Quick Guide Archive

  • Quick and Dirty Performance Testing With Apache Bench

    Quick and Dirty Performance Testing With Apache Bench

    If you need a quick and dirty way to throw some load onto a load balancer/ADC or web server, Apache comes with a great tool called Apache Bench.  Since it’s an HTTP client, it will of course work with any server, not just Apache-based servers....

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  • Part-Time Regex’r? Regex Coach

    Part-Time Regex’r? Regex Coach

    I deal with regex enough to need to know a beginning to intermediate level of knowledge, but I don’t use it enough to be able to form regex statements without thinking. Or in load balancing terms, it’s not burned into my brain ASIC. Every time...

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  • We Can All Get Along

    We Can All Get Along

    In large to medium sized organizations, those responsible for load balancers typically are in the networking group. However, because of the rather unique function of load balancers, their operation is tied closely to the applications in ways that switches, routers, and even firewalls aren’t. To...

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