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A podcast focusing on real-life SDN, NFV and SDDC architectures and solutions that work outside of the cozy environment of vendor-branded PowerPoint.

The first IPv6 specs were published in 1995, and yet 30 years later, we still have a pretty active IETF working group focused on " developin...

In March 2024, I received my first PR from an airplane: Sander Steffann was flying to South Africa to deliver an Ansible training and fixed...

When I first met David Gee, he worked for a large system integrator. A few years later, he moved to a networking vendor, worked for a few of...

It's been over four years since I published the last Software Gone Wild episode . In the meantime, I spent most of my time developing an ope...

As I started Software Gone Wild podcast in June 2014, I wanted to help networking engineers grow beyond the traditional networking technolog...

This podcast introduction was written by Nick Buraglio , the host of today's podcast. In today's evolving landscape of whitebox, brightbox,...

Remember my rant how " fail fast, fail often sounds great in a VC pitch deck, and sucks when you have to deal with its results "? Streaming...

This podcast introduction was written by Nick Buraglio , the host of today's podcast. In the original days of this podcast, there were heavy...

This podcast introduction was written by Nick Buraglio , the host of today's podcast. As we all know, BGP runs the networked world. It is a...

In early May 2020 I wrote a blog post introducing SuzieQ , a network observability platform Dinesh Dutt worked on for the last few years. If...

A while ago we discussed a software-focused view of Network Interface Cards (NICs) with Luke Gorrie, and a hardware-focused view of them wit...

This podcast introduction was written by Nick Buraglio , the host of today's podcast. As private overlays are becoming more and more prevale...

The last Software Gone Wild podcast recorded in 2019 focused on advances in Linux networking - in particular on interesting stuff presented...

No, we were not talking about IP fabrics in general - IP Fabric is a network management software (oops, network assurance platform ) Gian Pa...

Everyone is talking about FRRouting suite these days, while hidden somewhere in the background OpenBGPD has been making continuous progress...

Sick-and-tired of intent-based GUIs that are barely better than CiscoWorks on steroids? How about asking Siri-like assistant queries about n...

Imagine you would have a system that would read network device configurations, figure out how those devices might be connected, reverse-engi...

When I was still at university the fourth-generation programming languages were all the hype, prompting us to make jokes along the lines "fi...

Every time a new simple programming language is invented, we go through the same predictable cycle: Tons of hype; Unbounded enthusiasm when...

Remember how Nick Buraglio tried to use OpenDaylight to build a small part of SuperComputing conference network … and ended up with a progra...

I mentioned Multipath TCP (MP-TCP) numerous times in the past but I never managed to get beyond " this is the thing that might solve some TC...

A while ago we did a podcast with Luke Gorrie in which he explained why he’d love to have simple, dumb, and easy-to-work-with Ethernet NICs....

In previous Software Gone Wild episodes we covered Snabb Switch and numerous applications running on it, from L2VPN to 4over6 gateway and in...

In summer 2018 Juniper started talking about another forward-looking concept: Network Reliability Engineering. We wanted to find out whether...

We love to claim that we’re engineers and yet sometimes we have no clue how technology we use really works and what its limitations are… qui...

After a series of forward-looking podcast episodes we returned to real life and talked with Carl Buchmann about his network automation journ...

In recent years Linux networking started evolving at an amazing pace. You can hear about all the cool new stuff at netdev conference … or li...

Hardware vendors are always making their silicon more complex and feature-rich. Is that a great idea or a disaster waiting to happen? We ask...

In recent Software Gone Wild episodes we explored emerging routing protocols trying to address the specific needs of highly-meshed data cent...

In 2014, we did a series of podcasts on Snabb Switch ( Snabb Switch and OpenStack , Deep Dive ), a software-only switch delivering 10-20 Gbp...

David Barroso was sick-and-tired of using ZX Spectrum of Network Automation and decided to create an alternative with similar functionality...

Continuing the series of data center routing protocol podcasts , we sat down with Russ White (of the CCDE fame), author of another proposal:...

Years ago Petr Lapukhov decided that it's a waste of time to try to make OSPF or IS-IS work in large-scale data center leaf-and-spine fabric...

Continuing the Linux networking discussion we had in Episode 86 , we focused on Linux interfaces in Episode 87 of Software Gone Wild with Ro...

Linux operating system is used as the foundation for numerous network operating systems including Arista EOS and Cumulus Linux. It provides...

A long while ago Marcel Wiget sent me an interesting email along the lines “ I think you should do a Software Gone Wild podcast with Phil Sh...

During Cisco Live Berlin 2017 Peter Jones (chair of several IEEE task forces) and myself went on a journey through 40 years of Ethernet hist...

In June 2017, we concluded the Building Next Generation Data Center online course with a roundtable discussion with Andrew Lerner, Research...

A while ago I got a kind email from Kireeti Kompella, CTO @ Juniper Networks, saying “ A colleague sent me an email of yours regarding SDN,...

In June 2017, we concluded the Building Next Generation Data Center online course with a roundtable discussion with Andrew Lerner, Research...

Imagine a service provider that allows you to provision 100GE point-to-point circuit between any two of their POPs through a web site and de...

OpenConfig sounds like a great idea, but unfortunately only a few vendors support it , and it doesn’t run on all their platforms, and you ne...

Network automation and orchestration is a great idea… but how do you verify that what your automation script wants to do won't break...

Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Git, GitLab… the list of tools you can supposedly use to automate your network is endless, and there’s a new kid on t...

During Cisco Live Europe 2017 (where I got thanks to the Tech Field Day crew kindly inviting me ) I had a nice chat with Peter Jones, princi...

During Cisco Live Europe (huge thanks to Tech Field Day crew for bringing me there ) I had a chat with Jeff McLaughlin about NETCONF support...

In autumn 2016 I embarked on a quest to figure out how TCP really works and whether big buffers in data center switches make sense. One of t...

Last year Cisco launched a new series of Nexus 9000 switches with table sizes that didn’t match any of the known merchant silicon ASICs. It...

In 2013, large-scale cloud providers and ISPs decided they had enough of the glacial IETF process of generating YANG models used to describe...

When I recorded the first podcast with Thomas Graf we both found it so much fun that we decided to do it again. Thomas had attended the NetD...