Services anticipated on the Open Source Application Delivery Controller
Traditionally when we think of application delivery controllers, and what goes on them, traditional services such as those listed below come to mind.
1. Loadbalancers
2. SSL offload
3. XML offload
4. Asymmetric application acceleration
5. Traffic tracing
The openADC platform will allow developers from the user and consultant community to write services as they see fit, and whenever they need them. With this in mind we look into the crystal ball and come up with this list of services we anticipate. This is just a start, and we will keep adding to the list. Here it is:
1) End to end transaction monitoring, which includes database and other back end transaction monitoring.
2) Data Leakage monitoring and enforcement.
3) Compliance related monitoring and enforcement.
4) Auto-encryption of sensitive information while it is being transmitted.
5) Application usage pattern discovery.
6)Application performance monitoring, proactive degradation sensors and alerts.
7) Web Application Firewalling.
8) Flexible programmable Deep Packet Inspection engine.
Tags: acceleration, compliance, Data leakage prevention, deep packet inspection, DLP, DPI, loadbalancer, packet tracing, ssl, transaction monitoring, WAF, web application firewall, xml
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November 19, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Looks interesting. Let us know how do we participate in this open forum. Is this still in cooking?
November 19, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Thank you for your comment. The openADC project is very much alive and proceeding, and yes indeed the stew is still cooking
. If you would like to participate then please get an account at http://www.openadc.org . You will get a welcome email, and we will request you to tell us how deeply involved you would like to get. If you would like to code with us, we would be very happy to get the help.
Please track the progress on this blog. We are pretty busy developing, so with limited time, this is the only information outlet we can support. Please comment, and participate.