Tom Ammon

[Avishai Ish-Shalom @nukemberg]

A while back I got interviewed on The Hedge podcast about Jurassic Cloud, old interfaces and the evolution of compute landscape. Sadly I neglected to tweet about it 🤦🏻‍♀️
10x @tomammon @rtggeek

https://t.co/SnPx3G9tr2

[Russ White @rtggeek]

Computers only have a history stretching back some 60 or 70 years—and yet much of that history has already been lost in this mist of time. Are we focusing so deeply on the future that we have forgotten our past? What might we learn from the past, even the recent past, and how does forgetting our past impact the future. Federico Lucifredi joins @tomammon and Russ White to discuss some of his projects finding, repairing, and operating old personal computers.

https://t.co/m2rJ2flaqa

#retrocomputing

[Russ White @rtggeek]

When network engineers think of a data center, we think of fabrics and routers and switches. There is a lot more to a data center, though—there is power, building construction, environmentals, and a lot of others. What possible jobs are out there in the data center space for people who want to work in IT, but don't either want to code or build networks? Carrie Goetz, author of Jumpstart Your Career in Data Centers joins @tomammon and Russ White to tell us about a few, and about the importance of other careers in the data center.

https://t.co/ISI7VgAGRx

#networkengineering #datacenter

[Derick Winkworth @cloudtoad]

Original:
"EVPN-VXLAN is complicated. We'll use Ansible to automate it so we don't have to worry about it."

Translated:
"LOL, we can fix this gearbox by dumping a bag of wrenches into it."

[Tom Ammon @tomammon]

@network_phil I'm starting to appreciate some of the engineering realities behind vendor-qualified optics. Not the absurd markups, but the fact that not all optics are going to automatically work with every NOS and switch chip. Don't come at me with pitchforks, people!

[Tom Ammon @tomammon]

@danieldibswe (smartalek answer incoming) Use SONiC on the switches and a Y-Cable! I wish I was joking...https://t.co/7ZyRGb9tNH

[Tom Ammon @tomammon]

@supertylerc 100% agree. My team just finished an innovation sprint and it unlocked some pretty great results.

[Russ White @rtggeek]

Hedge 153: Security Perceptions and Multicloud Roundtable https://t.co/CIXeIgyiZv

[Tom Ammon @tomammon]

@networkservice why you give up so soon? ;-)

[Russ White @rtggeek]

Hedge 151: Cecilia Testart and the Value of the RPKI https://t.co/dqjHlTr5t1

[@[email protected] @Nick_Craver]

"I'm gonna get this perfect!"

Perfect for...what? A changing world and problem set where that perfect match won't last anyway? The vast majority of the time, your design is against a target that shifts over time and chasing perfection is a waste of energy. Be practical too.

[Russ White @rtggeek]

Hedge 149: Roundtable https://t.co/tZ5vNOokD5

[Tom Ammon @tomammon]

@PeteCCDE How about "Principal Knowledge Engineer"? Or "Keeper of the abstraction between machines and humans". Docs are the ultimate API :-)

[INS Institute for Network and Security @INSRapperswil]

WEmulate v2 is released 🥳🍻

WEmulate is a simple and modern open source WAN emulator. Besides the Wemulate module, an API and a frontend module are also available.

https://t.co/bNhGaMHoKy

[Crystal Hirschorn @cfhirschorn]

You can either deal with stuff tactically a thousand times, or deal with it at the systems level. It feels like more work to go the systems thinking route, but I can assure you it's not. It's not by a long shot.

[Tom Ammon @tomammon]

@networkservice I'm not sure it's possible to be successful with sonic without a direct relationship with an ODM.

[Russ White @rtggeek]

Hedge 147: The SRE with Niall Murphy (part 1) https://t.co/NEfj6OsS2T

[Tom Ammon @tomammon]

@PeteCCDE @showipintbri @TracketPacer Sorry, I meant to say " a time nerd ". Talk about needing precision, sheesh.

[Tom Ammon @tomammon]

@PeteCCDE @showipintbri @TracketPacer NTP++, 🤣 there's an NTP nerd somewhere in the world right now who is utterly disappointed in humanity...