Rob Shakir

Software-defined network engineer, network-defined software engineer @google.

Mastodon: [email protected]

My tweets reflect my views.

[Rob Shakir @robshakir]

@ehorley This reminds me of the good old days of the 6bone. Ceased operation in 2006. Wow. Makes me feel old!

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@mellowdrifter This gravel stuff is dangerous, man.

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@becshakir Where was this?! Amazing.

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@mohanraut9 These roles are based in Atlanta, GA — Google has a site-specific hybrid policy, but being in Atlanta is required.

[Rob Shakir @robshakir]

Hi folks. One of the groups that I am the tech lead has two network engineering positions available — based out of Atlanta. The group is responsible for rethinking how we define, test and deploy network devices. 1/3

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The roles are posted here;

https://t.co/KNOykMreOq

https://t.co/POyUR2lXSU 3/3

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You can read a bit about what the group has been working on over the last few years on my blog - or listen to my NANOG 90 keynote:
https://t.co/4YhsfI4Upk
https://t.co/4n7cZPjt6J 2/3

[Rob Shakir @robshakir]

Congratulations. Lars is awesome and we are really happy he joined @google to continue to drive new things :-)

[Pawel Foremski @pforemski]

I'll be presenting the Kirin #BGP attack in Singapore during @ASIACCS2024 in July.

Our joint paper with Lars @mydamnhandle1 and Oliver has been accepted!

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@mellowdrifter Cloud-free days can partially be achieved by taking a day off. :-)

[Rob Shakir @robshakir]

@plajjan +1. Reproducible quick testing is super important for developer experience -- folks that don't write code don't get this. Sometimes there are external deps, but figuring out how to reproduce them (e.g., fakes, mocks....) for fast reproduction is table stakes.

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@mellowdrifter Someone I used to ride with painted bikes for some of the pro teams. I feel like a full on orange cervelo isn’t beyond my imagination.

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The folks at NANOG posted the video of my talk last week -- https://t.co/qqYgfyBwBJ

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@TracketPacer They may still be running in production.

[Rob Shakir @robshakir]

@TracketPacer Ran 6500s running CatOS and left them running when I left the role. :-)

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@Zaphod13 A video should be available once NANOG post it. I’ll link it on https://t.co/4YhsfI4mzM once it is.

[Rob Shakir @robshakir]

I very much enjoyed giving a keynote at NANOG90 this morning, reflecting on the development of abstractions in networking -- and sharing some thoughts on the future of network automation. I posted the slides here: https://t.co/sWcutvRyKn #nanog #nanog90

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@mellowdrifter Nice! Glad you’ve managed to get back riding. Have a great Christmas, and continued recovery!

[Rob Shakir @robshakir]

@nickrusso42518 We generally refer to this as TypedValue or PROTO encoding. There are native protobuf fields for each type that a model can contain - so more than just unsigned ints. Splitting down to k,v allows for efficient caching at a collector without the overhead of JSON decoding.

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@PeteCCDE @networkservice @TracketPacer Had an amazing set of events with i2c a few years ago that resulted in us doing a LOT of field replacements of PSUs that had mysteriously "failed". It's worth remembering they are out there ;-)