Less than a year since getting out of the CDN game, when it sold some 100 customer contracts to Akamai in August 2023, StackPath has officially shut up shop. The company—which has continued to offer edge compute, DNS, object storage, and monitoring services since quitting the CDN business—issued a statement to customers confirming that all StackPath products will be closed and assets liquidated. If the Akamai fire sale wasn’t evidence enough of StackPath’s sealed fate, then the writing was on the wall when the Dallas-based networking vendor sold its web application and API protection assets (WAAP) to rival edge delivery provider Gcore, in March 2024. While Akamai, still the world’s largest CDN slinger, has been successfully able to grow its…