Month: January 2025

AusNOG 2024

A bit late to review, but some interesting talks. Agenda.

Arista: Practical AI Networking Innovations:

rail optimized
all reduce

low entropy, 2-3 flows per nic, elephant, bursty

JCT job completion time
TSN time spent networking

overprovisioning 1:1.2

Nokia: NUTS python network testing:

It looks quite nice, it is based on pytest and nornir/napalm. It looks similar to batfish?

Measuring Starlink:

High jitter, each 15sec change satellite -> micro-loss. BBR (non-loss sensitive) is the best flow protocol protocol with Starlink. ECN.

A Dangerous Fortune

I read this book a second time without realising. The first time was several years ago, I think it was one of first English books bough in paper. The second time was a cheap deal at 99p for the ebook.

And, I enjoyed it. The thrill, the twists, really engaging. It reminds to “The Pillars of the Earth” It is funny how this reminds me to all the bank crashes we had in 2008/9 and even last year in Silicon Valley. We don’t learn.