Week of 24th June 2019 was interesting. We had #ferrogate which made a lot of network engineers very unhappy and also an ongoing social media thread on code comments.

Workflows vary from seriously simple to notoriously complex and as humans, we might not even consciously observe the subtleties of what a workflow comprises of.

JSNAPY is an open source tool released by Juniper Networks circa 2015 that is the Python version of the Juniper Snapshot Administrator.

There is still an ongoing debate over the need for network engineers to pick up some software skills.

When it comes to expressing intent in automation workflows, there is validation in both using a task or workflow engine and also knocking it together using scripting in some language.

Event-Driven automation is an umbrella term much like “coffee” (also see here, it turns out I’ve used coffee anecdotes way too much).

For years, thanks to the gift of misaligned perception, I’ve been mentally blocked.

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.