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Back to SearchHN729: Open Source to Closed
Episode 729
With “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” as his guide, Srivats launched Ostinato, his open source project, in 2010. He needed an affordable network traffi…
1 year, 9 months ago
HN728: How Drivenets Leverages Ethernet Fabrics For AI Networking (Sponsored)
Episode 728
To run AI workloads, a network needs thousands of GPUs and those GPUs must operate in sync. If there is congestion or dropped frames, very expensive …
1 year, 9 months ago
HN727: Kubernetes Networking Essentials
Episode 727
Where there are containers, there is networking. Today we dig into the networking that underlies Kubernetes, the open source orchestration platform f…
1 year, 9 months ago
HN726: From Automation to Orchestration for a FinTech Network (Sponsored)
Episode 726
Fiserv is one of the largest payment processors in the world, In 2023 it handled more than 35 billion transactions worth $2.03 trillion US dollars. I…
1 year, 9 months ago
HN725: Standing up a DC Network Using Terraform
Episode 725
Matt Horn built a data center network through automation, remotely. This is the future of network engineering. Matt shares how his team did it techni…
1 year, 10 months ago
HN724: How Packets Move Through a Network Device
Episode 724
Today we metaphorically pop open the hood of switches and routers, taking a look at the mechanics of how they work. We cover the three states: config…
1 year, 10 months ago
HN723: ‘It’s like Legos’: Developing a Network Automation Framework
Episode 723
Right now, we have the building blocks for network automation, but we don’t have end-to-end designs or complete systems. It’s like having a bunch of …
1 year, 10 months ago
HN722: Ivan Pepelnjak’s Netlab Eliminates the Tedious Bits of Labbing
Episode 722
One dark day, Ivan Pepelnjak stopped labbing. He just couldn’t make himself yet again go through assigning addresses, building links, putting devices…
1 year, 10 months ago
HN721: Goodbye Network Cowboys, Hello Total Network Operations
Episode 721
The days of network cowboy heroism are over… or at least they need to be. It’s time for network engineering to grow up and standardize how networks a…
1 year, 11 months ago
What Yale Learned about RADIUS Load Balancing
Episode 720
Yale’s efforts to load-balance RADIUS servers is a case study in system design for resiliency. First, there was a lone, redundant PSN. Next, F5s load…
1 year, 11 months ago