What were you doing 20 years ago?
20 years ago DevCentral made its first technical community post and created a place where F5 users could learn from each other. What where you doing 20 years ago? Working in technology or a different industry? Or maybe you were doing something else incredible with your life. Share your stories with us here! As for me, 20 years ago I was in high school studying for the SATs (which were a lot different 20 years ago), sending out college applications, and looking at prom dresses! 🙂 Join the 20th Anniversary Group Hub to see other stories and share your own!How an F5er uses DevCentral
I recently interviewed F5's ownSudhir_Patamsettiabout his experiences for #DevCentral20and thought I'd share his words here. Me: How has DevCentral helped you over the years, or allowed you to help others? Sudhir: DevCentral has been instrumental in my professional growth by providing me with a wealth of technical resources, tutorials, and code samples that have helped me overcome challenges and enhance my understanding of F5 products. It has also enabled me to contribute back to the community by sharing my knowledge and experiences through forum discussions. Me: Why is DevCentral valuable to you? Sudhir: DevCentral is valuable to me because it serves as a central hub where I can connect with a vibrant community of F5 users, experts, and enthusiasts. The platform allows me to collaborate, learn from others, and stay updated with the latest trends and best practices in the application delivery and security space. Me: What is your favorite DC memory? Sudhir: I have found watching videos on F5 DevCentral's YouTube channel to be a valuable learning experience. The channel offers a wide range of videos covering topics such as security and networking, providing accessible and informative content to enhance my understanding of F5 products and related concepts.The trip so far...
In 2013 I relocated to Wuhan, China working for a Swedish company. It was mostly fun but in the mornings I found myself having a bit of too much spare time. So out of sheer boredom, I decided to try to use the time to get better at my job by answering questions on DevCentral. Didn't take much time before I realized it was actually a lot of fun taking a crack at the problems posted on the forums. At the time Kevin Stewart was my absolute idol in the forum with points miles ahead of any of us and I read most articles that the team wrote. Kudos to Jason Rahm, Colin Walker (RIP), Pete Silva and all the other people for writing content that made us come back for more.❤️ Making the trip to Washington and Boston for Agility was some of the best experiences I've ever had. Made many friends that I still talk to today and got to meet some of the other F5 superstars like Hoolio, Joel Moses and Tony Hynes. Today I don't write as many posts and mostly hang out in the Code Share forum where I maintain some projects that can be useful in an F5 environment, but what makes me come back is the community, technical articles and my love for open source. Special award goes toLeslie_Hubertusfor keeping us together with her humor, nerdiness and can-do attitude and toLiefZimmermanfor his never-ending patience and positive attitude while fixing the curve balls thrown his way. See you in the forum! 🙂Colin Walker Tribute
Where to start...man, Colin Walker was larger than life. The first full time employee on the DevCentral team, he hit the ground with fury. An iRules extraordinaire, he taught with skill, wit, and kindness. I enjoyed getting to know him when I was a customer, and it was truly an honor to have the chance to work along side him on the DevCentral team. Colin left F5 years ago to pursue other ventures, and shockingly passed away recently, but his legacy lives on in these virtual halls. Rock on, Colin.
My Life in DevCentral
Hi Folks, I joined to DevCentral in the beginning of November 2022 from that time a major changes came to my life. F5 DevCentral board appreciated me by giving me the Featured member and followed by MVP title, I can not deny how much I felt appreciated and happy. DevCentral Like the GYM where people go to keep their fitness , DevCentral keeps you fit in F5 products as it considered the better place to practice F5. F5 is a unique technology deserves from the one to invest himslf learning this technology. I don't know the answers for the most of technical queries from F5 users , but I'm depending on searching to get info helps someone, this helped me much to pass 301a , 301b exams but the most valuable thing you take from DevCentral that it teachs you to help others and this a great value for everyone to present. I am grateful For F5 and DevCentral Community managers and the whole board! DevCental helps me alot , of course it's the right place for F5 and human personality 🙂 ^_^my three years life in f5 devcentral community
The first contact with the F5 device was on May 25, 2020，The first contact with the devcentral community was on September 1, 2020. The operation and maintenance environment, F5 LTM and GTM configurations are simple， LTM only use tcp and udp profile, no ssl offload because ssl offload was on nginx,Therefore, there are no major challenges in daily work and life. In daily life, using BIG VE for experiments，I can't even remember how many email accounts I used to register f5 account to apply for a 30 day trial license. Over the past two years, I have been conducting experiments and using Python f5-sdk to achieve automatic creation of VS and publishing of GTM wideip a and aaaa domain names locally. In the past three months, I have been doing things unrelated to F5 during the day and reviewing the F5 exam at night and on weekends.Obtained the following results： 3.27 pass f5-101, 4.7 pass f5-201, 4.21 pass f5-301a, 5.17 pass f5-301b, today 6.20 pass f5-302 exams
