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 →
Today I posted this picture below on LinkedIn saying how cool http://neo4j.com/ is. Some of my connections asked me to elaborate so here I am. The requirement You know how I love 'requirements', right? What's mine? I am building for a project at work a Python/Ansible automation framework for a DC Network Fabric. I have done... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
