You say 4 billion addresses. I say its less than the 7 billion people on our planet. And welcome to the internet-of-things. If you add up everything on the planet that would need an IP by the end of the decade, 7 billion wont cut it either.
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The Era of Network-Modeling
In a stable Network, the state and intent are converged. From the perspective of Monitoring, the State is always the source-of-truth. Anything that should be monitored…
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Thinking beyond Network Automation
Network architects often seem to be at a loss for words when asked to describe Network Automation. This is understandable though. Automation is a broad subject. From provisioning, to telemetry and monitoring, there are several faces to automation.
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nginx upstream timeout and php5-fpm
Ever since I’d moved my hosting from vanilla EC2 to docker, I’d been getting plagued by timeouts between NGINX and php-fpm. At first, the issue appeared to be on the fpm side, as these NGINX error-logs showed.
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Network Automation and Endian
These days, however, my first few interview questions are usually about Automation, and conceptualization of a Network as a data model. After all, Routing protocols are just software implementation of some algorithm on steroids.
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So I’ve decided to work on my CCIE (again!)
Being that this is the year of SDN, and very few people can refrain from tossing in some kind of SDN related acronym at every meeting, I decided to take a break from the SDN chit-chat and delve into pure networking for a bit (if thats even possible.)
Perhaps I’ll go for a certification, or two.
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