Rooted in China for 20 years, F5 "Code to User" Online Summit kicked off grandly

[51CTO.com original article] On May 20, 2020, F5, the world's leading multi-cloud application service provider, launched the F5 2020 "Code to User" and F5 China 20th Anniversary Celebration in the form of an online summit, and deeply interpreted F5's "Code to User" strategy. F5 Global CEO Mr. Fan Zhonglin, F5 Global Chief Scientist and CTO Mr. Lin Geng, NGINX founder Mr. Igor Sysoev, and F5 China General Manager Mr. Zhang Yiqiang and other important guests all appeared on the scene, and representatives from customers and partners such as Tencent Cloud, Microsoft, AWS, etc. were invited to participate, and more than 8,000 participants watched the live broadcast online.

In conjunction with F5's 20th anniversary celebration in China and large-scale online events, this summit set up three major themes: technology trends and interpretations, NGINX open source community releases, and cloud and modern application ecology. It also launched five hot sections: NGINX, application security, distributed architecture, financial technology, and partner ecology, including more than 40 online speeches, courses, videos and other exciting content.

F5 China has achieved strong growth after 20 years in China

2020 marks the 20th anniversary of F5's presence in China. Zhang Yiqiang, General Manager of F5 China, reviewed F5's development in China over the past 20 years. As of 2019, F5 has deployed more than 50,000 application delivery solutions in the Chinese market, and the scale of its users and partners continues to expand.

More importantly, F5 is fortunate to be a witness and participant in China's digital transformation wave, and to continue to innovate together with its ecosystem partners. F5 was founded as a hardware company in 1996 and invented the application delivery controller in 2005. In 2009, F5 opened up the application delivery market in China, allowing customers to deliver applications securely at any time. In 2013, the active-active data center standard created by F5 became a recognized benchmark in the industry, and software-defined application delivery was also widely accepted by customers.

Regarding F5's future development in the Chinese market, Zhang Yiqiang said that F5 will continue to exert its strength in 5G, AI and other technical fields, and work with partners to promote the depth of customers' digital transformation in the spirit of open source. He emphasized that in the future, F5 will continue to increase its localization investment in the Chinese market, expand the production of localized products, build the Chinese NGINX community, create the three engines of cloud, software and security, and further improve its service capabilities and satisfaction for local customers.

The strategic upgrade of "code to user" helps enterprises accelerate digital transformation

During the summit, F5 gave an in-depth interpretation of the "Code to Customer" strategy. F5 Global Chief Scientist and Chief Technology Officer Lin Geng said that under the general trend of digital transformation, the business focus of enterprises is shifting to the construction of digital capabilities, and the value of application services lies in converting the existing digital capabilities of enterprises into user experience.

Lin Geng pointed out that the concept of "code to customer" starts from the customer's code, and runs through the distributed architecture of application delivery, application security throughout the entire process, and a visual and manageable model. F5 provides strong support for the entire life cycle from development to application, helping customers deliver different, high-performance and secure digital experiences to their customers and communities. F5's goal is to cover all applications, including all services from writing code to delivering applications to customers, truly realizing its promise of "code to user".

The "code to user" application service architecture has been implemented in China

F5 China Chief Technology Officer Wu Jingtao explained the idea of ​​"from code to user" landing in China. He believes that the current hot "new infrastructure" investment has accelerated the pace of cloud + terminal deployment, but also brought challenges to enterprises such as delays in cloud applications, inconsistent security policies in multi-cloud environments, invisible business activities, and increased difficulty in operation and maintenance.

F5's "code to user" application service architecture can help customers resolve these challenges. Wu Jingtao listed real-life cases such as integrated application delivery in a multi-cloud and multi-active environment, full-process application security, and real-time application visualization and automation practices from code to user, demonstrating how F5 helps enterprises use data and analysis to optimize application services and gain insights into business to generate value.

Another hot topic of this online summit is the official release of the NGINX Chinese community. To date, NGINX open source software has provided support for more than 400 million web sites worldwide. NGINX founder Igor Sysoev and NGINX business unit senior vice president and general manager Gus Robertson came to the live broadcast room to talk about the history of NGINX and the future development of the NGINX open source community, as well as practical development experience.

Looking to the future, F5 embarks on a new journey

For F5, this grand online summit presented the innovative highs in today's Internet technology field with disruptive solutions. It was not only a concentrated presentation of the 20-year development process, but also the starting point of a new journey in the future.

Zhang Yiqiang, General Manager of F5 China, concluded that China's booming digital economy has shown the world the hope of future technological innovation. F5 will take root in the Chinese market and work with customers and partners to achieve a step-by-step approach from code to users. Especially in an environment of increasing crisis and uncertainty, the Chinese market is crucial to F5's success and even the process of global digital transformation.

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