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Oct 07, 2013
Personally, I prefer to use Apache in front of Tomcat because I am more familiar with how it behaves (F5 -> Apache -> Tomcat AJP connector).
Ultimately it all depends on your needs. F5 -> Tomcat HTTP connector should be perfectly fine for most use cases. A quick search suggests that either method should end up with similar results, but you should test, test, test!
What duration were the 20,000 calls made? It is possible that you may have hit a SSL TPS threshold.