In this video, Alex Chircop, Chief Product Architect at Akamai, discusses the company’s focus on merging its network advantages with cloud benefits to enhance edge-native applications. Chircop talks about Project Gecko (Generalized Edge Compute), which aims to extend cloud services to 100 new cities and 100 new edge locations, providing the full cloud experience all the way to the edge, allowing customers to run VMs, fully-fledged applications, and CPU-intensive workloads with extremely low latency.
Guest: Alex Chircop (LinkedIn)
Company: Akamai (Twitter)
Show: To The Point
This summary was written by Emily Nicholls.





