Lori MacVittie

Technical Marketing Manager at F5 Networks

Green Bay, US

Joined Jun 2008

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The Three HTTP Routing Patterns You Should Know

If you have to route any HTTP traffic, then you'd better know these three routing patterns. Come take a look.

Updated May 16, 2018

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Extracting X-Forwarded-For in Node.js

We often need to know where a request is originally coming from, even if the request is coming through a proxy. In this post we take a look at how to get the information using Node.js.

November 3, 2017

· 19,556 Views · 2 Likes

Load Balancing Versus Application Routing

Load balancing and application routing may be provided by the same service, but are defined by key differences and distinct goals.

April 22, 2017

· 13,509 Views · 12 Likes

App Security Is a Stack

App security is not just for developers anymore. Securing apps takes the cooperation of dev, ops, and network teams to identify potential threats and implement architecturally appropriate solutions.

December 2, 2016

· 8,912 Views · 7 Likes

APIs and Compression

Compression is a big deal. Especially at scale. It saves time, money, bandwidth; all good things. Find out how much it can save you.

August 30, 2016

· 3,582 Views · 3 Likes

Where You Rate-Limit APIs Matters

This article explains API scaling concepts and how to rate-limit an API effectively.

August 14, 2016

· 11,381 Views · 8 Likes

Multiplexing: TCP vs HTTP2

And now the question you've all been waiting for: can you use TCP AND HTTP2? Read on...

September 23, 2015

· 8,044 Views · 5 Likes

Microservices Versus Microsegmentation

An exploration of the difference between the concepts of microservices and microsegmentation.

September 17, 2015

· 6,366 Views · 5 Likes

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Load Balancing Versus Application Routing

May 05, 2017 · Arran Glen

Aman is right, a lot of "routers" can do both. The crazy thing is that app routing and LB are often used together. The routing gets you to the right LB, basically, in much the same way as the ingress controller in a K8s deployment gets you to the right service. If the setup uses HTTP headers - host, URI, cookies - to make a decision, that's operating at L7.

Without diving in too deep, there are a variety of different models that combine the two. For example (disclaimer: I work for F5) the BIG-IP has a "Fast L7 Mode" which makes decisions based on limited L7. That kind of mode is great for performance and for stateless services where you don't need deeper inspection. Virtual hosting and microservices (again, especially in container environs) is a good place to use a combination like that.

Enterprise Apps are Not Written for Speed

Jan 13, 2012 · Lori MacVittie

Sorry Andy, my fault entirely. The comments on the site are moderated and so I have to manually approve them the first time you post - your comment has been approved, thanks for pointing it out so I noticed! Lori