Event-Driven Automation: The TL;DR No One Told You About
Event-Driven automation is an umbrella term much like “coffee” (also see here, it turns out I’ve used coffee anecdotes way too much).
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NAE: Some Help Dealing with Brain Block
For years, thanks to the gift of misaligned perception, I’ve been mentally blocked.
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NAE: Automation and Time
Time is the enemy of everything in the field of IT.
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XML Unmarshal and XPath
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.
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YANG, OpenAPI, Swagger and Code Generation
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.
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Automation: Flow Control & Dimensionality
Human beings as we are, struggle sometimes to think multi-dimensionally about tasks.
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Junos Kafka & InfluxDB Exporters
This post acts as the introduction for two other posts, which cover Junos data collection tools for Kafka and InfluxDB.
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gops & InfluxDB
What can I say, I’m paranoid about reliability and things working how they were designed to.
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iNOG-10 & RIPE-Hackathon
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.
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