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November 17, 2023
Azion CLI: Quickly Deploy Jamstack Applications at the Edge
November 10, 2023
Discover the tool that will enhance your operation at the edge, allowing you to build applications, test them in a local environment, and quickly deploy them on our platform.
Azion's New Templates Accelerate Edge Adoption and Optimization
November 3, 2023
Did you know that your edge-focused projects can be launched even faster? Azion's templates, designed to enhance the developer's experience (DX) with our platform, provide agility and efficiency to application development.
Building a Low-Code Application On Azion's Edge Computing Platform
October 31, 2023
By leveraging the low-code approach with Azion's tools, developers are able to focus more on valuable business logic development rather than writing extensive amounts of code.
Azion's Code Editor Integrates ChatGPT Code Assistant to Speed Up Application Development
October 23, 2023
In this blog post, we discuss how combining Azion Edge Function's new Code Editor with ChatGPT code assistance and a function deployment preview feature can enhance the developer experience on Azion's platform.
4 Templates You Should Know to Improve User Experience with Automation
October 20, 2023
Streamlining and automating processes, along with optimizing performance and enhancing user experience, are just a few of these solutions' benefits.
The Edge in Terraform: Discover Azion Terraform Provider
October 16, 2023
Did you know you can integrate various resources that operate on Azion's edge into Terraform? Our Terraform Provider makes it possible. Check it out!
New Real-Time Metrics Features Offer Enhanced Observability
October 3, 2023
Upgraded functionality will provide enhanced observability for applications, with powerful real-time visualization into performance, availability and security
Discover 3 Templates that Simplify and Enhance Your Use of WordPress and ChatGPT
September 28, 2023
In today's world, where innovation and efficiency drive the industry, technological tools to simplify our work are as powerful as the X-Men in the Marvel universe: astonishing, versatile, and capable of changing the way we interact with the world.
Benefits of Building Composable Applications on an Edge Computing Platform
August 1, 2023
Discover the benefits of building composable applications at the edge and how this powerful combination streamlines developers' work and accelerates business opportunities.
Simultaneous Multiport Support Makes Your Edge Migration Easier
June 15, 2023
New feature gives you more flexibility in the way your applications are delivered, and helps to avoid extra development costs.
Now It's Much Easier to Get a Let's Encrypt TLS Certificate at Azion
June 6, 2023
Do you find getting security certificates to protect your websites time-consuming and sometimes complicated? Now you can easily and quickly do it, with no bureaucracy and at no cost at Azion’s Edge Computing Platform—in a few minutes, you get a reliable and free TLS certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt.
Azion Announces Solution That Blocks Oversized Requests
May 29, 2023
Azion offers a new solution on its Marketplace to protect your origin and reduce the amount of data transferred: Limit Payload Size. With it, your application will be more secure and efficient.
New Azion Marketplace Solution Allows to Transfer Information in a Secure, Efficient Way
May 24, 2023
The new Process Request Data Into Headers feature, recently added to the Azion Marketplace, allows critical data to be transferred in the request headers, enabling a safer, more efficient request and response dynamics.
Learn How Azion Can Help You with E-Commerce UX Optimization
April 19, 2023
A bad user experience can lead to sales and reputation loss for your e-commerce. Learn how the features of Azion's Edge Computing Platform can help you solve this problem.
Tools for Improving the Developer Experience on the Azion Platform
April 3, 2023
In this blog, you will learn about the development tools supported by Azion's Edge Computing Platform and how they allow you to build and run modern applications for any device at the edge with the best developer experience.
Why Is Edge Computing a Perfect Use Case for Microservices and Composable Applications?
March 29, 2023
Microservices and composable applications are extremely necessary building blocks for edge computing driving new business models in today's hyper-connected landscape.
How to Mitigate OWASP Top 10 Risks with Azion's WAF
March 6, 2023
In this post about web application firewall (WAF), we list its ability to combat the OWASP Top 10 security risks as one of the major benefits (and requirements) of this type of solution. OWASP Top 10 is a project conducted by the OWASP® Foundation with the collaboration of security experts and web application developers used as a reference by security experts and companies around the world.
Open Standards for a Better Developer Experience at the Edge
March 1, 2023
Azion takes pride in adopting the best practices in the technology market. Therefore, one of our primary missions for 2023 is to spread the adoption and knowledge about open standards and their importance for an improved developer experience at the edge.
5 Benefits of Edge Computing for Banking Technology
February 27, 2023
In this article, you will discover how edge computing can help banks in this constant modernization, also making it easier for the developers working on companies in the banking industry. Check five major benefits this technological infrastructure offers the sector.
Five Cases of IT Transformation with Edge Computing
February 15, 2023
Edge computing is a key component for modernizing web applications and accelerating digital transformation. However, those who are not familiar with this technology often have doubts about how much it can contribute to businesses. Even managers who have small IT teams and budgets sometimes do not know if its implementation is financially viable.
What is Serverless?
December 6, 2022
Do you often come across the term “serverless”, but don't quite understand what it is or how it works? In this article, you'll find out the basics of this technology and what to consider when implementing it.
Alessandro Cauduro Explains Why Every Developer Should Learn How to Leverage Edge Computing
November 24, 2022
In this article, we talk about how edge is enabling the next wave of applications using the macro trends developers love with Alessandro Cauduro, Azion’s new Chief Developer Experience Officer (CDXO).
What Is Edge Computing?
November 22, 2022
Do you know nothing about edge computing and want to learn about this technology? Have you read about it but don't understand how it works? In this article, we describe it simply and tell you the essentials.
WebAssembly on the Azion Edge Computing Platform: Truly Embrace the Edge
November 3, 2022
WebAssembly (also known as WASM) is an assembly-like language that allows code written in compiled languages—such as C, C++, Go, Python, Rust, and many others—to run at near-native speed on the Web. WebAssembly provides some key features for web development.
Increase Your Business Agility and Innovate Faster Using Next.js on Azion's Edge Platform
August 29, 2022
We just added a new feature to our platform that will further increase your business agility and ensure that your team is able to innovate even faster: Next.js.
Control Access to Your Platform With Scheduled Blocking Function
August 17, 2022
Have you ever wanted to control access to your application so that users can only access it during a certain period of the day? Azion has a new feature that can help you solve this problem: the edge function Scheduled Blocking.
Protect Your Application From Session Theft With Azion
August 10, 2022
In this post, we present what a cookie tampering attack is and how Azion's Signed Cookies solution can be used to prevent this attack from running in your applications.
We're Improving Developer Experience With Our New Azion CLI
July 22, 2022
In our mission to revolutionize the digital world and drive the hyper-connected economy, we believe that the sky is no longer the limit. That's why we're announcing the new Azion CLI: our command-line interface that improves developer experience on our platform and further powers what you can do at the edge.
Taking Jamstack to the Edge with Azion
March 30, 2022
Jamstack is a modern approach to develop and deploy websites at scale. This approach decouples the frontend from the backend and databases. The frontend is prebuilt into highly optimized static pages and assets using a Markup language such as HTML. Being static, these assets can be deployed on an edge platform for faster delivery. The backend applications that generate dynamic content are usually accessed using APIs, making pages rich and personalized.
A Closer Look at Log4Shell and Azion’s Protections
January 5, 2022
Since the discovery of CVE-2021-44228 (also known as Log4Shell), Apache has released multiple patches to address vulnerabilities in its popular logging software Log4j. The speed with which this story has developed demonstrates how, even after a patching cycle, zero-day attacks pose a threat to security teams as cybercriminals are constantly searching for new attack vectors and workarounds for protections.
A Quick Guide to Securing Serverless Applications
October 26, 2021
Since its inception, the serverless model has revolutionized computing--but how has it changed security? Serverless computing platforms enable developers to build and run applications that are managed by the serverless provider, with automatic scaling and resources charged on a per-use basis. This means that the underlying infrastructure is not only provisioned and managed, but secured by the serverless provider, so developers don’t need to worry about some of the greatest security risks, such as known vulnerabilities in unpatched servers.
Simplifying and Accelerating Deliveries with Serverless Functions
September 29, 2021
By running Edge Functions we can easily write pieces of code that are crucial to your business, without needing to set up a whole server, security, and all those things we all are familiar with.
How JAMStack improved Azion's LCP performance
June 1, 2021
Here, we will talk about the results of small actions in the optimization of the number of used resources, leading to an expressively better load time of more than 900 pages under our domain.
When to Choose SSR or SSG: A Guide to Page Rendering
May 10, 2021
As more companies embrace digital initiatives, businesses must work hard to not only find an audience for their site, but keep users engaged and interested. However, competing for clicks is becoming increasingly challenging, leaving little room for poor performance in speed and SEO and furthering the importance of social media in driving traffic and gaining conversions. That’s why tools like static site generation (SSG) and server-side rendering (SSR) are gaining (or in the case of SSR, regaining) popularity as a way to optimize performance, SEO, social media sharing, and other business drivers.
How Azion started using JAMStack
May 3, 2021
With the exponential growth of Azion, we had to find a way to make these web content processes easier and make the monitoring of this scale possible.
Why Azion Chose the V8 Engine for Edge Functions
March 30, 2021
One of the key advantages of serverless is that much of the complexity of development is abstracted away, enabling developers to focus on what matters most: crafting the best possible functionality and user experience. However, from time to time, we at Azion like to share with our readers some of the techniques we use under the hood to deliver the best possible performance, security, cost-efficiency, and resource use. Foremost among these tools is Google’s V8 Engine. The V8 Engine is embedded in our core technology, Azion Cells, and used under the hood of our new serverless computing product, Edge Functions, which is now available with JavaScript support.
Best Practices for Serverless
February 9, 2021
In the last post in this series, we compared serverless and containers for modern applications, discussing many of the advantages of working with serverless. However, serverless is not without its challenges. In order to get the most out of serverless architecture, it is important to select the right serverless platform and adhere to best practices.