F5 has always been a little different than other infrastructure companies. Yes, it cut its teeth on load balancing successfully, and this put F5 in-between developers and infrastructure teams. It is known in most corporations by both organizations giving them a wide view into requirements, which has served it well over the years. It started with physical appliances that balanced traffic as it entered a private data center destined to specific servers so as to avoid bottlenecks and improve user experience. Leveraging this data path…