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dinesh dutt in The Elegant Network

May 26, 2021

Closing the Loop on Testing Network Changes

“..the best way to guard against error is to design systems with layered and…

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dinesh dutt in The Elegant Network

Jan 12, 2021

Screencasting Path in Suzieq

A new year, a new medium.

One of the fringe benefits of choosing Streamlit is that it natively supports creating screencasts. For me, a toddler at best when it comes creating video content (my dad is better than I am at this), this was a useful feature…

dinesh dutt in The Elegant Network

Sep 24, 2020

The Many Uses of Network Observability

[This post is jointly written by Justin Pietsch and Dinesh Dutt].

Observability is an important concept in distributed systems these days. It is taken from control systems, which has a very precise mathematical definition. From…

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dinesh dutt in The Elegant Network

Sep 7, 2020

A Tale of Five Python SSH Libraries

In Suzieq, we needed to select a python library to fetch data from network devices (and servers) via SSH. This led us to a search for and evaluation of five SSH libraries. which I thought were the most suitable for the task at hand.

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dinesh dutt in The Elegant Network

Aug 28, 2020

Implementing IP LPM in Pandas

Longest Prefix Match (LPM) is the algorithm used in IP networks to forward packets. The algorithm is used…

Justin Pietsch in The Elegant Network

Aug 21, 2020

Lessons from load balancers and multicast

In general I dislike operating load balancers and IP multicast: I’m a network engineer. Load balancers and IP multicast are very complicated, have a large amount of state, and they are hard to understand and debug. They lead to a lot of operational issues…

Justin Pietsch in The Elegant Network

Aug 14, 2020

What I’ve learned about scaling OSPF in Datacenters

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dinesh dutt in The Elegant Network

May 5, 2020

Time in Suzieq

Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, while I looked around for my possibilities
— Simon & Garfunkel

dinesh dutt in The Elegant Network

May 1, 2020

Output of interface show for virtual networks

Five Questions to Suzieq

In this continuing series of posts on Suzieq, we’ll look at 5 questions to which Suzieq can provide answers

dinesh dutt in The Elegant Network

Apr 28, 2020

Welcome to Suzieq

”Observation, not old age, brings wisdom” — Publilius Syrus

In the time that we have both collectively spent in the industry, one on the vendor side and the other on the operator side, one of the lasting impressions on both of us is the paucity of tools that a network…

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