iControl

TRUE Application Performance with Symphoniq's Joe Hsy

DevCentral Interview — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:20:54 GMT

In this DevCentral interview, Joe talks to Joe Hsy, VP of Technology at Symphoniq. In the call Joe and Joe discuss:

A crash coarse on the origins of Symphoniq.
The TRUE (The Real end User Experience) Platform for for enabling user based application performance monitoring.
Some of the technical details behind how they monitor from the browser.
Issues and hurdles around server based solutions.
How Symphoniq learned about iControl and iRules and their subsequent road to integration of a completely transparent monitoring system delivered to the browser.
The ease of development with the .Net platform in integrating iControl functionality into TrueView.
The various flavors of the TrueView product were discussed including the newly announced ADC Edition.
The call finishes up with information on how to get your hands on your own evaluation copy of TrueView.

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,Symphoniq,TrueView,iRules,iControl,ADC,Joe Pruitt,Joe Hsy

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.

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

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

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.