This site is an attempt to document the lessons lessons learned and tech
used in the process of building a large-scale lab which represents an enterprise
network (complete with a mix of modern and legacy systems), an IX-peered ASN (AS25955),
and a modern facilities-based CLEC (Rice Telecom Corporation).
Documented here is my experiences with a variety of tech stacks (ranging from modern cloud
platforms to mainframe systems) and networking systems (from SS7 to IP). My very complete
environment allows me to gain a more complete view of how these systems work and interact
while still having the flexibility to stress-test them that is unavailable in production
deployments. I 've also worked in a wide range of customer and client environments, and
I've documented interesting findings seen "in the wild."
In addition to technical content on the planning, development, and maintenance of the
above, this site also holds my thoughts and observations on the current state of the
tech industry, currently in vouge trends, and platforms. All thoughts are strictly my own,
and any experiences from consulting projects are anonymized and shared with permission.
Articles are broken down by category and are listed to the right.