Blog for Technologists

I have followed Brighten Godfrey (Technical Director at VMware and Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) for a while. Brighten was the key technical person behind Veriflow, similar [...]

I had the privilege of attending the inaugural AutoCon0 conference in Denver, CO, hosted by the Network Automation Forum (NAF) in November 2023. There was a lot of buzz about [...]

I just HAD to write this blog, given the title idea! More seriously, several themes in networking and automation are coming together: the overall troubleshooting picture is getting less fuzzy? [...]

There’s a lot of good stuff happening in the various tech areas I’m tracking. Among others, thank you, GestaltIT/TechFieldDay for all the great presentations. I’ve got quite a backlog of [...]

Life used to be simple. Or so we fondly think (details and pain tend to vanish in the rear-view mirror). This blog looks at some of the design aspects around [...]

This is a brief blog about some Security disconnects I’ve noticed. The cause is different stages of Cyber Security awareness. However, I suspect it is more the right hand not [...]

Since Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic for a while, I should be blogging about it. Specifically, AI’s use in Ops, aka “AIOps.” Hence, this blog. What Can [...]

Cisco has produced a containerized version of the ASA firewall code, suitable for running in Catalyst 9K switches. It is something to factor into your design thinking. This blog is [...]

Whether you’re adding initial or additional segmentation to a Cisco-based campus network or using Cisco Security Group Tags or SGTs, there are some design basics to consider. (Alternative usage: SGT [...]

I’ve been pondering why this feels like we had a relatively quiet tech summer and fall so far. Is there more to it than tech companies and startups dialing back [...]

I’ve  noticed recently that blog and “news” topics etc., that I’ve been seeing have changed. So, I started trying to figure out what’s different and why. This blog discusses some [...]

BlueAlly/NetCraftsmen’s Joel King has been experimenting with tools from pangea.cloud. This blog tells you about that. Thanks to Joel for his Pangea testing efforts, his review of this blog, and [...]