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Lori Mac Vittie

Principal Technical Evangelist, F5 Networks

Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services available across F5’s entire software suite with an emphasis on F5 Synthesis and LineRate. Her role includes authorship of technical materials and participation in a number of community-based forums and industry standards organizations, among other efforts. She currently focuses on cloud computing, infrastructure, devops, data center architecture, and security-related topics. MacVittie has extensive development and technical architecture experience in both high-tech and enterprise organizations, in addition to network and systems administration expertise. Prior to joining F5, MacVittie was an award-winning technology editor at Network Computing Magazine.

She holds a B.S. in Information and Computing Science from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Nova Southeastern University, an O’Reilly author and a member of the Board of Regents at DevOps Institute.

Articles

March 4, 2015

DATA CENTER

How you integrate Network Services matters

4 min read

Guest post from Lori Mac Vittie (@lmacvittie) from F5 Networks  How you provision all the network things matters Polymorphism is a concept central to object-oriented programming. The notion of polymorphism is used to extend the capabilities of a basic object, like a mammal, to specific implementations, like cats or dogs or honey badgers, even though they don’t […]