Blog Post List

Date Post
April 9, 2024 Neo learns NATS.io
March 13, 2024 The bullsh** of AI and LLMs
September 28, 2023 Is GPT & Bard bad for your developer education?
August 28, 2023 International A2P SMS: worth the hassle?
August 15, 2023 Built.fm S01EP08: Mac Martine chats about grit and determination whilst building
August 14, 2023 Built.fm S01EP07: I'm joined by Mat Ryer and Bill Kennedy from the land of Golang!
August 13, 2023 Built.fm S01EP06: Ivan breaks the internet
August 12, 2023 Built.fm S01EP05: With Dagobert Renouf - meme king
August 11, 2023 Built.fm S01EP04: With Ana Bibikova - marketing for statups
August 10, 2023 Built.fm S01EP03: With Rafal Wilinksi
August 9, 2023 Built.fm S01EP02: With Giorgi Mezurnishvili
August 8, 2023 Built.fm S01EP01: Donal O Duibhir on PanSift
March 2, 2023 Signing Git repositories in GitHub
January 16, 2023 Moving up the Stack with NATS
November 1, 2022 Webhook Design Patterns
October 25, 2022 Socket disconnected before secure TLS connection was established
August 2, 2022 AWS Lambda in Go, running locally with SAM and Docker
August 2, 2022 Loosely Coupled API & Client Versioning
August 2, 2022 React & Next.js calling imported JavaScript functions
August 2, 2022 ResetGit.com
July 20, 2022 ArangoDB Summary
July 8, 2022 DDBTools: DynamoDB UpdateItem with Go the easy way
July 6, 2022 Candytext: Building an npm package
July 4, 2022 UI Calendars & Mobiscroll
June 26, 2022 AWS DynamoDB with Indexes & EC2
May 24, 2022 Cloud Ops with Grafana Cloud
March 23, 2022 Making Tailwind Responsive
March 18, 2022 GitHub Deploy Keys and port 443
March 16, 2022 Serverless: Beg Forgiveness Pattern
March 8, 2022 Product Management: The Buy and Whine Cycle
February 17, 2022 Webhooks - Drain Mechanism
November 29, 2021 Handling Commits in Terraform
August 10, 2021 System Architecture - a bell curve based journey
July 26, 2021 Testing Single Page Apps: React front-end & REST back-end APIs
July 14, 2021 AWS DynamoDB Local with AWS Go v2 SDK
April 28, 2021 Workflow Based Automation: Maturity and Abstraction
February 22, 2021 Operationalising your Infrastructure With GraphOps
December 10, 2020 Diary Entry: 2020 Year Wrap
July 20, 2020 Learning Vectors: Automation
July 7, 2020 Importance of Topology in Automation
June 3, 2020 Terraform Example Provider
February 28, 2020 Natural Systems vs Human Fallibility
February 26, 2020 Some Thoughts On Complexity
November 29, 2019 [4/4] Composition & Service Function Chaining in Network Service Meshes
November 29, 2019 [3/4] Composition & Service Function Chaining in Network Service Meshes
November 29, 2019 [2/4] Composition & Service Function Chaining in Network Service Meshes
November 29, 2019 [1/4] Composition & Service Function Chaining in Network Service Meshes
November 23, 2019 Signals, Go & Immutable Infrastructure
October 7, 2019 Multiple Argument Functions
September 20, 2019 Opinionated Automation: Packaged, Extensible & Closed Systems
September 17, 2019 Formalisation of Automation: WIP
September 9, 2019 Replacing a Network Element Config System with Git
July 1, 2019 Leaving Comments in Code Expressed Artefacts
June 7, 2019 Automation Workflow Patterns
April 24, 2019 IaC – unit tests with jSNAPy and Ansible
February 25, 2019 To Code Or Not To Code: Expression & Symbiosis
February 20, 2019 Automation: Tools vs Languages
January 31, 2019 Event-Driven Automation: The TL;DR No One Told You About
January 17, 2019 NAE: Some Help Dealing with Brain Block
January 8, 2019 NAE: Automation and Time
December 5, 2018 XML Unmarshal and XPath
October 23, 2018 YANG, OpenAPI, Swagger and Code Generation
October 19, 2018 Automation: Flow Control & Dimensionality
August 23, 2018 Junos Kafka & InfluxDB Exporters
August 16, 2018 gops & InfluxDB
July 5, 2018 iNOG-10 & RIPE-Hackathon
June 26, 2018 Automation for Success
June 14, 2018 Automation for Reliability
June 7, 2018 Juniper vQFX10K on ESXi 6.5
May 23, 2018 Configuring SSL for gRPC on Junos
April 24, 2018 goFAL - File Abstraction in Go
April 22, 2018 Describing Network Automation: Automate the Coffee
April 5, 2018 Juniper JET & Golang
February 20, 2018 Automation: Easy Button vs Sentient Voodoo Magic Button
February 6, 2018 Ubuntu 16.04 git lfs broken install
December 11, 2017 A Christmas Support Story
November 19, 2017 Control: Proof-of-Concepts
October 30, 2017 Targeted Learning for Automation
October 17, 2017 Cloud Native: Upgrading a Workflow Engine or Orchestrator
October 16, 2017 Some Thoughts on Leaky Abstractions
October 13, 2017 Network Automation Engineer Persona: Part Four
October 12, 2017 Network Automation Engineer Persona: Part Three
October 10, 2017 Network Automation Engineer Persona: Part Two
October 9, 2017 Network Automation Engineer Persona: Part One
September 15, 2017 Ghost2logger Design - Part One
September 11, 2017 Declarative and Imperative Automation Thinking
July 31, 2017 Automation and State
July 19, 2017 Golang magic, package level vars, init, Init and global state
June 27, 2017 Fun with Iota
June 3, 2017 Ultimate Go, Ardanlabs, Training Course Writeup
May 9, 2017 Workflow Enhanced Networking (WEN)
May 2, 2017 StackStorm: Ghost2logger Pack
March 25, 2017 Developing Software The Right Way, with Intent and Carefulness
March 20, 2017 NFS For Network Engineers
March 15, 2017 Linux Systemd & Golang Services using Kardianos Service
February 27, 2017 Python: Real World Hacking on StackStorm (Network Engineer Focussed)
February 4, 2017 Automation: Build or Consume?
November 3, 2016 OpenStack Summit Barcelona 2016: Current State
October 3, 2016 Discussing Disruption to IT
September 29, 2016 NFV, Skills & Mutable vs. Immutable Infrastructure
July 3, 2016 Golang: Exercising pointers, interfaces, functions and wrapping
June 21, 2016 Simplify Simplify Simplify In Sales
May 23, 2016 Golang net package: UDP Client with Specific Source Port
January 20, 2016 Open Networking: The Eject Button
December 18, 2015 Business Titles: CEO, Founder, Managing Director, Proprietor
December 16, 2015 How to not present to the Swiss
November 3, 2015 OpenStack Summit, Tokyo 2015, Thursday 29th – Show Notes
November 2, 2015 OpenStack Summit, Tokyo 2015, Wednesday 28th – Show Notes
October 27, 2015 OpenStack Summit, Tokyo 2015, Tuesday 27th – Show Notes
October 18, 2015 Education for SDN from the ONF
September 16, 2015 Killer SDN Applications: A view in 2015
August 11, 2015 Working From Home On 4G
July 9, 2015 NetDevOps: Delivering Network Levers
May 14, 2015 Validating and Searching JSON
April 20, 2015 Junos Export Policy Not Working?
April 7, 2015 Git For Network Engineers
April 7, 2015 The Zen of Sailing Through IT Projects
March 9, 2015 Cisco Live Europe 2015 – and the year ahead
February 2, 2015 Multigigabit Ethernet 2.5 / 5.0Gbps NBASE-T Alliance
January 26, 2015 Coding Basics: Python in Visual Studio
November 18, 2014 Python: Building a simple NETCONF RPC Tool
November 16, 2014 Custom Python Packages With PyPi For Networking Peoples
October 7, 2014 White Box Switching: Broadcom StrataXGS Tomahawk
October 3, 2014 IPv6 Adoption in the UK
September 30, 2014 Network Automation & Controller Questionnaire
September 25, 2014 Big Switch Tap Fabric
September 22, 2014 White Box Switching: Goodbye Trident II, Hello Cavium XPliant
September 22, 2014 Cisco ACI: Allowing the smarts to scale
September 20, 2014 Network Field Day 8 – #NFD8
September 8, 2014 Network Aware Software: Rubbish idea or OpenDayLight Function?
August 26, 2014 Network Automation: DevOps vs NetOps and the right tools
August 6, 2014 Network Automation: Shifting Fear Landscape
July 21, 2014 DevOps Will Adopt Networking
July 18, 2014 NetDevOps – The Journey Begins
June 22, 2014 VXLAN MTU vs IP MTU Consideration
June 18, 2014 Cognitively Adjusted Networking
May 24, 2014 Using the Juniper PyEZ Library [Beginner]
May 24, 2014 CLI Scraping with Python
May 24, 2014 Using Cisco’s onePK with Python [Beginner]
May 24, 2014 From CLI to Py(thon) [Beginner]
April 6, 2014 Objectifying the network using Python [Part One]
April 4, 2014 CLEUR, OpFLEX, User Interface and Paradigm Shift
October 15, 2013 IPv4 and IPv6 Global Multicast Addressing
September 22, 2013 What are VRFs?
June 18, 2013 Junos Stretch VLAN Using SRX Branch – who needs Cisco’s OTV?
May 3, 2013 Cloud Fog – Automation and Ruby step 1 with Junos
October 3, 2012 Business Acumen in Networking
October 3, 2012 F-VRF IPsec
September 25, 2012 Skilled Teams and the not so skilled
September 20, 2012 Cisco ME3750 – EoMPLS over ES ports