Austin Gil

CORE

Developer Advocate at Akamai

Company website: https://www.akamai.com/

Joined Jul 2021

https://austingil.com/

About

Hi, my name is Austin Gil. I'm a web developer from Portland, Oregon, and I help people (like you?) build better websites. Over the last ten years, I’ve built projects for award-winning agencies, innovative start-ups, government organizations, and more. Today, I create fun, educational content in the form of writing, open-source, videos, presentations, and workshops.

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The C̶a̶k̶e̶ User Location Is a Lie!!!

This post discusses the nuances surrounding location-based programming: various ways to access user location, how they can fail, and what to do about it.

August 2, 2024

· 5,863 Views · 2 Likes

I Deployed My Own Cute Lil’ Private Internet (aka VPC)

This post covers what I've learned about Akamai's VPC, how I deployed one with Terraform, and why it's good for security.

March 15, 2024

· 3,586 Views · 2 Likes

Advanced Architecture for AI Application (AKA AAAA!)

This post covers infrastructure improvement ideas for an existing AI application's architecture for better delivery, performance, and cost reduction.

February 15, 2024

· 4,821 Views · 1 Like

AI for Web Devs: Deploying Your AI App to Production

This post covers preparing our app for production, deploying it to a VPS, running it with a process manager, and using a reverse proxy with an SSL.

February 8, 2024

· 3,419 Views · 1 Like

AI for Web Devs: Addressing Bugs, Security, and Reliability

In this post, we'll walk through our existing AI application and address bugs, security, and reliability concerns for most apps and AI apps specifically.

January 31, 2024

· 4,763 Views · 1 Like

AI for Web Devs: AI Image Generation

In this post, we create a Dialog component with Qwik before I share my strategy for dealing with the nuances of AI image generation with OpenAI.

January 30, 2024

· 1,894 Views · 1 Like

AI for Web Devs: Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering lets you modify AI behavior without changing application code. This post covers tools and techniques for prompt engineering.

January 23, 2024

· 3,545 Views · 1 Like

AI for Web Devs: What Are Neural Networks, LLMs, & GPTs?

Good things to understand when building AI applications: artificial neural networks, LLMs, parameters, embeddings, GPTs, and hallucinations.

January 19, 2024

· 3,521 Views · 1 Like

AI for Web Devs: Faster Responses With HTTP Streaming

Adding HTTP streaming to AI applications can improve perceived performance. This post covers the server-side and client-side requirements.

January 16, 2024

· 3,843 Views · 1 Like

AI for Web Devs: Your First API Request to OpenAI

Learn how to make API requests to OpenAI with fetch and Qwik forms. Protect API keys with Qwik actions, and hide secrets with environment variables.

January 12, 2024

· 5,454 Views · 2 Likes

AI for Web Devs: Project Introduction and Setup

In this post, begin bootstrapping a web development project using Qwik and get things ready to incorporate AI tooling from OpenAI.

September 16, 2023

· 6,037 Views · 5 Likes

File Upload Security and Malware Protection

In this article, we implement several of the OWASP recommendations for file upload security. We also dive into malware scanning solutions.

May 25, 2023

· 4,701 Views · 3 Likes

CDNs: Speed Up Performance by Reducing Latency

In this article, learn what CDNs are, how they work, and why you need one. Additionally, follow a demo about how to connect Akamai CDN to Object Storage.

May 3, 2023

· 2,957 Views · 1 Like

Stream File Uploads to S3 Object Storage and Save Money

Learn how to upload files directly to S3-compatible Object Storage from your Node application to improve availability and reduce costs.

April 19, 2023

· 4,631 Views · 1 Like

File Uploads for the Web (3): File Uploads in Node and Nuxt

This is the third post in a series about uploading files for the web. This post covers receiving multipart/form-data in Node.js and saving files to disk.

March 30, 2023

· 3,917 Views · 2 Likes

File Uploads for the Web (2): Upload Files With JavaScript

This is the second article in a series about uploading files for the web. In this article, readers will use JavaScript to create the file upload request.

March 22, 2023

· 4,165 Views · 4 Likes

File Uploads for the Web (1): Uploading Files With HTML

This article is the first post in a series all about uploading files to the web. In this post, we cover the steps needed to upload files using only HTML.

March 13, 2023

· 39,737 Views · 2 Likes

Cancel Duplicate Fetch Requests in JavaScript Enhanced Forms

Avoid duplicate-request and race-condition when creating JavaScript-enhanced forms. Cancel previous fetch requests with AbortController.

February 7, 2023

· 2,951 Views · 1 Like

Promises, Thenables, and Lazy-Evaluation: What, Why, How

JavaScript Promises evaluate eagerly, but sometimes that's a problem. This post covers why and how to create custom lazy-evaluating promises.

January 23, 2023

· 4,039 Views · 2 Likes

How to Build Great HTML Form Controls

This article highlights all the considerations one should make when creating an HTML form control, from accessibility to functionality to user experience.

January 10, 2023

· 3,853 Views · 2 Likes

Conditional API Responses for JavaScript vs. HTML Forms

Learn how to build backend APIs that support progressive enhancement by detecting if a request was submitted with HTML forms or JavaScript.

January 4, 2023

· 3,456 Views · 1 Like

4 Ways CSS :Has() Can Make Your HTML Forms Even Better

Learn how the CSS :has() pseudo-class can improve HTML forms through validation hints, conditional content, fancier designs, and more.

December 19, 2022

· 3,818 Views · 3 Likes

PX or REM in CSS? Just Use REM

When choosing between pixels and rems in CSS, you should almost always use rems. It's a simple rule to follow. This article explains why.

December 6, 2022

· 3,173 Views · 1 Like

Automatically Deploy Apps to VPS With Git Triggers and Coolify

This is an introduction to Coolify, a project that can deploy custom applications based on Git events. It's similar to a self-hosted Netlify or Heroku.

November 22, 2022

· 8,069 Views · 1 Like

6 Steps To Improve HTML Images for Users and Developers

Learn how to make HTML images better for users with responsive sizes and modern formats without making your life as a developer much harder.

November 8, 2022

· 4,857 Views · 1 Like

Edit Someone Else’s Website: contenteditable and designMode

You may be familiar with using DevTools to modify a website's HTML. In this article and video, discover two more tools: contenteditable and designMode.

October 18, 2022

· 3,837 Views · 1 Like