We hear a lot about BGP security incidents--but what is really going on? How often do these happen, and how much damage do they do? Doug Madory, who monitors these things for Kentik, joins Russ White

One thing we often hear about automation is that its hard because there are so many different interfaces. On this episode of the Hedge, Daniel Teycheney joins Ethan Banks and Russ White to discuss ho

Reading people from the past can sometimes show us where today's blind spots are--but sometimes we can just find the blind spots of the people who lived then. In this episode of the Hedge, Tom, Eyvonn

Network operators increasingly rely on generic hosts, rather than specialized routers (appliances) to forward traffic. Much of the performance on hosts relies on offloading packets switching and proce

Network configuration analysis has always been the domain of commercial-grade software. Batfish changes all that with an open source, community-supported tool that can find errors and guarantees the

How many times have you heard you should "shift left" in the last few years? What does "shift left" even mean? Even if it had meaning once, does it still have any meaning today? Should we abandon the

How much have you thought about the way you learn--or how to effectively teach beginners? There is a surprising amount of research into how humans learn, and how best to create material to teach them.

Have you ever thought about publishing a book or recording a professional video? It's not as simple as proposing an idea, doing the work, and becoming famous (or infamous, as the case might be). Eric

User interface design is notoriously bad for networking gear--but why, and what can we do about it? Frank Seesink joins Tom and Russ to talk about user interface stupidity.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been brewing for many years--but how do all these new devices impact your network? Are there new concepts and architectures you need to learn to get a handle on IoT? J