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2026.05.26 Automation & Tools 10 min read

Selector at NFD40: Show Your Work

Most “AI-powered observability” pitches you sit through ask you to trust the model.

2026.05.19 Automation & Tools 9 min read

Networks Are Graphs. NetAI Acts Like It.

Dr. Deepak Kakadia got about ninety seconds into his NFD40 talk before he said the thing nobody else on the AI Ops circuit is willing to say out loud. LLMs were invented to model human behavior.

2026.04.30 Switching 6 min read

Ethernet Commoditizes Everything. Except EOS

Halfway through Tom Emmons’ scale-out segment at NFD40, a fellow delegate looked at Arista’s load-balancing slide and said what most of us were thinking… this could have any vendor’s logo on it.

2026.04.15 Routing 7 min read

Nokia at NFD40: Networking in the AI Era

I’ve been building networks for nearly thirty years. I understand leaf-spine fabrics, BGP design, VRF isolation, ECMP, and congestion management.