Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBoring Network Design Is Good
Episode 821
Ethan Banks sits down with Ryan Hamel at the 96th North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG96). Ryan, a network automation developer for the Zay…
13 hours ago
Cyber Week 2026 Wrap Up with Palo Alto Networks: Agents, Prisma AIRS and NGTS (Sponsored)
Episode 820
Palo Alto Networks released a slew of product news at the 2026 RSA conference around AI security, SASE, and a new certificate lifecycle management of…
1 week ago
Recipes for Automation - A Look Inside Eric Chou's AI Networking Cookbook
Episode 819
Eric Chou, author of the AI Networking Cookbook and host of Network Automation Nerds, joins Ethan and Drew to discuss adding artificial intelligence …
2 weeks ago
Introducing LIM: A Large Infrastructure Model for Multi-Cloud Terraform Migration (Sponsored)
Episode 818
One of the early promises of public cloud was that, in theory, you could move workloads from Cloud Provider A to Cloud Provider B for any number of r…
3 weeks ago
Is There a Better Way to Do Software Defined Networking?
Episode 817
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a centralized architecture in which a controller, or a hierarchy of controllers, runs software that computes net…
4 weeks ago
Inside the Case: A Hardware Deep Dive with Meter (Sponsored)
Episode 816
Our topic today is the designing and building of high-performance networking hardware. If you assume the hardware details don’t matter, you’re missin…
1 month, 1 week ago
All About PCE
Episode 815
Traditional routing protocols like OSPF simply choose the “shortest” path. If the shortest path is full of traffic and there are alternate paths carr…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Automating Your Network with Cisco Crosswork Workflow Manager (Sponsored)
Episode 814
Our topic today is building and running network workflows. If your network workflows live in a spreadsheet, a SharePoint document, or in your head, y…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
What Should Networkers Know About Software Development (and Vice Versa)?
Episode 813
What should network engineers know about software development? What should software developers know about networking? Ethan and Drew sit down with Ch…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Nokia EDA: AI Ops You Can Trust (Sponsored)
Episode 812
AI is everywhere in networking right now, but most of it feels like hype. In this sponsored episode, we go deeper than buzzwords with Steven Butler f…
2 months ago