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Full Stack Journey 034: Choosing Your Own Adventure

If you've ever thought about working for yourself, catch this episode of the Full Stack Journey. Guest Ned Bellavance discusses his decision to leave a job as an IT consultant to become an independent content creator of tech training material. Ned shares real-world insights into his experience along with practical takeaways.

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Full Stack Journey 034: Choosing Your Own Adventure

If you've ever thought about working for yourself, catch this episode of the Full Stack Journey. Guest Ned Bellavance discusses his decision to leave a job as an IT consultant to become an independent content creator of tech training material. Ned shares real-world insights into his experience along with practical takeaways.

Heavy Networking 473: Synthetic Transactions, SD-WAN Readiness, And Internet Outage Autopsies With ThousandEyes (Sponsored)

ThousandEyes sponsors today's Heavy Networking for a wide-ranging episode that explores a new synthetic transaction monitoring feature, discusses why performance monitoring is essential to prepare for SD-WAN rollouts, and walks through postmortems on 2019's biggest Internet outages. Guests Alex Henthorn-Iwane and Angelique Medina join us.

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Network Break 253: Arista CloudVision Ingests Configs From Third-Party Gear; Cisco Adds Azure To Cloud ACI

Today's Network Break discusses upgrades to Arista's CloudVision management software, a new ACI partnership between Cisco and Microsoft Azure, a Google pledge to invest in new European data centers, Amazon's pledge to be carbon-neutral by 2040, and more tech news.

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Heavy Networking 472: Grappling With Wireless QoS

If you are deploying an enterprise QoS scheme, wireless QoS matters to you. On today's episode, we go through the basics of wireless QoS, covering some of the standards, terminology, and thinking required to get your head around how we can prioritize packets over a shared medium. Our guest is Ryan Adzima.

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IPv6 Buzz 035: Selling Your IPv4 Addresses For Fun And Profit

Your IPv4 addresses are a financial asset because the market for v4 address space is rising. The question is, for how long? Guest Lee Howard joins the IPv6 Buzz podcast crew to discuss the financial implications of selling IPv4 addresses. They also discuss the performance and operational benefits of moving to IPv6.

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Day Two Cloud 018: “I’m Not As Terrified As I Was” – Making The Transition To Cloud And DevOps

Today's Day Two Cloud podcast explores the struggle of transitioning from traditional infrastructure ops to the public cloud using DevOps principles and new tools. My guest is Aaron Strong, a cloud architect. We talk about how to skill up quickly, where to start, when and where to ask for help, and more.

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Network Break 252: Big Tech Backlash Hits Google; Activist Investor Tells AT&T To Slash And Burn

On today's Network Break podcast, Google is the latest tech giant to face a tech backlash as U.S. Attorneys General launch an antitrust investigation, AT&T comes under fire from an activist investor, Microsoft partners with satellite broadband providers on ExpressRoute, Gigamon rolls out new software, and more tech news.

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Tech Bytes: Oracle And The Failsafe SD-WAN (Sponsored)

Today's Tech Bytes dives into failsafe SD-WAN with sponsor Oracle. We discuss how Oracle provides Quality of Experience through techniques such as continuous unidirectional measurement and sub-second response to network events. Our guest is Andy Gottlieb, VP, SD-WAN Solutions at Oracle.

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Heavy Networking 471: Routing-Centric Transformation With Arrcus’s ArcOS (Sponsored)

Today's Heavy Networking welcomes back sponsor Arrcus to discuss the latest advancements in its ArcOS NOS, including support for Jericho2 ASICs, the new ArcIQ Analytics platform, and the vote of confidence from investors in the form of a $30 million funding round. Our guests are Keyur Patel, CTO and founder; and Murali Gandluru, VP of Product Management.

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Heavy Networking 470: Why Does Networking Evolve So Slowly?

Packet Pushers host Greg Ferro found slides from a presentation he gave in 1999, and many of the points he raised are still relevant 20 years on. Why does networking take so long to change? The Packet Pushers and guests Jeremy Filliben, a CCDE trainer; and Emma Cardinal-Richards, a senior network architect; share their insights and opinions.

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Network Break 251: AWS Outage Is A Backup Reminder; What’s New At FutureNET?

Today's Network Break podcast delves into an AWS outage, tracks a slump in server sales, examines acquisitions by Commvault and Microsoft, and shares highlights from VMworld's FutureNET program. Guest Ed Horley stops by to share commentary and insights.

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IPv6 Buzz 034: Why AWS Embraces IPv6

AWS regards IPv6 as a key mechanism to enable customer agility, and to meet rising demands from new applications and devices, particularly IoT. In this episode, Scott and Tom interview Alan Halachmi, Senior Manager of Solutions Architecture at AWS. They discuss current and planned IPv6 support in AWS services, the cloud provider's challenges in deploying the protocol, and advice for cloud users on adopting IPv6.

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