BRKRST-3014 – Policy, Complexity, and Modern Control Planes


Presented by: Russ White, LinkedIn

Networks are complex. How do we measure complexity? How do we measure scale? What’s the unit of measure?

You can’t “solve” complexity.

Alderson D and J Dole “complexity in highly organized systems arises primarily from design strategies intended to create robustness to uncertainty.” There’s a point on the complexity scale where robustness actually drops. “Robust but fragile”.

Dunning Kruger effect?

What is complexity?

  • Anything you don’t understand?
  • Anything with many parts?
  • Anything with unintended consequences?
  • Something that can’t be solved; can’t be easily defined.
  • We need to develop a model to understand complex systems quickly

“If you haven’t found the trade off, you haven’t looked hard enough” — Russ

The model:

  • Ask, Why?
  • Ask ,What & How?
  • State
  • Optimization
  • [Interaction] Surface (where two components interact with each other [which could be, and often is, human on CLI])
  • Ask, This is like what? (what’s it similar to?)
  • Now matter how you’re analyzing a network (protocols, applications, whatever), you’ll find these 3 things.
  • Good examples of questions to ask for each point in different use cases

3-way trade off:

  • Quick/Cheap/Quality, or
  • State/Surface/Optimization

“Adding more state to the system should result in an increase in optimization” Continue reading

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