DevCentral
There are 27 entries for the tag DevCentral
Don takes a shot at expressing the wonder that is today's technology. With a hat tip to Louis CK. Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,RealIT,Real IT,Louis CK,Don Mac Vittie,ECC 7
posted @ Friday, April 17, 2009 5:01 PM | >
Jason discusses his background and experiences with Network Management projects and associated tools. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, DCC E7, Network Management, Jason Rahm
posted @ Friday, April 17, 2009 11:18 AM | >
In this video blog, Joe comments on the tech center results and how small optimizations can yeild big results.
Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, ViewState, ASP.Net, Acceleration, Joe Pruitt
posted @ Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:41 AM | >
In this video blog, Jason discusses how he load balances project tasks. His algorithm isn't nearly as clean or effective as Big-IP's are, however.
Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, Jason Rahm
posted @ Monday, April 06, 2009 5:02 AM | >
Jeff got a few minutes to sit down with Nojan, one of our engineers here at F5, and talk about Content Delivery Networks. They recapped what they are and how they work, as well as delving into some of the pros and cons and some other alternatives. Nojan's experience dealing with CDNs in the past is interesting and quite valuable to the team. Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,Real IT,DCC E6,Interview,Jeff...
posted @ Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:00 AM | >
Colin takes a minute to talk some more about testing and his anticipation for the results that Dan's team has gotten from the initial testing in the Tech center. He also discusses his experiences with application tuning and his expectations vs. his hopes for what kind of results they'll see from Web Accelerator in front of DevCentral. Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,Real IT,DCC E6,Colin Walker
posted @ Wednesday, April 01, 2009 7:15 AM | >
In this video blog, Jason shifts focus away from acceleration to the point of the project: creating a Chinese version of DevCentral.
Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, Jason Rahm
posted @ Monday, March 30, 2009 7:09 AM | >
In this interview, F5 Senior Product Manager for Acceleration Joe Hicks talks about best practices when designing Enterprise Content Delivery Networks (ECDNs). He covers problems with web application delivery for foreign countries. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, Interview, Acceleration, ECDN, CDN, Joe Hicks
posted @ Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:03 PM | >
After meeting with Dan Wright and learning how the stress testing application we were using in the Tech Center couldn't handle a special character in the login sequence of the DevCentral application, a unique solution is discovered that didn't require changes to the client application or the server code. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, DCC E5, Videoblogs, Joe Pruitt
posted @ Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:57 AM | >
In this video blog, Jason takes a minute to discuss inevitable roadblocks encountered during a project and the necessity of effective communication in overcoming them.
Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, Jason Rahm
posted @ Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:09 AM | >
In this video blog, Jason goes over his concerns about access and ownership to data when dealing with multiple departments within an organization. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, Jason Rahm
posted @ Friday, March 20, 2009 6:59 AM | >
The DevCentral China project is driving the investment in acceleration technologies but sharing technology across business units benefits the organization as a whole. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, DCC E4, Jason Rahm
posted @ Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:49 AM | >
In this video blog, Joe talks about the reality of running and deploying code into multiple locations. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, DCC E4, Joe Pruitt
posted @ Tuesday, March 17, 2009 8:15 AM | >
In this video blog, Jeff reflects on the role of localized sites with a focus on our rollout of DevCentral Japan. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, DCC E4, Jeff Browning
posted @ Monday, March 16, 2009 7:49 AM | >
Jason reflects on making use of GTM and geolocation and it's influence on topology and the tuning needed to make it all work. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, Jason Rahm
posted @ Friday, March 13, 2009 8:47 AM | >
Don comments on the ups and downs of working on big projects with geographically dispersed teams. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, DCC E3, Don Mac Vittie
posted @ Friday, March 13, 2009 8:28 AM | >
After getting an OK from Dan, Colin considers the steps needed to get all the pieces in place to start testing in the Tech Center. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, DCC E3, Colin Walker
posted @ Friday, March 13, 2009 8:22 AM | >
Jason talks about the decisions we've made regarding the framework of our acceleration solution. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, DCC E3, Jason Rahm
posted @ Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:23 AM | >
Dan Wright gives us a tour of F5's Tech Center. Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, Real IT, DCC E3, Dan Wright
posted @ Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:15 AM | >
Joe discusses the ins and outs of running simulated data centers in a virtual machine environment. Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,RealIT,Real IT,DCC E3,Virtualization,Joe Pruitt
posted @ Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:33 AM | >
After Colin's talk with Dawn, Jason ponders the acceleration design and talks about some concerns he sees that the team should be aware of.
Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Real IT, DCC E2, Jason Rahm
posted @ Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:28 AM | >
Joe reflects on his thoughts about the page load size for DevCentral and then gets into the effects of caching with regards to development testing.
Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, RealIT, DCC E3, VideoBlog, VideoBlogs, Caching, Joe Pruitt
posted @ Monday, March 09, 2009 9:25 AM | >
Paul gives us a rundown on his role as manager of the Network Engineering team and touches a bit on things that come up on a day to day basis for his team.
Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, DCC E2, Interview
posted @ Friday, March 06, 2009 11:43 AM | >
Don discusses the choices you have at the start of your projects. Encouraging everyone to look into the things that may have been shelved, he talks about how and why this part of projects is the most fun and the right time to get creative.
Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,DCC E2,VideoBlogs,Don MacVittie
posted @ Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:54 AM | >
Colin reflects on the fact that IT is already overworked and wants some reassurance that efforts put into this project aren't going to be wasted. He goes over testing and the importance of it in any deployment, and thinks he might know just the people to talk to to help get the team through that critical step. Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,DCC E2,VideoBlogs,Colin Walker
posted @ Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:27 AM | >
Jason gets a message from Jeff that DevCentral users in China are having performance issues and covers some of the reasons why he thinks it's happening.
Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, DCC E2, VideoBlog, Jason Rahm
posted @ Wednesday, March 04, 2009 11:06 AM | >
Joe Pruitt, our local application architect, whiteboards an overview of the DevCentral architecture from the ASP.NET applications down to the hardware and data centers they are running in.
Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,RealIT,Interview,DCC E2,Joe Pruitt
posted @ Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:13 PM | >