Webhooks are the sticky tape of system integration and how you deal with them is key to ensuring a happy system.

Since 2018, I’ve been working in the guts of Terraform, trying to find wide encompassing ways of building providers for Junos.

If programming is a gymnastics team sport, then architecture is the balance beam.

For my side projects, I’ve been working towards a nice modular unit of scale, in which a compute unit (VM) delivers services glued together by the excellent NATs.

A Penny Drops Other than virtual machines serving functions I can’t live without (Docker, CCTV, file storage etc), I begrudge turning more servers on because the hassle outweighs the gain.

This short post discusses maturity of automation based on workflow meta-data and proposes that we start tagging workflows, or workflow south-bound interface (SBI) plugins with leaky requirements.