@showipintbri The more you improve OSPF, the more you get IS-IS.

Join me, Brooks Westbrook, and Russ White for a chat about testing: rule11.tech/hedge-133-broo…

Hedge 134: Ten Things rule11.tech/hedge-134-ten-…

Had lots of fun podcasting with Russ White and Tom Ammon about China's IPv6 ambitions and how they tell a tale about the global fight over tech standards. Also why I will never again try to explain cricket to Americans - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chi…

By age 30 you should have a group of friends that talk you out of distributed systems

Fantastic article from Eyvonne Sharp : esharp.net/the-work-we-wa…. I especially appreciated her thoughts around making the people and systems around you better, definitely worth a read!

Master Foo and the Recruiter catb.org/~esr/writings/…

Hedge 147: The SRE with Niall Murphy (part 1) rule11.tech/hedge-147/

You can either deal with stuff tactically a thousand times, or deal with it at the systems level. It feels like more work to go the systems thinking route, but I can assure you it's not. It's not by a long shot.

WEmulate v2 is released 🥳🍻 WEmulate is a simple and modern open source WAN emulator. Besides the Wemulate module, an API and a frontend module are also available. github.com/wemulate/wemul…

"I'm gonna get this perfect!" Perfect for...what? A changing world and problem set where that perfect match won't last anyway? The vast majority of the time, your design is against a target that shifts over time and chasing perfection is a waste of energy. Be practical too.

Hedge 149: Roundtable rule11.tech/hedge-149-roun…

Hedge 151: Cecilia Testart and the Value of the RPKI rule11.tech/hedge-151-ceci…

Hedge 153: Security Perceptions and Multicloud Roundtable rule11.tech/hedge-153/

Original: "EVPN-VXLAN is complicated. We'll use Ansible to automate it so we don't have to worry about it." Translated: "LOL, we can fix this gearbox by dumping a bag of wrenches into it."

A while back I got interviewed on The Hedge podcast about Jurassic Cloud, old interfaces and the evolution of compute landscape. Sadly I neglected to tweet about it 🤦🏻‍♀️ 10x Tom Ammon Russ White rule11.tech/hedge-160/

Computers only have a history stretching back some 60 or 70 years—and yet much of that history has already been lost in this mist of time. Are we focusing so deeply on the future that we have forgotten our past? What might we learn from the past, even the recent past, and how

When network engineers think of a data center, we think of fabrics and routers and switches. There is a lot more to a data center, though—there is power, building construction, environmentals, and a lot of others. What possible jobs are out there in the data center space

Gaze not into the abyss, lest you become recognized as an abyss domain expert, and they expect you keep gazing into the damn thing.