A loosely structured roundtable on why network automation adoption is still stuck, how AI affects infrastructure teams, and what conferences and communities should give their attendees. Brian looks back on organizing the first CPH^Automate, John pushes back on the idea that network engineers …

I joined Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray on Heavy Networking to talk about the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP): how service providers use it in real life, and what the architecture behind it looks like.

We covered how I collect the data, why capturing routes both pre- and post-policy matters, how to …

Can you trust your data?

In this talk we’ll take a real life use case where the flexibility desires and time have gotten the best of it. What happens when you deal with “freedom” data? How to go from this to a better future?

It is a technical talk how we recognise changes are …

Everyone says network engineers need to automate. Learn Python. Learn Ansible. Build a source of truth. Learn Git. Test your changes. Stop doing everything manually.

There’s just one problem: when?

At AutoCon 5 in Munich, Andy Lapteff sat down with Dutch network automation consultants Bart …

NLNAM is a volunteer-run, community-driven meetup for network engineers, DevOps practitioners, and software developers modernizing infrastructure through code — covering topics like Infrastructure as Code, Source of Truth, config management, network programming, monitoring & observability, cloud …

Nine network automation engineers convene for a roundtable examining AI’s practical effects on the field. Topics include how AI functions as a productivity multiplier rather than a replacement technology, the shift from code generation to verification responsibilities, workplace pressure from …

“There must be a better way!” is guest Bart Dorlandt’s motto, which he applies to network automation, among other things. In today’s episode, Bart shares what he’s learned about network automation, explains why he focuses on process over tools, and reflects on the …

With the automation around configuration generation and deployment already in place. It was the desire to present back to the customer that the BGP prefixes configured to be advertised were arrived as such. Though not only that, but also accepted through the policy.

I will take you on the journey …

What building cars can teach us about building software and BMP

In the late 19th century, two industrial titans were born within a few months of each other but an ocean apart. Both of these men, Henry Royce and Henry Ford, were obsessed with precision engineering and, fortunately for many of us, …