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since 2008 · 158 posts · 14 series
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Networking Field Day 40

Live coverage from Networking Field Day 40. Vendor pitches, AI-era networking, and what actually held up to scrutiny.

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Upscale AI at NFD40: The Pitch Before the Product
2026.06.02

Learn

Multi-part teaching series, meant to be read in order. The evergreen stuff. Start here.

Automation & Tools 1 part

Git for Network Engineers

Git explained for people who manage configs, not codebases. From your first commit to rebasing like you mean it.

start reading → 2026.05.28
Networking 5 parts

BGP Essentials

The BGP path-manipulation toolkit. Communities, AS-path filtering, and multipath load balancing, the way you actually use them.

start reading → 2015.02.10
Automation & Tools 2 parts

Regular Expressions

Regular expressions from the ground up, then put to work matching and filtering on Cisco IOS.

start reading → 2010.05.16
Automation & Tools 2 parts

Vim for Network Engineers

Just enough Vim to stop fighting the one editor that's always already on the box.

start reading → 2012.08.21

Industry

Coverage from Tech Field Day events and the vendor world. Episodic, occasionally important.

Networking 4 parts

Networking Field Day 15

Delegate notes from Networking Field Day 15. Network analytics, NSX, and the vendors worth a second look.

start reading → 2017.08.01
Networking 3 parts

Networking Field Day 13

Notes from Networking Field Day 13. Formal verification, network visibility, and tap-the-planet ambitions.

start reading → 2017.02.15
Networking 8 parts

Networking Field Day 2

Delegate coverage from Networking Field Day 2. Vendor presentations and takeaways from an earlier Tech Field Day.

start reading → 2011.11.16

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