Blog for Technologists

TL;DR: I’m a technical omnivore, reading content across typical boundaries. The following is a tale of caution: developing apps for the Cloud is different than for in-data center. Let me [...]

The title of this blog article may well be nothing new in your life. Or it may be something you and your company have discovered the hard way, evolving the [...]

I’ve had the pleasure of working at several organizations, large and small, from internal IT roles and outside consulting positions, and have noted that the cultural structure of IT architecture [...]

TL;DR: pyATS is an automation testing framework that includes a parsing library called Genie. With over 1500 parsers available, Genie can parse device output from multiple vendors, including Cisco, Juniper, [...]

I try to think outside the box at times. Perhaps a bad habit, waste of cycles. This is a quick note with some thoughts (crystal ball time). Possibly provocative or [...]

Note: This blog was originally published in January 2017 and has been updated. “No man is an island.”  – John Donne This is from a famous poem (Devotions upon Emergent Occasions) [...]

This blog is an update on what the recent startup Graphiant brings to WAN networking. See also the launch blog from NFD29. From what I hear, Graphiant is growing by [...]

A recent blog was titled Doing IP Addressing Right. This blog does something similar for IP Routing. TL;DR: What are some goals for IP routing, common approaches, and how do [...]

Two of my daughters are twins, and they’re active online, so they are arguably digital twins. However, this blog will not be about them. TL;DR: Like other phrases that people [...]

In my years of consulting, I’ve run across some interesting IP addressing schemes. “Interesting” as in “yuck” or “hot steaming mess.” You may have too. In fact, you may have [...]

NetCraftsmen is currently working with a customer with some interesting problems. I’d like to share some thoughts and lessons learned. Cheap Is Sometimes Not This first item is arguably obvious, [...]

The blogging part of my brain seems to be stuck on security lately. Apparently because somewhat similar topics keep coming up in discussions with customers or my NetCraftsmen peers. This [...]