It's day 2 of #NFD20 here in San Jose (CA), and the weather outside is dreadful (not really the sunny California you usually picture). Inside the meeting room where the magic of Networking Field Days happens, it's a very sunny day. After many months of mystery, Snaproute finally announced their CN-NOS (Cloud Native NOS) and... Continue Reading →
Peter Sprygada needs no introductions. His presentation on the afternoon of day 2 at NFD18 was the highlight of day 2. He spent good two hours in RedHat offices in Sunnyvale (CA), flooding us with his usual enthusiasm talking about Ansible Network Engine and its exciting new features that are just round the corner. What... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
