Hi all, I'm not sure whether I mentioned this before or not. Anyhow...next week I'll have the pleasure to attend the famous "Networking Field Days" event, hosted by Cisco at the Cisco Live Europe in Barcelona. "Networking Field Day is an in-person, and live-streaming event that is held twice per year. We bring together the best... Continue Reading →
Innovation and culture of failure
Hi all, here I am again talking anything but networking. Sorry but I can't help it, these things really get me excited. I've been reading two AMAZING books that I wholeheartedly recommend you all to read: Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success - Matthew Syed The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of... Continue Reading →
Forget the buzzwords, focus on self-transformation
These days I'm dealing on a daily basis with Intent-based networking (we can debate as long as you want about what that means or doesn't, but that's not my point), SDN and Cloud. I know they all sound buzzword-y, but - hey ho - that's actually what I'm doing (LBaaS, NaaS, Openstack Neutron, BGP+EVPN, etc).... Continue Reading →
Configuration simplification courtesy of Cumulus Linux
Hello all. I like when people call me "evangelist", although it sounds a bit too presumptuous and pretentious. "Evangelist" - from the ancient greek euangelizesthai - means "bringer of good news", and tonight I'm doing exactly that. We live in the era of network automation, where we're all told to automate everything from the morning... Continue Reading →
#nofomo anymore
Hello all, as you know very well, one of the most difficult challenges of our jobs is how to keep up with the evolutions and progress of our industry. Very often we suffer from severe FOMO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out) - at least I do, as the amount of new technologies and new stuff that make it to... Continue Reading →
After a few months of silence, I'm back guys! I came across something super interesting last week, which I have been hearing about for a while, but never had the chance to investigate. Everyone: assume you are sitting in the NOC, on a night-shift, and a failure occurs. I.e. packet loss from endpoint A to... Continue Reading →
Basic skills – Where art thou?
Yeah, I am on gardening leave (watch this space for news soon), and this is a perfect time to purge my backlog of articles on my to-read list. I stumbled on this one: Learn Programming or Perish (?) by the brilliant Matt Oswalt and I suddenly felt that the feeling I've been having for a... Continue Reading →
Vendor lock-in effect and the SDN hype
I keep hearing people telling me: "I want to go SDN and orchestrate my network to get rid of this horrible vendor lock-in, so that we can buy any boxes we want in the future, no matter the supplier. To do that we bought Contrail." Well... To me that's vendor lock-in. Don't get me wrong:... Continue Reading →
The 6 pillars of DevOps
Ok. I lied. In my last post, I promised I would have got back to you with more on the "6 pillars of DevOps". I lied because I completely made up that number. I also feel a bit disappointed because after I finished writing up the last blog post, I figured there's more than gazillion... Continue Reading →
