October 14, 2019 Jan Lindblad Need Agility? Buy Programmability! Which of these situations do you recognize? All the dials are in the red. You realize you are under DDOS attack. Wonderful that your friends over at the firewall company … Read More
October 09, 2019 John Lawitzke Why Should You Attend ConfD Developer Days 2019? We are a couple of weeks away from ConfD Developer Days 2019. As such, we wanted to give a totally biased view of why you should join us this year … Read More
September 19, 2019 Nabil Michraf ConfD Troubleshooting Guide When debugging issues in ConfD, one should have a good understanding of what is involved inside and outside of ConfD when the issue is reproduced. Relying on a single tool … Read More
September 17, 2019 John Lawitzke Importance of Transactions for Programmability We have seen a huge transition as more and more network engineering teams move towards a service-oriented approach to network management. With this transition, most have or are starting to … Read More
August 22, 2019 Greg Olin ConfD Legacy REST API to RESTCONF Migration We introduced an experimental REST API interface for ConfD in 2012, which eventually became a full production interface. The IETF then took that idea of having a REST interface alongside … Read More
August 21, 2019 John Lawitzke ConfD Basic 7.1.1 – Now with Python We are excited to announce the release of ConfD Basic 7.1.1. This release contains a major new addition to ConfD Basic as well as a few product announcements. What’s NEW: … Read More
August 20, 2019 John Lawitzke Network Programmability: The Enabler of Innovation As you may have realized, we talk a lot about network programmability as a set of tools to manage and troubleshoot network elements. Much of the conversation centers around the … Read More
July 25, 2019 John Lawitzke Are you ready for Digital Transformation? Your Competitors Are! You can’t go anywhere these days without seeing how digital transformation is changing the way things work and the way we do business. For instance, I recently had to visit … Read More
July 25, 2019 John Lawitzke ConfD 7.2 Release Highlights We are happy to announce the release of ConfD 7.2 with several exciting new features. This blog post highlights the most important enhancements, changes, and deprecations. These, however, are just … Read More
June 26, 2019 John Lawitzke Book of the Month, Quarter, and Year Club: Network Programmability with YANG If you are reading this, then you clearly see things the way we do: networks are evolving at light speed and require a superhuman effort to scale faster than what … Read More
June 20, 2019 Wai Tai NSO Driven NETCONF and YANG Interoperability Testing How do you tell if your NETCONF and YANG implementation is done right and can allow your device or application to be easily automated without requiring any special or error … Read More
May 23, 2019 Conny Ohult Andersen Machine-to-Machine Network Wide NETCONF Transactions and Why “Shallow” is Vastly Less Valuable than Going Slightly “Deeper” While preparing to write our new white paper “Managing Distributed Systems Using NETCONF and RESTCONF Transactions”, I have been reading Martin Kleppmann’s excellent book “Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas … Read More
May 16, 2019 John Lawitzke Orchestration, Automation and Programmability: The Triple Threat for Networking For years, there have been solutions that provide one or two of the three capabilities needed to help organizations gain a competitive advantage. But every so often, we see the … Read More
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