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Akamai
GoProGoPro Extends Ion Across Web Performance
GoPro, a consumer discretionary organization in the United States, uses Ion from Akamai to support web performance for platform and web teams.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because edge delivery has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in web performance sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Ion is the governed place platform and web teams use for web performance |
Story
Inside GoPro, web performance used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in consumer discretionary groups working out of the United States. Platform and web teams needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
GoPro uses Ion from Akamai as the working layer for edge delivery. Akamai operates a large edge platform for content delivery, application security, and microsegmentation. The practical change is simple: web performance has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What GoPro gets from Akamai is a durable place to run web performance and a way for platform and web teams to see the same edge delivery at the same time.
