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In this episode our hosts are joined by Bailey Hayes, CTO of Cosmonic, and Pat Hickey, Principal Engineer at Fastly, to discuss WASI—WebAssembly System (or Standard depending on who you ask) Interface. Listen in to learn more about why WASI is important, what all the “previews” are, whether or not the component model is done, plus so much more! Chapters: 1:25 – AI and WASM in Edge locations 4:03 –...

In this episode our three hosts are joined by Daniel (Danny) Macovei, co-founder at JAF Labs to discuss registry and package distribution in both a federated and non-opinionated way while ensuring safety and security. Find out what’s unique about Wasm for packet management, learn the difference between locked and bundled components, hear what measures are being taken for Warg security, and tune in...

Join F5’s Distinguished Engineer, Joel Moses, Principal Software Engineer, Oscar Spencer, and Architect, Matthew Yacobucci for the inaugural episode of WebAssembly Unleashed—a podcast for architects, practitioners, technologists, and general Wasm enthusiasts. In this episode our three hosts delve into the recently released State of Web Assembly survey results. Find out what’s notable in the commun...

Dan Moore is back and will be teaching us about OAuth Security. We'll learn about the standards docs, token security, using PKCE and other tips for your OAuth implementation. Join Buu Lam live on Tuesday, August 22 at 8:30am Pacific or afterwards by listening to the DevCentral Connects podcast through your favorite podcast app.

DevCentral's Aubrey King talks with James Thomson, F5 Service Provider Architect, about the use cases for Service Providers with Multi-cloud Networking (MCN) and how they may differ from enterprise use cases. What is F5 doing with mobility in this space? Listen to find out!

In November of 2021, F5 began to release quarterly security notifications instead of ad hoc CVEs in an effort to simplify our customer's mitigation steps and to minimize response times and outages in the environments that they protect. At Dev Central, we're teaming up with F5 Security Incident Response Team or SIRT. We’ll be delivering coverage throughout the day to bring the absolute most up to d...

There are many paths to becoming a CTO and one of them will be shared by Joel Moses, CTO of Platforms and Systems at F5. Joel will be sharing what it took to become a CTO and what an aspiring CTO might want to consider doing in order to achieve the same. https://community.f5.com/t5/dcc-forum/how-to-become-a-cto-joel-moses-devcentral-connects-129-june-6/m-p/316302

App modernization sounds like a great idea but when the project starts, you'll undoubtedly run into some stumbling blocks. JJ Asghar has seen it first hand and will join Buu to share those stumbling blocks and the lessons learned. Tune in Tuesday morning at 8:30AM Pacific on May 30 to hear all about it!

You've deployed your first k8s workloads--high fives all around! But now all that success needs some room to flex. Are you ready? Join Jason as he welcomes Justin Garrison to cover best practices with k8s scalability. Resources EKS Best Practices Guide - https://aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/ Cloud Native Infrastructure - https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/cloud-native-infrastructure...

These days, we have the luxury of many tools that can help with making sense of logs. But the fidelity of logs can make a big difference in how easy it is to find that needle in the haystack when troubleshooting. It can also make a big difference in the cost of your logging and observability solution! Shai Almog is a Senior Developer who has developed best practices when it comes to debugging and...

AI is making its way into use cases everywhere. We've seen it generate its own content but can we use it to diagnose and repair technology for us? Kyle Forster and Shea Stewart will be joining Buu to discuss ways they're seeing AI being applied to troubleshooting complex systems. Join them live, Tuesday May 9th at 8:30AM Pacific.

In November of 2021, F5 began to release quarterly security notifications instead of ad hoc CVEs in an effort to simplify our customer's mitigation steps and to minimize response times and outages in the environments that they protect. At Dev Central, we're teaming up with F5 Security Incident Response Team or SIRT. We’ll be delivering coverage throughout the day to bring the absolute most up to d...

Krav means contact in Hebrew and Maga means combat. Together Krav Maga means Contact Combat. KravZT is an approach to Zero Trust that creates a mindset enforcing policies, such as the principle of least privilege; secure IT architecture design, microsegmentation; and technologies including multifactor authentication, user and entity behavior analytics, and endpoint monitoring. Join Buu Lam on Tues...

Buu is at RSA this week, so Jason steps in with guest Jack Fenimore to discuss the EFF Cover Your Tracks tool, an online privacy test that helps you see how well your browser and extensions are protecting your online identity. Whether you're new to online privacy or an experienced user, it's time to take control of your digital footprint. Tune in and protect your online privacy today!

Every year, F5 takes the time to find out broadly what the industry is up to with their applications. This year, our findings gave us key insights about hybrid IT, digital transformation and security strategy. Join Buu Lam as he welcomes Cindy Borovick and Lori MacVittie to discuss these topics in more detail. Tuesday, April 18th at 8:30am Pacific.

Have you been hearing about WebAuthn? WebAuthn is an important development in online security. Dan Moore, Head of Developer Relations at FusionAuth, will be returning to DevCentral Connects to share his WebAuthn expertise. He'll share some of the history of WebAuthn, discuss how it works, its advantages, and the industries that are currently using it. Be sure to join Buu Lam and Dan Moore on April...

Are you looking to pass the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam? Well, Jason Rahm just passed it and he's going to share with you exactly how he went about doing so on his first attempt! Buu and Jason will also be joined by Michael O'Leary to discuss how effective study groups can be and also how you can get involved in one. Join live on Tuesday, April 4 if you want to ask any questions of the...

Aubrey King and Lakhwinder Singh welcome Aki Maruse and Tim Michels to talk about high performance server hardware for modern service provider architectures. What's a DPU, versus a smart NIC? How fast can you REALLY go with these devices? The Local Loop is a Service Provider Focused Podcast produced by F5 DevCentral. Its aim is to educate and interact with our community. As of this recording, it i...

Signaling can be challenging regardless of industry or technology. In this episode of The Drift, Jason untangles a kubernetes default conflicting with an NGINX standard as it relates to graceful shutdown of containers. (music by Jake Rahm)

Have you ever dreamt of having a full 42U rack at home with nearly a petabyte of storage? And if you had it, what would you do with all of that compute and storage? Well, we happened to find someone who does have this and does have a use for it. Join Buu Lam as he chats with James Cox, a Consulting Principal Software Engineer, whose might take the award for the biggest home lab so far on DevCentra...

REGEX can be a killer to performance in iRules and should be avoided when possible. When NOT possible, DevCentral MVP Kai Shared an optimization trick that boosts REGEX performance 15-20%...Jason highlights that technique on this episode of The Drift. (music by Jake Rahm)

Sometimes an API acts in surprising ways. In this episode of The Drift Jason shares an unexpected outcome a DevCentral community member shared. Source: https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-forum/deleting-an-as3-tenant/td-p/300604 Resource: https://clouddocs.f5.com/products/extensions/f5-appsvcs-extension/latest/userguide/http-methods.html (music by Jake Rahm)

These days, Network Engineers are being asked to solve for one of their biggest challenges yet - Multi-Cloud Networking. Well, this guest on DevCentral Connects has been in the trenches and built it all. Not just as a consumer, but the architecture of the cloud connectivity services that we're all familiar with today. Join Buu Lam as he talks to Rob DeWeese, Director of Cloud Networking at Kyndryl...

Upgrading BIG-IP on the command line: 1. Upload the image to your BIG-IP’s /shared/images directory 1. scp root@ :/shared/images/ 2. Login to your BIG-IP 1. Ssh root@ltm3.test.local 3. Make sure the image is verified 1. tmsh list /sys software image 4. Install the image in existing non-active volume (**or create one) 1. tmsh install /sys software image volume HD1.2 5. Wait for your BIG-IP to compl...

Some of the crypto methods in the BIG-IP REST API are deprecated and that results in unexpected results. Jason straightens it out on this episode of The Drift. Source: https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-forum/api-rest-error-400/td-p/300286 (music by Jake Rahm)