Finally I have some time to write a few lines about my experience at KubeconEU18, which I attended last month in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was not only my first Kubecon, but also my first non-strictly-networking-oriented conference I've ever attended. Have I felt like a fish out of water? Not really, there was plenty of networking... Continue Reading →
Interviewing the interviewer
It must definitely have occured to you (after you took a job somewhere) to have regretted not having done some more due diligence on the company you were about to go to. Recently, I had some discussion with friends and colleagues who asked my opinion on how you could actually understand if the employer is... Continue Reading →
White-boxes for everyone: my point of view.
This post is in reply of Gianpaolo's post "White Boxes for Everyone?" appeared on his blog last November and recently shared by Ivan Pepelnjak. First, let me state that I don't disagree with him nor with Ivan, but I also believe the matter is worth some more in-depth analysis. His thesis is that the whole... Continue Reading →
My first day at Tech Field Days Extra @ Cisco Live 2018
I've been thinking about what to write on my first day of attendance at TFDx. I had so much going on in my tiny and inadequate brain that it's really hard to put things on (digital) paper. I'll start saying that I'm thankful to the staff at GestaltIT for having had the opportunity of attending... Continue Reading →
Networking Field Day @ Cisco Live
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 →
