Lori MacVittie
Distinguished Engineer and Chief Evangelist at F5, Lori has more than 25 years of industry experience spanning application development, IT architecture, and network and systems' operation. She co-authored the CADD profile for ANSI NCITS 320-1998 and is a prolific author with books spanning security, cloud, and enterprise architecture.
Appears in 15 Episodes
Bots vs Business: AI Fraud & Defending Your Margins
A North Carolina musician was arrested after using AI to generate fake bands and bots to stream their songs—racking up over a billion plays and pocketing $10 million i...
Crossing the streams
Prompt injection isn't some new exotic hack. It’s what happens when you throw your admin console and your users into the same text box and pray the intern doesn’t find...
Agentic APIs Have PTSD
Your APIs were designed for humans and orderly machines: clean request, tidy response, stateless, rate-limited. Then along came agentic AI—recursive, stateful, jittery...
When Context Eats Your Architecture
Anthropic lobbed a million-token grenade into the coding wars, and suddenly every AI startup with a “clever context management” pitch looks like it’s selling floppy di...
The DPU Awakening: Silicon Muscle for AI Mayhem
This week on Pop Goes the Stack, we crack open the next frontier of enterprise infrastructure: DPUs (Data Processing Units). AI factories aren’t just stressing your ne...
Less small talk, more substance
Everyone’s chasing generative AI for flash, but a quiet revolution is happening where the real money is: predictive AI. In this episode, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Mose...
The perimeter has shifted
The perimeter isn’t where you left it. Agents are on the move, APIs are on fire, and your infrastructure is about as ready for this as a fax machine is for a DDoS. In ...
AI Joel: Who owns him?
In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and Ken Arora delve into the complex issue of ownership with respect to your AI-driven digital ...
Old is New Again: Bandwidth will be the AI bottleneck
AI doesn't just chew up compute—it eats your network for breakfast. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and Ken Arora dig into the ...
Fine-tuning on a Budget
Big models, tight budgets? No problem. In this episode of Pop Goes the stack, hosts Lori MacVittie and Joel Moses talk with Dmitry Kit from F5's AI Center of Excellenc...
Now Streaming: Your Status Updates
Google decided what you really wanted wasn’t answers, it was a podcast about your question. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and F5 C...
Securing AI Agents: Tackling the Non-Human Identity Crisis
In this episode of 'Pop Goes the Stack,' host Lori MacVittie and co-host Joel Moses are joined by F5 Sr. Solution Architect Peter Scheffler to delve into the pressing ...
Chasing Logic Chains: Inference tracing
Dive into the intricacies of AI observability and decision-making with host Lori MacVittie and special guest Chris Hain. Lori and Chris discuss Anthropic’s open-sourc...
AI Attacks: The App Security Arms Race
Hosts Lori MacVittie and Joel Moses are joined by F5’s Field CISO Chuck Herrin to dive deep into the implications of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity. They ana...
Multimodal Madness: The Darth Vader Debacle
In our inaugural episode of Pop Goes the Stack, Lori MacVittie and occasional co-host, Joel Moses, dive into the wild world of multimodal AI with guest Aubrey King. Th...