gRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call) is a high‑performance, open‑source RPC framework designed for efficient communication between services. It uses Protocol Buffers (protobuf) as its interface definition language and serialization format. Unlike traditional REST APIs that rely on text‑based JSON or XML, protobuf encodes messages into a compact binary format, reducing the payload size and improving performance.
The number of IPv4 CIDR blocks supported for use with this feature has changed.
Edge IP Binding lets you deliver traffic from a small, static set of IP addresses in a scalable manner. Among other things, it lets you incorporate zero-rated billing, so you can allow specific traffic at no cost to end users.
Client Hints is an effort by Google to replace the legacy User-Agent HTTP header. Rather than sending all information regarding the client in a single source, the host the client is accessing needs to request individual "client hints" information from the client's user agent (a browser).
Limited Availability
You can now include the HTTP/3 behavior in your API Acceleration property to support secure HTTP/3 connections between a requesting media player and the Akamai edge.
The "Breadcrumbs" feature looks to improve real-time visibility of performance and error conditions for content delivery.
The Enhanced Proxy Detection (EPD) with GeoGuard feature is now available. You can add it as a behavior to your API Acceleration property configuration in Property Manager.
We've redesigned the documentation experience for API Acceleration to make it easier for you to find the guides and resources you need. Everything is now in one place. Visit the Welcome page for a toolkit of API Acceleration resources.
