John Herbert

CCIE since 2001, amateur photographer, amateur musician, amateur dad, living in GA. Anything I say is my own (here or on my blog at

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@HankYeomans @SharpNetwork @bcjordo @scottm32768 As a publicly traded company, I could argue that they had a fiduciary duty to force completion of a deal which made their shareholders very happy. If Musk hadn’t committed to a ludicrously priced buyout - for god knows what reason beyond pure hubris - this wouldn’t be happening.

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@nwkautomaniac I’d like to additionally diagnose your kitty with a minor case of Derp.

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Hey @RadioShack, found a product you should start selling. #bro #crypto

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CLI Shortcut for Visual Studio Code on MacOS https://t.co/ngMRdAIp0V

[Jeremy Schulman @nwkautomaniac]

#NFD28 that you @mrtugs for making this for me!

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I’ve heard from @NetBeez twice before the current #NFD28 presentation, at #NFD9 and #NFD12, and I’ve used the agents professionally. Nonetheless, they have moved forward an aming amount to expand into endpoint monitoring. Great job, and a serious contender in this segment.

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Let’s ignore the fact that MacOS wants to autocorrect “Netris" to “Tetris”, and enjoy the presentation nonetheless #NFD28

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@jpwarren @NetworkingNerd Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right?

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I know the @AristaNetworks 7800 can support 576 x 400G ports, but honestly I’m not sure that’s enough for me. #NFD28

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Powerpoint meets its nemesis courtesy of @AristaNetworks at #NFD28

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@SystemMTUOne @0UR080R05 “easily” is subjective ;-) Still, could be worse; you might be checking configuration syntax into a git repo and pushing it to a device. #NFD28

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@0UR080R05 There are times though when config is much simpler in a CLI than in a GUI. Some of that - IMO - is designers making people work the way the UI needs to work, rather than making the UI work the way the user needs it to. cf: every first deployment of Remedy... #NFD28

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@0UR080R05 Very true, although things have moved on SO FAR compared to the old menu-driven “CLI”s which were considered “better” than a regular CLI ;-) #nfd28

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@wollmannbruno Exactly… Still, it’s fun when you win every now and again :)

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@wollmannbruno I love playing the “Spot the product I haven’t come across before and try to google it despite the massive name collisions” game ;-) #NFD28

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It’s hard to argue with @AristaNetworks’ testing approach:

- One OS (EOS) runs on all platforms;
- Test every EOS feature on every platform every time.

Automation makes it so that even patches and maintenance releases can be fully regression tested pre-release. #NFD28

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Quite often when a founding CxO presents, they've lost their focus on the nerd core and it can be painful. Never so with @AristaNetworks’ Ken Duda at #NFD28. It’s so key to have this kind of attitude from the top down in a company.

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Ken Duda at @AristaNetworks worries about the stats that there's:

- 1 bug per 10 lines of code after code check-in;
- 1 bug /100 lines after QA has signed off ;
- 1 bug per 1000 lines after the code has had maintenance releases;

...and asks how we reduce that. #NFD28

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Folks, Ken Duda is on the mic at #NFD28 for @AristaNetworks . DON’T MISS THIS! He’s talking about software quailty; and last from him - about 7 years ago - we thought it was one of the best presentations yet at an NFD. https://t.co/MxirxDM0V2