Blog posts on The State of Application Strategy
The State of Application Strategy blog posts(12)
Your next SRE might be a machine
Control is concentrating at the point of intent: prompts, tokens, and routing. The architecture challenge is defining where AI can act, when it must defer, and how to reverse.
By Lori Mac Vittie
The secret to scaling AI is overcoming Conway’s Law
AI won’t scale by itself. Without a unified control plane that collapses tooling and ownership boundaries, inference becomes the most brittle and coordination-heavy tier.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Identity is the gatekeeper to agentic AI
As agentic AI shifts machines from tools to actors, identity becomes the core control: who can act, on whose behalf, with what scope—enforced inline at inference time.
By Lori Mac Vittie
AI is driving the emergence of new traffic types
AI adoption is creating new first-class traffic types: inference requests plus machine-driven automation traffic and high-volume telemetry traffic that feed control loops.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Inference is now the center of operational gravity
Multi-model operations and API-driven automation push control to inference-time layers—prompt, token/control, routing, and moderation—where cost, risk, and performance must be managed.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Agent skills: An emerging open standard
Skills declare intent but don't enforce control. Real security must live at the tool boundary, where agent thoughts become actions and policy can be enforced.
By Lori Mac Vittie
The new hybrid multicloud challenge is operating without an app delivery and security platform
Enterprises aren’t leaving on-prem—they’re modernizing it. As portfolios stay mixed, app delivery and security must shift from environment-specific features to a unified platform.
By Lori Mac Vittie
From packets to prompts: Inference adds a new layer to the stack
Inference is not training. It is not experimentation. It is not a data science exercise. Inference is production runtime behavior, and it behaves like an application tier.
By Lori Mac Vittie
The influence of inference: APIs, DPUs, and context chaos
AI inference reshapes infrastructure, multiplying APIs, stressing compute, and complicating context. Learn why smarter architecture and runtime policy are essential.
By Lori Mac Vittie
State of Application Strategy 2024: Solutions for Connecting and Securing Apps on AWS
The 2024 SOAS shares insights to help you secure and operate your AWS apps more efficiently with F5. Explore API security, AWS microservices, and service mesh solutions.
By Dave MorrisseyState of Application Strategy 2024: Generative AI Redefines Automation Evolution
Explore how generative AI is revolutionizing automation strategies, accelerating digital transformation, optimizing delivery, and addressing AIOps challenges.
By Lori Mac VittieF5 Research Shows How APIs and AI Are Transforming App Security
F5 Chief Product Officer Kara Sprague shares new research on how APIs, hybrid multicloud environments, and AI are changing customer needs in application security and delivery.
By Kara Sprague