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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

The Future of the Desktop

DevCentral Interview — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:03:37 GMT

Deb Allen and Colin Walker host a roundtable discussion with Technical Marketing team members Alan Murphy, Lori MacVittie, and Ken Salchow. They explore the benefits and challenges of VDI (Virtual Desktop infrastructure), including how LTM can be an integral part of any VDI offering today, and end with a lively discussion of what the future of the virtual desktop and application virtualization might hold.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Virtualization, Virtual Desktop, VDI, LTM, BIG-IP

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 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.