DIY with Akamai: What to do when no one sells the servers you need? You build your own
If it looks like a hyperscaler, swims like a hyperscaler... Akamai Edge World Content delivery network Akamai runs a distributed computing platform consisting of 250,000 servers. At this scale, every bit of IO and every Watt of power consumption matter - so instead of buying hardware off the shelf, the company designs its own."