Git for Network Engineers, Part 1: From Zero to Your First Pull Request
Last Tuesday you made changes to a playbook because the on-call engineer needed an ACL pushed in a hurry.
Automation
Selector at NFD40: Show Your Work
Most “AI-powered observability” pitches you sit through ask you to trust the model.
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.
AI Networks Can't Use SDN. Netris Built What's Next.
Alex Saroyan had about ninety seconds onstage before he made the architectural claim that the rest of the AI-networking conversation has been ducking.
AI NOC, Not AI-on-NOC: Aviz Flips the Stack
Thomas Scheibe walked on stage and said the quiet part out loud.
Networking Field Day 40 – Back at it again
I’m Heading to Networking Field Day 40 I’m excited to announce that I’ve been selected as a delegate for Networking Field Day 40, taking place April 8–10, 2026 in Silicon Valley.
5 important reasons you should learn scripting
Today’s IT landscape if full of software defined marketecture, and lore of a dystopian future full of network engineers that do nothing but write code.
Working with the Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
Cisco IOS has plenty of gems contained within, but few are as fun, and as endlessly useful as the Embedded Event Manager, or EEM.
Using the Cisco IOS Archive Command
The Cisco IOS archive command is not only very useful in keeping configuration archives, but it can also be used to log commands entered into the router, along with their user name.