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Ten Best Practices for Optimizing BIG-IP Deployments

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

We had a great webinar yesterday, on the Top 10 Best Practices for Optimizing Application Delivery Controller Deployments, with a special emphasis for F5’s BIG-IP. (Given Jesse’s background, it’s hard to think of anyone who’s more qualified to talk about this subject really.) Thanks to those of you who took time out of your busy [...]

To Nagle or Not to Nagle, That is the Question

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

In our work with customers, we’ve come across the question of Nagling quite a few times. When we show network engineers that they have a relatively high number of Nagle Delays, it’s not unusual to hear this response “That Nagle’s algorithm, I don’t know what it’s good for. I’ve never seen it do anything but [...]

Metric of the Day: Retransmission Timeouts (RTOs)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system captures a lot of metrics, and much of it can be daunting since not everyone can be a network expert like Raja. So I’m kicking off this new series to talk about some of the more interesting metrics, what they mean, why is it important, and an example or [...]