I mentioned in my last post that I would start updating practical use cases for generative AI. The first example use case is your project documentation. As software engineers, we spend days of our lives writing project docs. The reality is that people learn and consume data differently. Overly detailed docs may cause some people’s… Continue reading ChatGPT your Project Docs
AI, LLMs and Networking
[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”]AI, LLM and Networking[/fancy_header3] Bill Gates recently described the development of AI as a creation as fundamental as the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. He is most likely right. OpenAI found that around 80% of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10% of their work tasks affected by… Continue reading AI, LLMs and Networking
Getting Started with the Rust Programming Language
[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”]Getting Started with the Rust Programming Language[/fancy_header3] A programming language that has begun picking up momentum in the community lately is Rust. This is a guide aimed at helping folks get started with the Rust Programming Language. Rust has been around for a while with a stable v1.0 shipping in 2015. Rust initially came… Continue reading Getting Started with the Rust Programming Language
Measuring Network Bandwidth using Iperf and Docker
[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”]Measuring Network Bandwidth using Iperf and Docker[/fancy_header3] At the heart of any network engineer’s toolkit, are applications that let you peer into the network for performance, congestion and capacity planning. One of the thoroughbreds in the open source network tools collection is iperf. Iperf has been around for a long time. The good folks… Continue reading Measuring Network Bandwidth using Iperf and Docker
Open Source Flow Monitoring and Visualization
[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”]Open Source Flow Monitoring and Visualization[/fancy_header3] At the heart of any reasonably sized network, should be a solid strategy around flow collection, querying and visualization. Proper use of flow logs are crucial to SecOps/NetOps from triaging attacks to capacity planning and traffic trending. I remember some 20 years ago, the first time I saw… Continue reading Open Source Flow Monitoring and Visualization
GoBGP – A Control Plane Evolving Software Networking
[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”]GoBGP – A Control Plane Evolving Software Networking[/fancy_header3] If I have talked to you over the past year or two about networking, odds are I have mentioned a project to you called GoBGP. If we have spoken a lot, you are probably sick of me talking to you about GoBGP 🙂 There is a… Continue reading GoBGP – A Control Plane Evolving Software Networking
Configuring Macvlan and Ipvlan Linux Networking
[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”]Configuring Macvlan and Ipvlan Linux Networking[/fancy_header3] Macvlan and Ipvlan are both Linux type networking interfaces that are both supported by the Linux kernel. They are unique for a few different reasons. One thing that makes them both very attractive is they do not use bridges in their implementation and natively namespace aware. It solves… Continue reading Configuring Macvlan and Ipvlan Linux Networking
Time to Ditch the Definition of SDN
[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”]Time to Ditch the Definition of SDN[/fancy_header3] While at a stoplight looking at the random news feeds on Linkedin I ran across a post of a recent blog post by the ONF and the subsequent conversation where my friend Ivan Pepenlnjak commented. So I threw in my two cents and quickly regretted it because… Continue reading Time to Ditch the Definition of SDN