The right load balancer for your application may not be the first one you think of, which for many is F5 Networks. IT architectures have evolved and what was popular in the past is not necessarily the right choice today. F5’s legacy application delivery controller (ADC) products are based on a product that was designed in the mid 1990’s before there was virtualization, public clouds, and software-defined anything (SDx). F5 has evolved their solution to adapt to these changes, but they have done this by regularly rearchitecting the original framework resulting in unnecessary complexity.
