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Scaling in the Cloud with Joyent's Jason Hoffman

DevCentral Interview — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:52:37 GMT

Joe and Colin talk to Jason Hoffman, CTO of Joyent. In the call, they talk about

General overview of Joyent and how they provide a high-end on-demand infrastructure to their clients.
How Joyent achieves on-demand scaling and how they compare to Amazon and Google's cloud offerings.
How they have reached out to developers to make developing with their services free and easy.
His history with Ruby and how to build an application to scale - most failures occur at administrative scale - not tiered or siloed correctly. He compares Java, Ruby, and Erlang and talks about their DTrace probe offerings.
Colin gave Jason Goose Bumps.
LinkedIn's BumperSticker app is then discussed and how iRules helped with Facebook application caching causing 80% reduction in server processing.
How the app stack should be cache - app switch - cache - app - cache - data stores.
Jason proposed setting up a collection of iRules that every cloud provider should be using.
He talks about Joyent's iControl Ruby library with an agreement to open source it - woo hoo! He tops that off with a Ruby route to iRule translator.
The call finishes off with recipes and an invitation to Taco Tuesdays at Nick's Crispy Taco in San Francisco.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, BIG-IP, iRules, iControl, Joyent, Cloud Computing, Ruby on Rails, Acceleration, Jason Hoffman, Joe Pruitt, Colin Walker

Renny Shen at Storage Networking World

DevCentral Interview — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:27:31 GMT

Jeff and Joe grabbed F5 Marketing Manager Renny Shen at Storage Networking World to get his take on the conference as well as his thoughts on the storage virtualization market and how F5's products can help with the typical problems faced by those lucky enough to have to manage data storage (which means all of you). He went over some of the basics of file virtualization as well as the cost savings benefits that implementing a virtualization layer to your storage tier can provide. He also threw in some details on the upcoming FreedomFabric Network Manager.

SharePoint ARN

DevCentral Interview — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:08:49 GMT

Microsoft SharePoint continues to take off with more widespread deployments than even Microsoft expected. To assist with optimizing SharePoint deployments, F5 provides a F5/Microsoft Application Ready Network (ARN) solution. F5 DevCentral’s Jeff Browning interviews F5’s SharePoint experts including Jeff Bellamy, Ryan Korock, and Dayne Miller to better understand the Sharepoint ARN solution, how it works, the benefits customers should expect, how it’s tested, and more.

Jeremiah Grossman of WhiteHat Security

DevCentral Interview — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:08:06 GMT

The DevCentral team interviews Jeremiah Grossman, founder and CTO at WhiteHat Security. They talk about website vulnerability detection with the WhiteHat Sentinal service and how, through a joint partnership, customers of F5 and WhiteHat can integrate WhiteHat's Sentinal and F5's BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) to provide both world class detection as well as real time protection against security exploits.

What is PowerShell?

DevCentral Interview — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:02:56 GMT

Microsoft PowerShell – the new scripting language from Microsoft – has seen significant adoption and buzz over he past year. To help Microsoft-focused IT Pros access, monitor, and manage F5 products using existing skills, F5 provides some interesting Powershell CmdLets and resources under the “Powershell” DevCentral Labs project. For organizations embracing F5’s Application Ready Network (ARN) for Microsoft products, PowerShell offers a great way to augment deployments with custom integration and management. Jeff Browning and Joe Pruitt sit down to talk about PowerShell, what it is, how it works, and how F5 enables customers to use it with F5 products.

What is ARN?

DevCentral Interview — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:39:48 GMT

F5 DevCentral's Jeff Browning sits down to talk aobut F5's Application Ready Network (ARN) initiative with Karen Jester and Calvin Rowland. During this interview, they discuss what ARN really is, how it's tested, how actual customers utilize it, and get into the details on how ARN came to be.