AppWorld 2026
as the organisers put it
Join F5 for AppWorld 2027 to get hands-on with our products and find out what’s next.
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, security engineers, devops engineers, cloud architects, ai infrastructure engineers, product managers
topics
agentic observability with MCP; Model Context Protocol parsing; NGINX Ingress Controller and Gateway Fabric; AI security for Kubernetes guardrails; distributed cloud at Equinix edge; high-performance S3-compatible object storage; GPU-aware AI workload routing; post-quantum cryptography transition; automating certificate management; centralized SaaS management console; DDoS visibility and mitigation; red teaming and remediate integration
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Q&A with Maryam Zand: The real problems Equinix + F5 solve together | Maryam Zand | 10m |
Equinix and F5 describe a joint solution that lets customers deploy F5 Distributed Cloud at edge sites in minutes instead of the usual months, connecting apps… | ||
| Agentic Observability With NGINX: Open Source MCP Traffic Monitoring | Alessandro Fael Garcia, Jason Williams | 06m |
NGINX ships an Agentic Observability module that parses MCP (Model Context Protocol) calls between agents and tools, extracts tool names, errors, latency and… | ||
| "Today Is as Easy as It's Going to Get" — AI, Complexity & Platforms with | Chase Abbott, Norman Egan | 11m |
AI appears in every customer conversation and teams are dipping toes then pulling back because budgets and governance are unclear. Presidio offers a hands‑on… | ||
| Everything You Trust Online Could Break — F5 Labs on Q-Day | Buu Lam, David Warburton | 07m |
Predicts Q-day could arrive as early as 2029–2030 and that a future quantum machine could break RSA‑2048, so critical applications must migrate by 2030 and… | ||
| The Exploding Attack Surface of Agentic AI | F5 and | Chase Abbott, Istvan Berko | 16m |
Claim: moving from single-shot models to tool-enabled, agentic systems makes the attack surface exploded because hundreds of models and agents talk and gain… | ||
| Trace3’s Evolution in Healthcare Solutions: Stability and Innovation | Buu Lam, Aaron Zink, Paul Scuba | 12m |
Trace3 traces a healthcare practice back to 2006 and prioritizes stability first, using F5 Big‑IP as a rock‑solid load balancer platform to host PACS, DICOM… | ||
| Optimizing AI Data Infrastructure with F5 and | Buu Lam, Maggie Stringfield, Ugur Tigli | 12m |
MinIO presents a high-performance S3-compatible object storage with 10 years of development and features like three-generation replication, LDAP/OIDC and KMS… | ||
| The Future of Open Ecosystem Programs: Bridging Communities, Innovation, and Collaboration | Alessandro Fael Garcia, Annania Melaku | 11m |
Defines open core vs source-available precisely: source-available is viewable but lacks open-source permissions, open core is a business model mixing public… | ||
| AI Security for Kubernetes: Guardrails, Red Team, and Remediate | Alessandro Fael Garcia, Jason Williams | 06m |
F5 runs its AI security stack in Kubernetes and routes model traffic through the F5 NGINX Ingress Controller and Gateway Fabric for inspection. Guardrails… | ||
| AI Workloads and NGINX: Navigating Agentic Traffic Flows | Buu Lam, Liam Crilly | 14m |
NGINX adds agentic observability in NGINX Plus R37 using the JavaScript module to unpack MCP flows, count per‑tool bandwidth and errors, and surface which… | ||
| Managing NGINX at Scale: Features of NGINX One Console | Alessandro Fael Garcia, Daniel Edgar | 13m |
NGINX One Console is a SaaS centralized manager that registers NGINX instances via a data‑plane key, collects telemetry (about ~200 metrics including CPU… | ||
| Is Coming to iHealth — Here's What to Expect | Jason Rahm, Kendall Brenneise | 09m |
NGINX on iHealth is arriving imminently with concrete tools: quick links and command execution plus file and log viewing so engineers can run the same basic… | ||
| Addressing Visibility in DDoS Defense: Insights from MazeBolt at AppWorld | Buu Lam, Matthew Andriani | 06m |
MazeBolt reports that it finds real bypasses of DDoS defenses and feeds that exploit data to F5, and F5 closes those gaps faster than competitors. The joint… | ||
| Automation Strategies: Real-World Experiences from F5 and | Jason Rahm, Matt Mabis, George James | 15m |
Describes moving from manual, imperative work to declarative automation and shows a concrete win: saving full router and switch backups that once required 20… | ||
| Agentic Attackers, LLM Leaderboards, and Q-Day: A Conversation with F5 Labs | Buu Lam, David Warburton | 06m |
F5 Labs publishes CASI and ARS leaderboards that score hundreds of models by running about 10,000 new attack prompts each month (now ~130,000+ prompts total)… | ||
| Customer Zero: Leveraging F5's Own Products for Real-World Insights | Chase Abbott, Jon Gross | 13m |
F5 runs an internal dogfood program called F5 on F5 that now focuses on being customer zero: building a reimagined API ecosystem with a monitored landing zone… | ||
| Bringing Security Operations to the Network: F5 and CrowdStrike Together | Buu Lam, Chris Kachigian | 07m |
CrowdStrike capability is embedded directly into F5 BIG-IP appliances to give control‑plane visibility and alerting, shipping as a single agent, SaaS-backed… | ||
| Introducing Red Hat AI Quickstarts: Streamlined Deployments for Engineers | Buu Lam, Shane Heroux | 06m |
Red Hat AI quickstarts provide step‑by‑step blueprints for deploying stacks on Red Hat OpenShift AI, with a partner‑led API security quickstart that configures… | ||
| AI, DPUs, and Distributed Workloads: What F5 and Nutanix Are Building Together | Buu Lam, Aniket Daptari | 09m |
Nutanix Flow runs networking and network security on-prem, in AWS/Azure/GCP, and in containers and already offloads the stack onto NVIDIA DPUs; F5 integrates… | ||
| Automating Certificate Management with | Chase Abbott, Frank Agurto-Machado | 13m |
Claims that DigiCert ONE connectors plus network sensors integrate with F5 BIG-IP and NGINX to discover public and private PKI, ingest CMDB data, and… | ||
| One App at a Time: DigiCert's Practical Playbook for the Post-Quantum Transition | Chase Abbott, Asif Karel | 15m |
DigiCert states enterprises must start PQC work now: pick one app or use private CAs in a lab via DigiCert PQC labs, automate certificate lifecycle to survive… | ||
| MinIO on Databricks, Sovereign Cloud, and the GPU Storage Race | Buu Lam, Mahesh Patel | 05m |
Claims MinIO is the highest‑performing object store and just launched a Databricks partnership that makes Delta Lakes and Unity Catalog on‑prem available for… | ||
| Keyfactor on Cryptographic Discovery: Why Knowing What You Have Is Step One | Chase Abbott, Shian Sung | 12m |
Argues that the immediate step is enterprise-wide cryptographic discovery that scans repos (GitHub, Artifactory), SSH keys on servers and endpoints, and… | ||
| Cutting Through the Kubernetes Confusion: NGINX Ingress, Gateway Fabric, and What's Next | Alessandro Fael Garcia, Micheal Kingston | 10m |
Clarifies that the community NGINX Ingress controller is retired while F5’s actively developed NGINX Ingress Controller remains maintained and is adding… | ||
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