Fenomena Kompetisi Automata Mekanis: Seni Kinetik dan Rekayasa Kreatif

Dalam era modern saat ini, perpaduan antara seni dan teknologi semakin menarik perhatian, salah satu contohnya adalah dalam fenomena kompetisi membuat automata mekanis. Automata mekanis merupakan karya seni kinetik yang tidak hanya mengandalkan keindahan visual, tetapi juga membutuhkan pemahaman mendalam tentang rekayasa kreatif untuk menciptakan gerakan yang kompleks dan mengagumkan. Artikel ini akan membahas bagaimana kompetisi inovasi di bidang automata mekanis menjadi wadah menyatukan seni dan teknologi secara harmonis.

Apa Itu Automata Mekanis?

Automata mekanis adalah sebuah objek atau figur yang dapat bergerak secara otomatis menggunakan mekanisme mesin. Biasanya, automata ini terbuat dari berbagai material seperti kayu, logam, atau plastik, dan dioperasikan melalui roda gigi, tuas, dan sistem penggerak mekanis lainnya.

Automata bukan hanya sekadar mainan mekanik; mereka merepresentasikan bentuk seni kinetik yang memukau. Gerakan yang dihasilkan automata bisa berupa animasi sederhana hingga rangkaian gerakan rumit yang menciptakan pengalaman visual dan emosional bagi penontonnya.

Seni Kinetik dan Rekayasa Kreatif dalam Automata Mekanis

Seni Kinetik: Lebih dari Sekadar Estetika

Seni kinetik berfokus pada gerak atau dinamika sebagai bagian esensial dari karya seni. Dalam automata mekanis, seni kinetik tercermin lewat kemampuan objek untuk bergerak dan bertransformasi, sehingga penggerakannya menjadi unsur penting dalam estetika.

Gerakan automata membawa cerita visual yang hidup, mengundang interaksi Continue reading

Notes from NANOG 97

These days you could be excused by suspecting that the world has gone AI-mad, and if you were at the NANOG 97 meeting your suspicions would've only been confirmed! The topics discussed the design of the data centres used to generate the large language models that underpin today's AI tools and the application of AI tools in network operations.

Python Working with Structured Data Files

Python Working with Structured Data Files

In the previous sections, we looked at reading and writing plain text files. That was a good starting point, and plain text is still the right choice for things like config backups or log files. But most of the data you deal with in network automation is not plain text, it has structure. A list of devices with their IPs, usernames, and roles. A dictionary of device facts. A nested set of configuration values with groups and per-device overrides.

When your data has structure, you need a format that can represent that structure in a way both humans and computers can understand. This is where structured data files can help. The three main formats you will run into as a network engineer are CSV, JSON, and YAML.

CSV Files

CSV stands for Comma-Separated Values. A CSV file is just a plain text file where each line is a row, and each value in the row is separated by a comma. The first row usually contains column headers.

Here is what a CSV file looks like, saved as devices.csv.

hostname,ip,vendor,role
r1,192.168.202.101,cisco,edge
r2,192.168.202.102,juniper,core
r3,192.168.202.103,arista,edge

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AI Isn’t a Genie, It’s an Intern

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. We build a super intelligent system and give it a specific goal like maximizing paperclip production. The system decides to do the job as well as possible by converting all available matter into paperclips. Everything. The Earth. The solar system. All of it. After the universe collapses the machine shuts down, content that it followed directions.

This is the malicious genie problem that every Dungeons & Dragons player knows. You find a lamp. You make a wish. The genie grants the wish in the most technical way possible and it leads to catastrophe. The lesson we are supposed to learn is that a sufficiently capable AI system will find ways to satisfy objectives to the letter while simultaneously not doing it the way you wanted. The foundation of AI safety is to prevent that from happening.

Nick Bostrom has covered this in Superintelligence. Eliezer Yudkowsky has argued this very thing for years. It’s a compelling story. But it has a hidden assumption that causes more confusion that it solves.

The Best Intentions

The genie tale is a story about intent. The genie knows exactly what you asked for. It just found the Continue reading

Time for Another Summer Break?

I can confirm that an old saying is true: the older you are, the faster years pass. Can’t believe it’s time for another summer break. I hope you’ll manage to get away from work, turn off the Internet, and enjoy a few days in your favorite spot with your loved ones!

I also promise I won’t be annoying you with boring stuff like EVPN next hops or pointers to AI myth-busters (I have to admit it: I was cleaning my Inbox this week). However, I probably won’t be able to resist publishing a few lightweight netlab-related blog posts, or links to interesting content.

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Python Working With NAPALM

Python Working With NAPALM

At the end of the last part, we looked at the multi-vendor problem. Every time you support a new vendor with Netmiko, you have to remember its command syntax, keep track of the differences, and add more branching logic to your scripts. It works, but it gets messy fast.

NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction Layer with Multivendor support) is a Python library that solves exactly this problem. Instead of sending vendor-specific commands and dealing with the differences yourself, you use NAPALM's standard set of methods, and NAPALM figures out what to do for each platform behind the scenes. Ask NAPALM to get_config(), and it will send the right command to a Cisco IOS device, the right command to a Juniper device, and the right command to an Arista device, all through the same Python method call.

NAPALM currently supports Cisco IOS, Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco NX-OS, Arista EOS, Juniper Junos, and a few others. It is not as broad as Netmiko in terms of vendor coverage, but for the vendors it does support, the abstraction it provides is well worth it.

There is one more thing worth understanding upfront. NAPALM is not a replacement for Netmiko, it actually uses Continue reading

N4N059: Twisted Pair Cabling

Copper twisted pair cabling serves as a fundamental component of Ethernet infrastructure and Ethan and Holly are here to break down how it works. They discuss the technical differences between cabling categories, how wire twisting cancels out electromagnetic interference, and share practical guidance on installation standards and testing methodologies. Episode Links: Watch this episode on... Read more »

IPB203: The Death of NAT

Network Address Translation (NAT), a foundational element of IPv4, faces critical reassessment as IPv6 deployment shifts the landscape. Ed and Tom evaluate the evolving role of NAT, questioning whether traditional translation models remain necessary when stateful packet inspection offers more robust, transparent security solutions. Episode Links: “Fanboy” series – IPv6 and NATs – YouTube

How we built saga rollbacks for Cloudflare Workflows

Cloudflare Workflows allows you to build durable, multi-step applications with built-in retries and state persistence across long-running processes. When a Workflow executes, each step can call external systems, retry failures, and persist state across restarts. But if one step fails, it may leave earlier work from completed steps in an inconsistent or partial state.

Today we’re shipping saga rollbacks for Workflows, allowing you to declare rollback logic within the step itself, in case of failure.

For example, consider a workflow for transferring funds between accounts at two different banks:

  1. Debit from account at Bank A

  2. Credit to account at Bank B

  3. Send email confirmation to both account owners

What happens if Step 2, the credit to account at Bank B, fails? Once the debit succeeds at Bank A, the transaction is committed and the money has left its system. As the orchestrator of the transaction, you cannot simply “undo” the operation in Bank A's system. Instead, the money must be credited back to the account at Bank A through a new operation that semantically reverses the first one.

This pairing of an operation and its compensation logic is called the saga pattern.

Before today, developers had to implement their own Continue reading

Python Working with Files

Python Working with Files

Almost every Python script eventually needs to read from or write to a file. You might want to save the output of a command for later, back up device configs to disk, load a list of devices from a text file instead of hardcoding them, or write a log of what your script did. Python makes all of this straightforward once you know how it works.

In this part, we will start with reading text files, cover the proper way to open files using context managers, and then move on to writing and appending. Once we have the basics down, we will build a small config backup script that connects to devices, pulls the running config, and saves each one to its own file on disk.

Reading a Text File

To read a file in Python, you use the built-in open() function. It takes the path to the file as the first argument and returns a file object that you can read from.

Let's say you have a file called devices.txt in the same folder as your script, with the following contents.

192.168.202.101
192.168.202.102
192.168.202.103

Here is the most basic Continue reading

D2DO305: Scaling Human Connection in Tech Communities

Kyler and Ned are joined by former AWS Community Program Manager Jason Dunn to discuss what it takes to build and maintain a thriving tech community. Jason shares his “benevolent dictatorship” philosophy on community management, emphasizing the importance of authentic human connections. They also explore how AI can empower non-technical individuals to build custom solutions... Read more »

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Unlocking the Cloudflare app ecosystem with OAuth for all

Cloudflare provides services that help run 20% of the web, but we don’t do it alone. Developers on our platform use a myriad of tools and services from other companies too. Cloudflare provides a rich API for our platform that enables developers to create automations, CI/CD, and integrations that glue together the various parts of their infrastructure. Earlier this month, we announced self-managed OAuth, making it easier for customers to create and manage their own OAuth clients for delegated access to the Cloudflare API.

Cloudflare isn’t new to OAuth. If you’ve used Wrangler, or used integrations from partners like PlanetScale, then you’ve already used it. However, until now, third-party OAuth was only available through a small number of manually onboarded integrations, and was not available to developers more broadly. That meant developers building their own integrations had to rely on API tokens, which are harder to manage and a poor fit for many delegated application flows. 

Over the last year, we onboarded a growing number of early partners while improving the consent, revocation, and security model behind Cloudflare OAuth. But as our Developer Platform grew and agentic tools drove demand for delegated access, it became clear that opening Continue reading

HS136: How AI Is Changing Enterprise Software Development (Sponsored)

AI can generate working code quickly. Building reliable software to run infrastructure platforms is still a multi-year engineering challenge. In this sponsored episode, BlueCat chief strategy officer Andrew Wertkin joins John Burke and Scott Robohn to talk through the difference between code generation and enterprise software development, and the challenges and opportunities of engineering reliability... Read more »
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