Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by vetrom on Monday March 11, 2019 @08:10PM (#19364168)

haproxy is amazingly functional and has done a fine job of evolving over the years. At a particular $DEFUNCTCLOUDVENDOR we implemented a haproxy based ELB-ish solution with home grown control logic to replace a F5 installation whos configuration size grew unwieldy (the F5 config parser was falling over in their LBs) while we were nowhere near the F5's touted connection/throughput numbers. F5 wasn't really willing to work with us on licensing, so we implemented a system based on haproxy VMs that worked because we were more than a bit overprovisioned on switching capacity and were able to shard that configuration base more effectively over more VMs.

This was 2011, so I'd hope newer F5 gear has gotten past that.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by swasheck on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:43PM (#19364897)

18 months ago I was in a shop that used F5 and it was a nightmare. Some of the best network admins I've ever worked with and they couldn't nail down why the load balancer did the things it did, when it did them. It was bad enough that the config had more exceptions than rules just so that we could try to eliminate anomalies.

I hope NGINX doesn't suffer too much under this new ownership.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by tyingq on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:59PM (#19364980)

It may get embedded tcl.

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