About the Author

Stephen Ludin is a Chief Architect for Akamai's Site Acceleration and Security group. He joined Akamai in 2002 and works out of Akamai's west-coast headquarter in San Mateo, California. His primary focus has been on projects related to the core proxy technology that is responsible for routing, accelerating, and securing Akamai's traffic. Most recently, as a technology leader in the Web Acceleration team, he has been leading the efforts behind Akamai's next generation acceleration platform and its security and fraud prevention technology stack. Ludin received his degree from the University of California at San Diego in Computer Music where his coding abilities were used in writing C programs to create experimental music. We are all grateful for his decision to use his technical and management skill in a more aesthetically pleasing realm of making the web a faster and safer realm for commerce and communications.Javier Garza is a multi-lingual technology evangelist who loves taking things apart, understanding how they work, and finding the best/most practical way of improving them. He started hacking basic-based computer games at the age of 9, and has been working with computers for the past 25 years in Spain, Germany, and the US (half that time at Akamai helping the largest Websites on the Internet run faster and more secure).