, hitting ecommerce sites to hijack pricing and product catalogs. By combining Akamai Bot Manager with edge native Akamai Functions, you can classify inbound requests right at the edge.
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Your Website Now Has Two Audiences: Humans and AI

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By Matt Butcher
| akamai.com
Many websites are built using a client-side rendered JavaScript framework meant to serve humans. When queried, the server sends back a skeleton: a nearly empty HTML document plus script tags. A browser downloads those scripts and executes them. Then, the browser builds the page, fetches the product data, and writes the prices and descriptions into the document. The full content of the page only appears after the client-side code runs.
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Solve Multi-CDN Entitlement Drift with Edge Functions Without Losing Viewers

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By Matt Butcher
| akamai.com
Mismatched token validation and revocation policies across multiple CDN endpoints generate security gaps and subscriber lockouts. Running validation logic inside globally distributed WebAssembly (Wasm) functions provides a single, high-performance source of truth closer to users. Moving authorization rules to Akamai Functions integrates real-time bot management, AI-scoring, and state management in a single low-latency pass. Most major streaming and media platforms run multi-CDN architectures.
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