Lori Mac Vittie [@lmacvittie], is a technologist and principal evangelist in F5 Networks’ Office of the CTO with an emphasis on emerging architectures and technologies including cloud and edge computing, network automation and orchestration, microservices, and containers. Mac Vittie has over twenty-five years of industry experience spanning application development, IT architecture, and network and systems’ operation.

Prior to joining F5, Mac Vittie was an award-winning technology editor at Network Computing Magazine.

She holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Nova Southeastern University and is an O’Reilly author. As a Wisconsin native she has very strong opinions about cheese and beer.

Intellyx co-hosts: Jason Bloomberg, Jason English.

Topics covered:

What happened to the field of technical journalism, and actual product reviews?
How has the way we expect to buy software and hardware evolved with cloud, and cloud marketplaces?
Why is everything going to SaaS models, but IaaS is just a little slower on the uptake?
Why are Kubernetes and containerization happening so fast in major enterprises?
What is the future of software-driven network and security on the edge, and does the edge, microservices and even 5G bring our delivery efforts closer to where customer value is generated?

Show links:

F5's "State of Application Services" 2020 annual report: https://www.f5.com/state-of-application-services-report
F5.com website: https://f5.com
Video link: https://youtu.be/SR5zTLhOTkg
Intellyx blog with full transcript: https://intellyx.com/2020/08/31/brainwave-3-lori-mac-vittie-from-legacy-cloud-to-securing-the-edge-and-beyond/

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