You’ve probably heard people say that networks are too complex and need to be made simpler. I certainly believe that. I think people build too complicated networks and not enough consider how hard it will be to operate those…
I started in networking at Amazon in the fall of 2002. When we were paged for a problem it was because one of the users/services on the network was having problems and they thought it was the network. We never knew ourselves that the network was broken until…
Do you ask “Is my network healthy?” Do you know how to answer that question well? This is a critical question, but a hard and confusing one to answer well. It’s also one that I think most people don’t explicitly ask and should. As a network engineer, what does it even mean that the…
“..the best way to guard against error is to design systems with layered and…
Getting the network out of the way has been very important for me in my thinking about networks, and is an easy way to help talk about a bunch of very important concepts, decisions, and arguments. This can sound trite, obvious, or insulting. In this post I’ll try to describe…
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…
We haven’t blogged for three months. We’ve been busy working on Suzieq, adding features and figuring out where we want it to go…
