In this segment, Ari Weil, VP of Product Marketing at Akamai, discusses key factors influencing costs, including proprietary services. In contrast, leveraging open-source projects from the CNCF empowers developers to work faster and more efficiently, reduces costs, and eliminates vendor lock-in. Akamai’s App Platform, built on open-source Kubernetes and CNCF projects, offers a flexible alternative. It enables faster deployment times and seamless workload migration across clouds.

The platform comprises four components: two are open-source and Apache-licensed, while the other two are proprietary to Akamai. These proprietary components enhance deployment capabilities on Akamai’s platform without being critical to its core functionality.

Guest: Ari Weil (LinkedIn)
Companies: Akamai 
Show: To The Point

This summary was written by Emily Nicholls.