Articles by KENNETH

How Hardware Load Balancers Are Killing Agile Development (and Competitive Advantage)! Agile development has become much more than just another buzzword. It’s how enterprises are building new services that compete with disruptors who are delivering great user experiences in finance, media delivery, retailing – basically, every industry – through modern applications. As a result, businesses are applying incredible pressure on developers and ops team to keep ahead of the competition by delivering new features weekly, daily, or even hourly. However, as they deploy those features, developers can’t get new traffic‑routing rules applied in real time; they have to wait for networking teams to reconfigure hardware load balancers, which can take many hours, days, or even weeks. This is causing immense friction in enterprises as traditional networking teams hold on to their function and relevance, despite the fact that the problem is obvious [ more… ]