13 Aug
The IT industry’s version of Lindsay Lohan, The SCO Group, was dealt a potentially mortal blow on Friday (which is covered just about everywhere). Even Daniel Lyons, the recently outed Fake Steve Jobs and SCO supporter, posted a “SCO is screwed” post at Forbes (interestingly enough, it wasn’t a mea culpa, and gave no [...]
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10 Aug
In my last post, I talked about the venerable tcpdump tool. For load balancing, it’s a critical tool for diagnosing issues.
Another tool, equally as critical, is an HTTP header-sniffer. For Firefox, one such tool is Live HTTP Headers. For Internet Explorer, there’s ieHTTPHeaders.
Both of these tools do essentially the same thing, which is [...]
Posted in Load Balancing 101 by: tony
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08 Aug
Diagnostic tools are critically important. It’s something that often gets forgotten in product development, but it can make or break a product, especially in a product’s formative years (or during big code updates) while the kinks are being worked out.
The swiss army knife of diagnostic tools, and the one most essential in the entire networking [...]
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07 Aug
My buddy Ron pointed this out to me. So, in the past two weeks, F5 stock has tanked, and lost about $1 billion in shareholder value. They’ve up and bought a storage company, and apparently that didn’t go over too well.
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