A Network Engineering Blog
Straight from the console. Minimal vendor fluff, plenty of opinionated rants.
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CHI-NOG 13
Two days at CHI-NOG 13 in Chicago. Hands-on RPKI, Nokia AI fabric labs, IPv6, and the operator talks worth showing up for.
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Multi-part teaching series, meant to be read in order. The evergreen stuff. Start here.
Git for Network Engineers
Git explained for people who manage configs, not codebases. From your first commit to rebasing like you mean it.
BGP Essentials
The BGP path-manipulation toolkit. Communities, AS-path filtering, and multipath load balancing, the way you actually use them.
Regular Expressions
Regular expressions from the ground up, then put to work matching and filtering on Cisco IOS.
Vim for Network Engineers
Just enough Vim to stop fighting the one editor that's always already on the box.
Industry
Coverage from Tech Field Day events and the vendor world. Episodic, occasionally important.
Networking Field Day 40
Live coverage from Networking Field Day 40. Vendor pitches, AI-era networking, and what actually held up to scrutiny.
Networking Field Day 15
Delegate notes from Networking Field Day 15. Network analytics, NSX, and the vendors worth a second look.
Networking Field Day 13
Notes from Networking Field Day 13. Formal verification, network visibility, and tap-the-planet ambitions.
Networking Field Day 2
Delegate coverage from Networking Field Day 2. Vendor presentations and takeaways from an earlier Tech Field Day.