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.
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…

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.

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.
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.