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Why does a one-star review cut so deep?
One day, my nice, predictable little reviews process took a wild turn...
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Storage
Sovereignty, speed, and scalability: How neocloud providers are building resilient S3 storage architectures
Ed Coyde
Storage Lead
Comparisons
HAProxy Enterprise Edition vs Progress Kemp LoadMaster: A no-fluff engineer comparison
Jeff Gosden
QA Lead
Direct Server Return
The complete guide to Layer 4 load balancing: How it works, when to use, and how to configure
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
How to set up and manage an F5 in the ADC Portal
Azeddine Ait Kaddour
Guest author
As an F5 engineer, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts...
Load balancing Weka is no longer optional — the new normal is 100X faster
Joshua Turnbull
Managing Director
Within the space of a few years our customers are demanding increases in performance and capacity — not just 10X, but 100X!..
The complete guide to Layer 4 load balancing: How it works, when to use, and how to configure
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
Layer 4 load balancing is a quick way of distributing application or network traffic across multiple servers...
Unlocking the power of Endurance: A beginner's API guide for smarter load balancing
Jeff Gosden
QA Lead
We asked ourselves: how can we make our load balancers not just a component, but a fully integrated part of a modern, automated environment?..
Building Endurance: A load balancer with a clear purpose
Andrew Zak
Head of Development
Get the inside story on why Endurance was created. Our Enterprise platform served us well, but modern infrastructure demands more...
Microsoft NLB is finally going End of Life — so what next?!
Joshua Turnbull
Managing Director
Microsoft NLB is rumoured to be going End of Life. If you’re still using it, now is the perfect time to consider a smarter alternative...
Extending the ModSecurity WAF, with Denial Of Service protection — using HAProxy
Dave Saunders
Head of Client Engineering
Our long time partner Metaswitch, desperately needed to stop brute force login attacks on the enterprise phone system that they supply to large telecom companies...
A simple Citrix SSO replacement; with Okta, Apache and OpenID Connect
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
This setup allows you to leverage the power of a centralized identity management system to secure your web apps, while maintaining the flexibility and performance you expect...
The MSP guide to rate limiting Hitachi Vantara object storage with HAProxy
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
When you're providing object storage as a shared service, rate limits help ensure that no single user or application can overwhelm the system...
Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!
Lenin Martinez
Professional Services Engineer
Connecting remote sites to central data centers necessitates GSLB. But implementation for legacy modalities isn't straightforward...
How to connect and manage a Citrix NetScaler in the Loadbalancer ADC Portal
Mick Hilhorst
Guest author
As a NetScaler specialist, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts...
How application delivery helps avoid travel disruption
Kyle Clinton
SDR
Application Delivery Controllers help get me from A to B without incident in so many ways...