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Without beating the ‘old drum’ without reason, sometimes you have to ask does the drum still need beating. Quick 5 minute articles like this one are always worth asking that question. As system administrators make the journey to SREs or ‘Site Reliability Engineers’, network engineers are also on the same trajectory. We might start from an expected Liam Neeson story point (I have some very specific skills etc), but it’s time to become a better Dad and just stop letting them take your daughter. Sometimes we just need to understand why it’s good to understand certain technology and in this case dream boat (I watched ‘The Accountant’ night, what an excellent film), NFS provides us with the ability to write and test code on remote machines for automation use cases. Sure, it’s just a network based file share, but the power of what it allows us to do is far more interesting.
Needless to say, on the same theme as the last blog post, this is another one that is anchored around StackStorm. With our trusty platform, when we create components for a pack like a actions and sensors, it’s important to have access to an IDE or set of Continue reading
Tony Fortunato explains what's involved in checking the health of a wireless link.
One of my readers watched my Leaf-and-Spine Fabric Architectures webinar and had a follow-up question:
You mentioned 3-tier architecture was dictated primarily by port count and throughput limits. I can understand that port density was a problem, but can you elaborate why the throughput is also a limitation? Do you mean that core switch like 6500 also not suitable to build a 2-tier network in term of throughput?
As always, the short answer is it depends, in this case on your access port count and bandwidth requirements.
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