Meter sets the bar for Network-as-a-Service
TLDR; Keep your eye on Meter, a Network-as-a-Service company with a vision so far in the future that it seems nearly impossible, yet they are actively...
October 15, 2024
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The network digital twin GOAT
In its most rudimentary terms, a digital twin in the realm of networking is the concept of emulating or simulating a like-for-like topology of a production...
March 25, 2024
Selector is evolving the way we operate networks
The topic of AI in the networking space has quickly moved from “what if” to “how soon”. Every major networking vendor is leveraging some aspect of...
February 15, 2023
Brief: When to consider Anuta Networks for automation
Most network automation journeys start with building custom scripts and integrations, validating use cases, and getting value from low-hanging fruit. This is the fun part! However,...
February 1, 2023
Evolved on-prem networking with Netris
Network engineers, even those that have adopted a developer mentality, often struggle with getting to that next evolution of self-service in on-premises data centers. We have...
May 23, 2022
Terraform an HA-VPN between GCP and Cisco
Doing Infrastucture-as-Code (IaC) with Ansible has given me a headache – so I’ve recently been playing around with Terraform as an alternative to Ansible for certain...
April 3, 2020
Using Ansible and NetBox to deploy EVPN on Arista
Ansible, Nornir, and other automation frameworks are excellent for generating and deploying configurations in an automated fashion. In Ansible, you can run a playbook, loop through...
February 7, 2020
Applying Essentialism to certifications and skills development in the Tech Industry
We often compare ourselves to others around us. We are impressed with the skills others possess, the content others produce, the appearances others maintain, the successes...
June 24, 2019
Becoming an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Architecting for the cloud is becoming a highly desired skill set. Working as a consultant, I’m often in situations where clients are overwhelmed with questions about...
May 16, 2019
Arista BGP EVPN – Ansible Lab
In the previous two blog posts, I covered the concepts of EVPN and shared a detailed configuration example on Arista EOS. In this blog post, I’ll...
February 19, 2019
