Time is the enemy of everything in the field of IT.

Battling with data structures is a normal daily task and figuring out the best way manipulate XML isn’t just a case of writing something that works and walking away declaring job done.

Sometimes during exploration or projects, I want to take a YANG model and convert it along with related dependencies to a Swagger format (think OpenAPI if you’re not familiar with this) so I can create a REST or RESTConf API interface.

Human beings as we are, struggle sometimes to think multi-dimensionally about tasks.

This post acts as the introduction for two other posts, which cover Junos data collection tools for Kafka and InfluxDB.

What can I say, I’m paranoid about reliability and things working how they were designed to.