After 20 years of growing together with Chinese users, F5's "From Code to Users" concept will start again in 2020!

[51CTO.com original article] At 9:00 am on May 20, 2020, the F5 "Code to User" Online Summit and F5 China 20th Anniversary Celebration were launched online on time. Nearly 10,000 industry insiders "watched" this top technology summit through the Internet. At the conference, F5 proposed to create a new architecture foundation "from code to user" to help Chinese customers explore new ideas for digital transformation. At the same time, this summit also commemorated the 20th anniversary of F5's roots in the Chinese market with unprecedented high standards. Not only did many F5 executives participate in this event, but also set up three major themes and five major content sections and other rich content, and celebrated F5's growth with China together with many partners and important customers.

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F5 executives appeared one by one to explain the technical vision

F5 Global CEO Fan Zhonglin first appeared and delivered an opening welcome speech. Then F5 China General Manager Zhang Yiqiang gave a keynote speech entitled "Grateful for the Times and Live Up to the Future". He recalled that in the past 20 years, F5's annual sales have increased 100 times, the number of employees has increased 20 times, and the number of offices has increased from 1 to 6. "Thanks to many partners and customers for their recognition of F5." He said that in the future, F5 will continue to increase its investment in the Chinese market, increase investment in China's R&D center, expand the production of localized products, build the Chinese NGINX community, create the three engines of cloud, software, and security, and continuously improve local customer service satisfaction.

This year, the senior management of F5 has shown great support for the Chinese market, and many of them will make their debut on this Chinese stage. The famous Chinese scientist Lin Geng joined F5 as executive vice president and chief technology officer on July 1 last year. Today is his first public speech to Chinese users. He not only brought the global cutting-edge technology trends, but also elaborated on the technical development path of "code to user", and proposed innovative thinking and implementation solutions for the digital transformation challenges faced by enterprises. "Application services are converting digital capabilities into user experience. When users observe the current status of application services, they are more eager for deep application insights and automation. F5 is in a unique position to meet this demand of users." He said that F5 innovatively integrates a unified application service architecture from code to user, and connects automated deployment, application visualization, big data analysis, and AIOps in series to help users simplify the complexity of application operation and maintenance, optimize application services with data and analysis, and thus gain insight into the value of business.

NGINX founder Igor Sysoev also prepared this public speech specifically for the F5 Online Summit. Since F5 acquired NGINX last year, many NGINX users in China have repeatedly expressed their hope to meet Igor Sysoev, a great figure. This time he came as promised and told the story of "My Story with NGINX and the Future Development of NGINX" in the live broadcast room. In the interview dialogue session, he shared his views on open source and his views on the future development of China's open source industry.

In addition, Wu Jingtao, CTO of F5 China, also talked about how the application service architecture from code to user was implemented in China. From a practical perspective, he shared F5's integrated application delivery practices and application security practices in a multi-cloud and multi-active environment, as well as real-time application visualization and automation practices from code to user, and talked about how F5 helps enterprises use data and analysis to optimize application services and gain insights into business to generate value.

Three major themes + five major technical sections are full of practical information

In order to meet the needs of different participants such as F5 customers, partners, and NGINX developers, F5 set up three major themes for the 8-hour meeting, including technology trends and interpretation, NGINX open source community release, and cloud and modern application ecology, and invited important guests in the industry to give keynote speeches. At 9:15 a.m., Du Shifeng, director of F5 China Cloud Business and Partners, and Zhu Minke, general manager of Tencent Cloud Industry Ecology Cooperation Department, also jointly released F5 and Tencent Cloud to jointly build China's cloud ecosystem.

At 11 a.m., the conference opened five major technical sections on time. These were wonderful videos recorded by F5's partners, customers, agents, and F5's own technical experts to meet the needs of technical people: NGINX and cloud native section, empowering modern applications; application security section, security without boundaries, application first; financial technology section, technology drives innovation, finance towards the future; innovation ecosystem section, creating an open, innovative, and win-win ecosystem; distributed architecture section, multi-cloud and multi-active leading technological innovation.

For 20 years, we have been committed to combining disruptive technology with local development

Looking back at F5's 20 years of development in China, we can identify a pattern - F5 proposes innovative technology evolution directions every 4-5 years, and based on this, deeply integrates the needs of corporate business and application services to lead the innovative development of the local market.

In 2005, F5 came to China with load balancing technology, allowing domestic users to experience the charm of traffic management; in 2009, F5 opened up the application delivery market to help customers improve application security awareness and defense capabilities; in 2013, F5 promoted software-defined application delivery and built an active-active data center, becoming the industry's default active-active standard. In 2017, F5 proposed the ABCDE big data engine with application joysticks and visualization in China, using AI, BIG DATA and Cloud-related technologies to improve user experience in DevOps environments. In 2020, in order to accelerate the digital transformation journey of domestic users, F5 proposed a "code to user" coping service architecture...

We believe that there will be countless technological iterations on the road to growth of China's IT industry. We also believe that F5, which has always grown together with China's IT industry, will continue to surprise Chinese customers through technological innovation. We also believe that as Chinese customers' digital transformation continues to deepen, F5 will stand at the forefront of technological innovation and create a brilliant chapter with the Chinese market!

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