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.

In June 2018, I was lucky enough to attend the iNOG::10 session in Dublin, co-present a talk and also take part in the RIPE hackathon.

Businesses with high growth, complex tasks and repetition, tend to rely on or require automation to fulfill business challenges.

Statistics says, the more often you do something, the higher the chances of a negative event occurring when you do it.

A quick and dirty post on running the Juniper vQFX on VMWare ESXi.

This is a short article on creating a self-signed root certificate which can be used to self-sign certificates for the purposes of treating our telemetry and instrumentation exploration with the security love it deserves.