“There must be a better way!” is guest Bart Dorlandt’s motto, which he applies to network automation, among other things. In today’s episode, Bart shares what he’s learned about network automation, explains why he focuses on process over tools, and reflects on the …

With the automation around configuration generation and deployment already in place. It was the desire to present back to the customer that the BGP prefixes configured to be advertised were arrived as such. Though not only that, but also accepted through the policy.

I will take you on the journey …

For those without children, you might never have realized that having a project is much like a child. At the same, for those with children, you may never have the time or piece of mind to realize it.

I’ll take you through a walk of life on ‘creating’ your child(ren), how to deal …

During the python meetup there was room for some 5 minute lightning talks. I stepped up and shared my findings on poetry and uv, and the challenging with migrating from poetry to uv. Because of this challenge I’ve written a tool to help with that migration. Allowing to pass in the current …

What building cars can teach us about building software and BMP

In the late 19th century, two industrial titans were born within a few months of each other but an ocean apart. Both of these men, Henry Royce and Henry Ford, were obsessed with precision engineering and, fortunately for many of us, …

The BGP Monitoring Protocol, or BMP, is an IETF standard. With BMP you can send BGP prefixes and updates from a router to a collector before any policy filters are applied. Once collected, you can analyze this routing data without any impact on the router itself. On today’s Heavy Networking, …

parenting 101

For those without children, you might never have realized that having a project is much like a child. At the same, for those with children, you may never have the time or piece of mind to realize it.

I’ll take you through a walk of life on ‘creating’ your child(ren), …