About Author: tony

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Tony is an IT instructor, pilot, scuba diver, marathon runner, and vegan.

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  • иконографияikoniI write here sporadically. Sometimes I’ll post a few times a week, sometimes a month will go by without hearing from my fountain of load balancing wisdom. Load balancing is...

    Time to Retire lbdigest.com?

    иконографияikoniI write here sporadically. Sometimes I’ll post a few times a week, sometimes a month will go by without hearing from my fountain of load balancing wisdom. Load balancing is...

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  • And not the term load balancers, but replacing load balancers as a technology for HA/scaling. A DNS company called Dyn is launching a PR offensive against hardware-based load balancers. (Or...

    War on Load Balancers?

    And not the term load balancers, but replacing load balancers as a technology for HA/scaling. A DNS company called Dyn is launching a PR offensive against hardware-based load balancers. (Or...

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  • This week I was a guest along with Lori MacVittie from F5 on the great Packet Pushers podcast, for an episode based on load balancers.  Here are a couple of...

    Packet Pushers Podcast

    This week I was a guest along with Lori MacVittie from F5 on the great Packet Pushers podcast, for an episode based on load balancers.  Here are a couple of...

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  • For years now, the load balancing industry has been trying to shift to the new term “application delivery controllers”, or ADC. The argument is that this is a new generation...

    They’re %@#$!ing Load Balancers

    For years now, the load balancing industry has been trying to shift to the new term “application delivery controllers”, or ADC. The argument is that this is a new generation...

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  • I was very honored to join the esteemed Packet Pushers Podcast this week, in an episode hilariously entitled: Protect My B00b135 by Hating on Firewalls. We discussed our mutual hatred of...

    Packet Pushers

    I was very honored to join the esteemed Packet Pushers Podcast this week, in an episode hilariously entitled: Protect My B00b135 by Hating on Firewalls. We discussed our mutual hatred of...

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  • As you may have heard, the SSL certificate vendor Comodo had a security breach recently which allowed a hacker to get valid, signed certificates for a number of websites including...

    OCSP And You

    As you may have heard, the SSL certificate vendor Comodo had a security breach recently which allowed a hacker to get valid, signed certificates for a number of websites including...

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  • One of the biggest differentiators in load balancing is whether or not the product has the ability to manipulate traffic using application logic, not just direct traffic. The best known...

    iRules: Cold Dead Hands

    One of the biggest differentiators in load balancing is whether or not the product has the ability to manipulate traffic using application logic, not just direct traffic. The best known...

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  • I’m a big fan of virtualization.  There’s a lot to like about it, including consolidation (getting rid of space-heater servers that do nothing running 1% CPU and sucking up electricity...

    Achilles Heal for Virtual Load Balancers: SSL

    I’m a big fan of virtualization.  There’s a lot to like about it, including consolidation (getting rid of space-heater servers that do nothing running 1% CPU and sucking up electricity...

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  • SSL performance is a tricky thing to measure.  There are a lot of different aspects to consider, and on top of that different vendors use slightly different definitions for the...

    CPS versus TPS: How to Measure SSL Performance

    SSL performance is a tricky thing to measure.  There are a lot of different aspects to consider, and on top of that different vendors use slightly different definitions for the...

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  • кухненско обзавеждане The fact is, we’re more addicted to cookies than even Cookie Monster Came upon this post on Slashdot.org, a criticism of HTTP cookies entitled “HTTP cookies, or how...

    The HTTP Cookie Monster

    кухненско обзавеждане The fact is, we’re more addicted to cookies than even Cookie Monster Came upon this post on Slashdot.org, a criticism of HTTP cookies entitled “HTTP cookies, or how...

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