Colin Walker
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Colin and Jason spend some time on the lonely stretch of days between Christmas and New Years discussing their 2011 DevCentral top 10. Prior to the podcast, there was no discussion regarding what that list should look like, and naturally they approached it from different angles. Colin took a holistic approach, focusing on significant things rather than content alone, whereas Jason honed in on tech tips. So there are two lists. The links to the items discussed on the podcast are below. Enjoy, and Happy New Year! DevCentral has some exciting changes in store for 2012. ...
Colin and DevCentral MVP Scott Prigge (smp) chat in the DevCentral booth at the F5 Summit in Chicago. Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,DevCentral MVP,F5 Summit,Colin Walker,Scott Prigge
Jeff and Colin sit down with F5 Product Management Manager Greg Gordon at the F5 Customer and Partner Summit in Chicago. The three discuss F5’s hardware platforms and how we make world class products. Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,Hardware,Jeff Browning,Colin Walker,Greg Gordon
Joe sat down with Jeff and Colin and took a few minutes to discuss their recent trip to visit our team in Tokyo, Japan. Listen in and hear about a recap of the meetings they were involved with – including an awesome event with the DevCentral User Group. You will also get a taste of what they dined on...
At Interop, Joe and Colin give a rundown on things they were presenting and some interesting things that came from the customers while they were manning the F5 whiteboard. Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,Interop,Geolocation,Sanitizing,GTM,iControl,iRules,Colin Walker,Joe Pruitt
While we were down at Interop in Las Vegas last week, Colin and Joe had a chance to give a couple of short 5-minute presentations at the F5 booth. We just happened to have the camera handy so we shot Colin discussing using Geolocation with iRules. Most folks understand the need for making Geolocation based decisions for GTM/DNS based decisions, but Colin gives a few ideas on how to use it once the users have been directed to a specific datacenter. Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,Interop,Geolocation,iRules,Colin Walker
This week Jason suggested a pretty awesome post regarding High Speed Logging (HSL). I thought I'd take this as an opportunity to briefly talk about HSL in iRules since it's a pretty cool feature that didn't get a ton of press when it went live. I then, of course, went on to talk about the post in particular and some of the questions being asked, and share a bit of Spark's ever awesome insight into iRules fu. ...
The launch of the LTM VE forum and the amazing discussions happening there seemed like an appropriate time to reinstate the post of the week. Each week we’ll pick a post to highlight, then discuss it, why it’s interesting, and any additions or extras we can throw in to add to the post. This week I’m trying to provide answers to the top 10 questions asked already about the LTM VE. The questions are, in no particular order: ...
In this week's Post of the Week take a quick look with Colin at how iRules can help handle your needs with SSL info in your HTTP headers, as well as a couple of things to keep in mind next time you want to implement this kind of iRule. For more information, check out the thread in the iRules forum. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Post of the Week, DCTVPOTW, iRules, SSL VPN, HTTP, Colin Walker
This week, Colin & Deb dig into an interesting scenario presented by poster dchenna requesting feedback on the best way to quickly and reliably swap out the active database server for certain operational & maintenance events. After reviewing the relative merits of a the suggestions and warnings offered by several respondents, it seems the best solution is an iControl call to modify the pool configuration when required. Here’s the post: F5 to load balance MS Sql Servers Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral Daily, Post of the...
In this week’s Post of the Week, Colin & Deb take a look at a question from poster shayne.rinne, and offer some suggestions for determining the source of additional latency when a second virtual server is added into the path between a client, a reverse proxy, and the origin server.. Here's the post: VIP to VIP communication Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Post of the Week, DCTVPOTW, Latency, Deb Allen, Colin Walker
This week’s Post of the Week is based on a post by sosa123, entitled F5 and RTCP, looking for guidance in configuring persistence to the same servers across 2 different virtual servers. Deb Allen and Colin Walker go through the steps required to support this commonly requested load balancing scenario. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, DCTVPOTW, Post of the Week, RTCP, Persistence, Load Balancing, Colin Walker, Deb Allen
