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Benefits for Edgecast CDN Customers – Edgio Applications v7

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Upgrade to Edgio Applications v7 and Unlock Powerful New Features

Are you an existing Edgecast CDN user looking to elevate your application performance and user experience? Look no further than Edgio Applications v7! This latest iteration seamlessly integrates Edgecast CDN’s trusted capabilities with exciting new features designed to empower users and deliver exceptional user experiences.

New in v7:

  • Fast Intuitive UI: The new intuitive interface makes it quick and easy to control caching, security, and other CDN settings.
    • Property-based configuration with unlimited environments maps to your workflows and allows you to integrate the CDN with your software development life cycle.
    • Versioning allows you to track the changes deployed and easily roll back
    • AI Rules assistant lets you specify rules in natural language
  • CDN-as-code: leverage the powerful CDN-as-code approach for programmatic control using EdgeJS. This method integrates seamlessly with your existing CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated CDN configuration deployments.
  • Predictive Prefetch: Intelligently download resources directly into the browser based on user behavior and browsing patterns with Edgio’s innovative Predictive Prefetch, minimizing perceived latency and delivering a smoother user experience.
  • Headless & Composable App Hosting: Edgio Applications v7 streamlines the deployment and management of apps built with popular front-end frameworks like React, Vue, and Next.js with Edgio Sites.
    • Streamlined Deployments: Simplify releases with atomic front-end, backend, and CDN configuration deployments. This ensures that your entire application update is applied consistently across all edge locations, eliminating the risk of inconsistencies and partial deployments.
    • Server-Side Rendering (SSR): Render pages using our serverless cloud functions, ensuring faster initial page loads and SEO.
  • Experimentation: Conduct A/B testing and gradually roll out new features with Edgio Experimentation’s traffic-splitting capabilities. This allows you to route a specific percentage of users to different versions of your application, enabling you to measure the impact of changes and optimize your application for better conversions and user engagement.
  • Enhanced Debugging: Gain deeper insights into your application’s behavior with the ability to debug headers and view triggered list rules. You can inspect request and response headers to identify potential issues and diagnose configuration problems. Additionally, view a detailed list of rules triggered for a specific request, allowing you to understand how your rules affect your application’s behavior.
  • Real-time User Monitoring (RUM): Gain real-time insights into user behavior and application performance with Edgio RUM’s comprehensive user monitoring capabilities, allowing you to visualize key metrics like Core Web Vitals, page load times, and error rates. This empowers you to identify and address performance bottlenecks and proactively ensure a seamless user experience.
  • Command-Line Interface (CLI): Manage your Edgio Applications resources efficiently using the powerful command-line interface. The CLI allows you to automate tasks such as creating applications, deploying code, and managing configurations, streamlining your development workflow and integrating seamlessly with your existing tools.
  • API Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access with robust API security features. Edgio Applications v7 offers features like API key authentication, rate limiting, and IP filtering to control access to your APIs and prevent malicious attacks.
  • Integrated TLS Certificates: Our next-generation platform offers seamless integration with Lets Encrypt for fully automated auto-renewing certificates
  • Edge Functions: Edgio Applications v7 edge functions, allows you to run code on the edge network to process data, interact with databases, and perform other tasks closer to your users. This further reduces latency and improves application responsiveness.

As you can see, this latest version introduces exciting features that enhance performance, security, flexibility, and user experience. And we’re continuously releasing new features and functionality to empower users to accelerate and easily secure modern web applications.

To get access, please sign up at edgio.app, and contact your account manager to upgrade.