September 2009
53 posts
Web Application Security at the Edge is More... →
If one of the drivers for moving to cloud-based applications is reducing costs, you should think twice about the placement of application security solutions. There’s almost no way to avoid an…
DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 104 - Guru, Guy,... →
Welcome to the one hundred and fourth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the…
Turn Your Podcast Into A Interactive Live... →
The folks here on the DevCentral team have been producing a weekly podcast for a while now. Trying to keep our budget low, we opted to copy what some other podcasters were doing by…
Despite Rumors to the Contrary F5 Remains In the... →
We interrupt your regularly scheduled dose of geek for a brief but important message Every year a variety of application delivery vendors sit around, wringing their hands, waiting for Gartner to…
Our H1N1 Preparedness Plan →
On a couple occasions, I have have offered advice on how to deal with disasters and just yesterday I wrote about Mitigating risks. Today, I’m deviating slightly from 26 Short – make…
Infrastructure Integration: Metadata versus API →
Infrastructure 2.0 requires collaboration. Collaboration requires the ability to communicate. The ability to communicate requires integration. But how that integration will happen may shape the…
DevCentral Top5 09/25/2009 →
Side-projects and behind the scenes activities abound as the DevCentral team works towards the next goal on our plans for world domination, carefully sketched on Jeff’s whiteboard. I’m glad to…
F5 Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the... →
Premier industry analyst firm evaluates key vendors in the Application Delivery Controller market, based on ‘Completeness of Vision’ and ‘Ability to Execute’
Your Network is Not My Network →
Back in the day when I was actually allowed to write code for customers the pat answer to any code being returned from QA because of problems was a flat “but it works on my machine.” Alright,…
Reduce your Risk →
As I started this journey 13 topics ago, I mentioned that ‘security’ is really about managing risks and threats. Most security experts would agree that the only way to be 100% secure is to…
Load Balancing on the Inside →
Business critical internal processing systems often require high-availability and fault tolerance, too. Load balancing and application delivery is almost always associated with scaling out…
Audio White Paper - TMOS Redefining The Solution →
The TMOS architecture, a collection of real-time features and functions, purpose-built and designed as a full-proxy solution with the power and performance required in…
WILS: The Concise Guide to *-Load Balancing →
Understanding the various types of load balancing When someone says “load balancing” the immediate reaction is usually to think of pools of servers and applications being load balanced to provide…
Introducing Posh-Delicious - The PowerShell... →
For those of you who don’t know what Delicious.com is (yes it’s the same as del.icio.us), I’ll just borrow their overview from their getting started page: Delicious is a social…
Cloud Computing versus Cloud Data Centers →
Isolation of resources in “the cloud” is moving providers toward hosted data centers and away from shared resource computing. Do we need to go back to the future and re-examine mainframe computing…
Brought to you by the Letter L and the Number 7 →
Since I strayed a bit on #11 out of 26 Short Stories, I figured that this entry would be mostly a link-fest – about Layer 7. A picture is worth a thousand words don’t cha know. SANS just…
Audio White Paper - Acceleration 102: Asymmetric... →
Both asymmetric and symmetric acceleration technologies can deliver great benefit to your users. But how and where do you deploy them? You can download the hard copy…
Statistics Collection and Management Pack... →
We’ve had several folks ask about how the Management Pack scales and how to determine what kind of hardware is needed when monitoring large numbers of Big-IPs. This article will outline how to tune…
DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 103 - Cake and... →
Welcome to the one hundred and third edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the…
Does a Dynamic Infrastructure Need ARP for... →
There’s more than one way to address the rapid rate of change in infrastructure supporting a dynamic environment. We spend a lot of time talking about how software and systems and standards are…
If Load Balancers Are Dead Why Do We Keep Talking... →
Commoditized from solution to feature, from feature to function, load balancing is no longer a solution but rather a function of more advanced solutions that’s still an integral component for…
Keys to the Kingdom →
According to various history sites, the earliest known lock to be key operated was from Egypt, some 4000 years ago. It was wooden and actually used moveable pegs that fell into holes to secure…
AJAX and Network-Side Scripting →
AJAX enables the use of network-side scripting enabled application delivery solutions to offload client-side functionality and improve capacity and performance of dynamic (Web 2.0/AJAX)…
Create F5 Management Pack Rule Overrides with... →
With this article we’ll initiate a series of PowerShell automation topics focused on the F5 Management Pack and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.
1. Overview
In this blog I will…
WILS: Network Load Balancing versus Application... →
Are you load balancing servers or applications? Network traffic or application requests? If your strategy to application availability is network-based you might need a change in direction (up the…
Closing in on the iRules Contest Deadline.... →
Hey Community! Just a gentle nudge that we are still accepting entries for the iRules Contest through 5pm pacific on the 30th of September. Yes, that’s only 15 days from now! I see several …
The Cloud Metastructure Hubub →
How Infrastructure 2.0 might leverage publish-subscribe technology like PubSubHubub to enable portability of applications across clouds and data centers
Tower of Babel by…
IT Myths and Legends: Sharing Servers →
Sharing is core to a successful cloud implementation but not something every organization does well. How do you encourage business stakeholders to play well with others? In most…
Audio White Paper - Create A Smarter Storage... →
How building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest…
DevCentral Top5 09/11/2009 →
The extended DevCentral team has been hard at work this week, as always, fulfilling your geek needs and then some. As such, this Friday’s Top5 brings to you all types of DevCentral-y goodness….
The Threat Behind the Firewall →
I had a different name for this blog entry but just ‘Jump Drive’ is an awful blog title. They go by many names; jump drive, USB drive, flash drive, memory stick and a few others, but removable…
WILS: Automation versus Orchestration →
Infrastructure 2.0 is not just about automation, but rather is about the orchestration of processes, which are actually two different things: the former is little more than advanced scripting, the…
20 Lines or Less #29 →
What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That’s the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show…
DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 102 - The Chetan... →
Welcome to the one hundred and second edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the…
Create a Smarter Storage Strategy →
This paper explores why it is important to have deep insight into your file storage environment, and offers tips on how to develop a storage strategy that best meets your organization’s needs. It…
iRules Insight - HTTP Event Order →
I’m a visual learner. You know this about me. I’ve said as much in earlier posts (Me Caveman, Need Picture). So it should come as no surprise that I’ll be highlighting a picture here. A…
Log Files Do Not Improve Security →
Logs are for auditing, accountability, and tracking down offenders – not for providing real-time security A new law signed into effect in February 2009 requires that health care providers and…
F5 Networks to Host Washington Technology Industry... →
WTIA and F5 team up to help job seekers enhance tactics for securing employment; attendees will learn how to succeed in this challenging and evolving job market
Impact of Load Balancing on SOAPy and RESTful... →
A load balancing algorithm can make or break your application’s performance and availability It is a (wrong) belief that “users” of cloud computing and before that “users” of corporate data…
VMworld recap: F5-THE solution for migrating a... →
F5 Networks issued a press release announcing a new F5/VMware combined solution for Cloud Connectivity and Live Application Mobility. Why it’s significant? VMware, despite being the market…
ASM Layer 7 DoS And Brute Force Protection →
With the recent DoS attacks and the ever present ‘someone trying to break into the systems,’ this video shows how to enable Layer 7 DoS and Brute Force Protection on BIG-IP Application Security…
Dumpster Diving vs. The Bit Bucket →
Which is safer – a digital shopping cart or a metal shopping cart? Most (or many…some?) of us take great care to keep our personal Identity information safe. We make sure we send sensitive info…
Create And Secure Applications With BIG-IP v10 →
All new BIG-IP v10 LTM & ASM application templates into one video showing how to create an application Virtual Server and then protect it with ASM. It shows both the objects and policy…
If Your Users See an HTTP Error Code You’re... →
There is no reason in a modern web application for users to see a white error page Sightings of the Twitter “fail whale” are, these days, fewer and far between. That’s a good thing. What’s…
First American Improves Performance and Mobility... →
“F5 is providing two fairly large services—content delivery and disaster recovery—and we didn’t find that with any other company.” — Jake Seitz, Enterprise Architect, The First American…
DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 101 - The Team... →
Welcome to the one hundred and first edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the…
20 Lines or Less #28 →
What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That’s the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show…
How to Build a Cloud Without Using Virtualization →
Leveraging Java EE and dynamic infrastructure to enable a shared resource, on-demand scalable infrastructure – without server virtualization Many pundits and experts allude to architectures that…
Global Distributed Service in the Cloud with F5... →
Learn how F5 and VMware help you orchestrate and deliver access to services in the cloud.
Connecting to the Cloud with F5 BIG-IP Solutions... →
F5 and VMware partner to enable live application and storage migrations between data centers and clouds, over short or long distances.