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Container systems offer flexibility and portability - F5 offers high power application delivery services. Good job they are going to work together well From some tinkerer like me who loves to be able to create a working webserver with a single command and have it run anywhere, to serious compute projects using Docker integrated with tools like...
The concept of Application programming interfaces (APIs) has been around for a while. According to CSC Distinguished Engineer & Chief Product Architect (and bass player) Martin Bartlett, 'The concept of an API pre-dates even the advent...
F5's BIG-IP 12.1 revamps Central Policy Manager and simplifies implementing and maintaining local traffic policies. See how you can easily add performance-minded traffic manipulation without the need for iRules.
As I mentioned in the previous post, this series, (“How I Did It”), we’ll take a customer request/challenge and implement a solution. So, here’s the request: “Can I deploy multiple applications behind the same F5 BIG-IP, (or BIG-IP...
Rate Pacing is a TCP Profile Option that reduces packet loss and is worth turning on.
Local traffic policies are a simple alternative to iRules, offering administrators quick and easy conditional rules that don't create traffic bottlenecks that larger and more complex iRules can sometimes lead cause. DevCentral's Chase Abbot gives a brief introduction to local traffic policies and why you may want to use them over iRules.
Whether it is upgrading the firmware on a switch, the OS on a server, an important business application or the software on a BIG-IP, performing upgrades is something that makes almost all IT Admins and Network Engineers nervous. We’ve learned from...
For the month of June, DevCentral is highlighting our Programmability Month and Codeshare Challenge. A fantastic opportunity to catch up on the power of programmability and learn how the BIG-IP platform can transform your infrastructure with a few...
The following is a guide on how to monitor your service/microservices using Postman, curl, and Python. BIG-IP enables you to monitor your applications health by creating monitors that emulate your end-user clients. When creating a monitor for API...
Have you ever been in the middle of a file transfer via FTP and the connection breaks and you have to go back and re-download the entire file? Frustrating, isn't it? The BIG-IP offers the capability of connection mirroring... Related Resources: Links...
On the side of the road in northern Missouri just north of Mark Twain’s stomping grounds, there is a slice of hillside removed just to the side of the highway. In Arkansas, there’s a nondescript field tucked away in a state park. Short...
Sometimes people ask to visit places that they have no business visiting. And, sometimes that craziness must be stopped. Did you know you can load up an iRule and redirect DNS traffic based on the requested domain name? Did you...
A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was on a journey to getting properly trained and reacquainted with the more technical nuances of F5 solutions with the goal of achieving F5 Professional Certification sometime this year. In fact, most of F5’s...
What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That's the question we like to ask from, for, and of (feel free to insert your favorite preposition here) the DevCentral community, and every time we do, we go looking to find cool new...
Understanding iApps iApps are powerful tools. Used by roughly one third of all F5 customers, they perform input validation and apply complex business logic for configuring a wide variety of applications. They hide complexity,...
Scaling things seems like such a simple task, doesn’t it? Open a new checkout line. Call a new teller to the front. Hire another person. But under the covers in technology land, where networking standards rule the roost, it really isn’t as...
Back in October, my son’s robotics team said “Hey! You work for a software company, can you build us an application that will help us with scouting and competitions?” Foolishly, ego stepped in before a careful outsourced review of my existing...
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