I’ve been speaking with more folks again recently about AI initiatives in their IT organizations. Most recently it was a systems team that ran the on-prem server infrastructure, Azure environment, and just recently also tasked with end-user computing. What struck me in the conversation was how the discussion kept going back to AI. That might... Continue Reading →| {networkphil}
A few months ago I read Kavita Ganesan’s excellent book, The Business Case for AI: A Leader’s Guide to AI Strategies, Best Practices & Real-World Applications. I highly recommend it to anyone thinking critically about implementing an AI solution in IT operations because the concepts and best practices she outlines helped me to think more... Continue Reading →| {networkphil}
A good friend of mine is an electrical engineer for a well-known passenger train company in the United States, and we recently talked about how his job, his entire career, has taken a turn from traditional electrical engineering to computer systems integrations and building telemetry pipelines. In other words, as the industry progressed, he wasn’t... Continue Reading →| {networkphil}
One practical use-case for using large language models in network operations is to help query large datasets of network telemetry faster and more easily by using natural language. This can improve NetOps and facilitate better data-driven insights for engineers and business leaders. However, the volume and nature of the data types we commonly utilize in... Continue Reading →| {networkphil}
Hey networking community! To get you through another week of cutovers, pcaps, and folks blaming the network when it’s yet another DNS issue, I made this song parody just for you 🙂 It’s called Packets, based on one of the best songs to hit the airwaves in February 1996, and in my humblest of opinions,... Continue Reading →| {networkphil}
These are 10 books that have been foundational for me personally in my career as a network engineer. I left out the Cisco CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE textbooks, though they were all mostly fantastic. However, this list below has been great for me as foundational networking knowledge in a well-written format. Toward the bottom are... Continue Reading →| {networkphil}
You can split New York State into several regions, though the exact areas are often hotly debated depending on if you say soda, pop, or know all too well what time the last train leaves Penn Station. When Zig Zsiga and I started the New York Networking Users Group, the idea was to continue with... Continue Reading →| {networkphil}
BGP is the de facto routing protocol for inter-domain routing, or in other words, the global internet. It’s used to exchange routing information among autonomous systems around the entire world. Therefore, it’s extremely important we do what we can to secure BGP communications, what we advertise, and the methods we use to create peering relationships.... Continue Reading →| {networkphil}
In the context of BGP, a valley-free violation is when routing policy governing BGP path selection and advertisement breaks the valley-free policy. The valley-free routing policy basically ensures …| {networkphil}
Large language models like GPT, Claude, Llama, and others have the potential to transform network operations. We’re familiar with how they help us generate code, summarize texts, and answer b…| {networkphil}
