On November 25, 2019, the regional Internet registry for Europe announced that it had made its “final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool” and that “[w]e have now run out of IPv4 addresses.” This wasn’t surprising; smart people had been working on the problem for years, which[...]

It’s funny to think about how much effort we put into keeping the internal network up when all of our customer interaction is funneling through a single Linux server running Apache and MySQL. Of course, you can hook that server up to an Uplogix Local Manager and allow us to monitor services and memory and all the[...]

Read enough of my blog posts and you’ll hear the same message over and over: don’t use the network to manage the network. This is a staple of life at Uplogix, and many of us have it tattooed across our backs in an ornate font that suggests we’ve done time in the most hardcore datacenters this country has to offer.[...]

It was 8^th century French pastry chef Adolfus Xiang who famously said, “A watched pot never boils.” Today, the same could be said for network devices and their interfaces, which only seem to fail when we’re not looking. Every engineer knows this, and that’s why for years, they’ve turned to scripts and software to[...]

When I walk into a car dealership, there’s always this awkward exchange when I have to convince the salesperson that I’m not there to hear their pitch about how great the Onyx GT7 is, or what kind of gas mileage it gets, or how they’re throwing in a backup camera that’s been required by law since 2018 for “free.”[...]

Do you think it was Thomas Edison or Nikola Tesla who first said have you tried turning it off and back on again? Did they know in ancient times that one of the most tried and true troubleshooting techniques of the 21^st century would be to simply cut power and restore it? I like to think yes, of course they did.[...]