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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Category: Network Automation
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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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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MySQL InnoDB Performance: Scaling inserts.
Can MySQL scale?? … For that reason, Can any DB scale?
This architecture holds roughly 4 terabytes of data, hosted in AWS now… and writing away from several TimeSeries collectors.
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