Options, Options. A Geek Kid Has Them.

Fair warning, my Friday posts are lighter, and will continue to be as long as I think I’m funny. If you’re here for work, move along, nothing to see here. When you’re a child of a geek family, if you show signs of interest in technology the jokes start going around about job offers. Lori and I’s mothers both programmed – mine with punch cards, hers in COBOL – we are both programmer/network/gaming geeks, so of course our kids get “job offers”. At 12, Korey was mastering Visual Basic, and we were meeting with Novell. Someone from Novell...

CMP - One way to crack the multi-core challenge.

We at F5 are not unfamiliar with the problems presented by multi-processing. We also have development that must take advantage of both multiple cores and multiple CPUs. Our development team tackled this problem a while back, and is continuing to add improvements to how our system handles multi-processing. So I thought I'd take a break from talking about how others are tackling the problem as it relates to your development environment, and offer you a bit of an overview and a document that offers you some background on the problem. Our own Kenneth Salchow, Manager of Product Management (is that...