Elevate Your Skills - Register for AppWorld 2025
AppWorld 2025 is set for February 25-27 in Las Vegas. Focusing on application security and delivery, this three-day event is packed with expert-led sessions, hands-on labs, and networking opportunities for practitioners and experts from around the world. F5 Academy is at the Heart of AppWorld 2025. Ideal for those working towards certification. You’ll engage with F5's latest products through hands-on labs, sharpen your skills, and earn digital badges. One free certification practice exam will be available before the event. You can earn (ISC)2 CPE credits for certain security-focused labs, and F5 will handle credit submission for you. --------------------------------------- UPDATE Nov 11. --------------------------------------- Labs and Briefings To Attend Find the full list of labs and briefingson the F5 Academy at AppWorld 25 page. F5 in the AI Era: For users who are new to AI, this briefing explores how F5 technology can help organizations with their AI journeys. F5 NGINX One: Learn how the NGINX One console provides visibility into a global fleet of NGINX instances, both NGINX Plus and NGINX Open Source (OSS). F5 Distributed Cloud: Discovering & Securing APIs: Get hands-on experience with the API Discovery and Security capabilities of F5 Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) within F5 Distributed Cloud. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Attend? Learn: Access a year's worth of knowledge in three days through keynotes, solution-focused breakouts, product deep-dives, and roundtables. Connect: Network with professionals from DevCentral, NGINX, and F5 Insiders communities. Influence: Share your experiences with BIG-IP, Distributed Cloud, and NGINX to influence F5’s technology direction. Elevate your technical skills and connect with peers at AppWorld 2025; a must-attend event. Register for AppWorld 2025 today and join us in Las Vegas!F5 Partners join us for Partner Connect Quarterly Update: May 21 & 22
We are excited to invite you to the F5 Partner Connect Quarterly Update, an exclusive event designed to empower our partners with cutting-edge insights and strategic direction. Join us on May 21st and 22nd for a deep dive into F5's transformation journey and the unlocking of API security potential. May 21 12pm SGT: Asia Pacific, China, and Japan May 22: 2pm BST: Europe, Middle East, and Africa 11am PDT: Americas We will revisit F5’s evolution and reinforce our stance on API security, spotlighting our strategic acquisitions of WIB and Heyhack. Chuck Herrin, Senior Principal Product Manager for Security and former CTO at WIB, will delineate F5's forward-thinking approach in the application and API security landscape. Josh Goldfarb, Global Solutions Architect for Security will present 10 actionable best practices. These insights will help you, our valued partners, to maximize profitability and leverage F5’s innovative solutions for unparalleled market opportunities. Do not miss this chance to connect with F5 leaders and stay at the forefront of the security domain. Together, let's transform challenges into opportunities and elevate API security to new heights. Register Now!A Makeover for DevCentral.
UPDATE: This maintenance has been moved to Jan 24th starting at approximately 8AM Pacific time. --- DevCentral Community, TL;DR - I am announcing some updates coming to the DevCentral community website in a few days - January 17th.24th. This is a mid-sized reboot, some upgrades that we expect will make our online environment a bit nicer to use now and enable more epic-ness to come. ***This update WILL include a maintenance downtime of up to 6 hours starting around 8AM PT (-8 UTC).*** A huge shoutout. I speak for everyone on our team when I say the DevCentral community rocks! We on the DevCentral team are inspired and motivated by your creativity and willingness to share. The depth of your capabilities and the mutual respect you have for individual learning never ceases to amaze. Asyou, collectively, work through increasingly complex problem-spaces we are always working to support your progress. Our recent observations and your suggestions have been buzzing in our ears for several months and so the changes you'll see soon represent next steps for what we think will make your DevCentral community truly exceptional. An updated UI is just the start. Interface updates will be the most obvious, but these are evolutionary rather than revolutionary - a paint job and some new tech. The new tech includes a simpler set of stylesheets, more configurable page templates, some advanced features in the editors, and an overall reductive approach to some historical bloat. One of my design tenets is best summarized as comfortably information dense. DevCentral is a functional website, mostly used during your workweek, and we are looking to strike a balance between engaging with the content quickly and easily (e.g., less scrolling and more filters) without getting eyestrain or needing to know where you are on the site. I'll get into a bit more detail next week and after we launch, I expect to produce some guided walkthroughs you can use to discover some gems. If you are coming to AppWorld in San Jose in February - be sure to stop by our booth and look me up - I can give you a personalized tour.Mention this article and I'll be forced to find some special swag for you too!😎 Wait. Did you say "reductive"? Yes. In a world where everyone backs up everything a subtractive mindset seems nutty. I'm no expert (case-in-point, the length of this announcement) but I embrace the subtractive sentiment and as such I have been ruthless about driving this upgrade for a host of reasons and that *may* have come at the expense of some existing features. Some things won't be present at launch (like Badges and Event calendars) but on-balance I'm sure we will be better off. That said, if something you love disappears - let me know in a comment, in a DM, or on the Suggestions page. I can't promise everything, butI do promise my level-best and that everything is done with intent: sharing valuable and useful technical information with you. Temporary Outage Most important, for now, is to plan for a short outage the morning of Jan 17th approximately 8AM Pacific Time (-8H UTC) for up to about 6 hours. Next: A reminder on Monday, Jan 15th 🚀
