Chico Bon Bon knows how to optimise routes
Simplify JSON with JSONata, column-select your output, useful BGP tools, a Ransomware expose and seamless EVPN in the wild
Hopefully your Data Centre aircon units are coping better in the đĽ heatwave than we are! Letâs dive in; âŹď¸
NetEng
Simplify JSON Parsing with JSONata is much faster than writing a quick Python test.py script to interrogate and understand JSON file structures (âšď¸ You can also save your output as a .json file; open with Firefox and thank us later)
Block/Column Select for Network Operators is incredibly useful to vertically-select a specific column(s) of data without doing the âcopy-paste to Excel-copyâ dance
BGP.Tools is everything you ever wanted a BGP Looking Glass to be, with added extras like translating well-known Internet BGP Communities, ASN Upstreams and SaaS IPv4/6 Prefixes (weâre looking at you, ever-changing Office365 IP Ranges đ)
NotEng
Can you rely on 'open source' companies? when times change and the spirit of GPL licensing becomes a thing of the past
Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey argues the case against boiling down Engineering to qualitative measures like âlines of codeâ that arenât informative of quality
Ransomware Diaries: Volume 3 - LockBitâs Secrets is a fascinating insight into the murky world of the infamous LockBit Ransomware Gang
Tech Vault Interview Questions Bank does what it says and is a valuable resource to go through if youâre about to interview for a job role
Industry
Peering LAN 2.0 â Introduction of EVPN at DE-CIX documents the seamless implementation of EVPN into the major European IX in Frankfurt
Network technology giant Juniper warns users about denial-of-service bugs due to presence of maliciously-crafted BGP payloads
containerlab 0.44 release includes the ability to simulate ISP link impairments like packet loss and jitter
Metaphor AI Search is fantastic at everything from scraping the latest news to coding a quick IaC runbook for a dodgy vendor youâve never heard of
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