Rick Donato

Today I want to share a very cool feature of SuzieQ, which I've been using a lot at the moment, but before I dive in, for those of you who are new to SuzieQ... SuzieQ is an observability platform that allows you to query your network using a

Network Automation Newsletter. Edition 012 - Oct2021

The other day I was made aware (thanks to Dinesh Dutt) of a small tip when working with and iterating over Pandas DataFrames. If you`ve used Python and tools like Batfish (course here) or Suzieq (course here) to automate your network, then you may be familiar with DataFrames. However,

Just a quick email to say that the Batfish Bootcamp doors close today. So this is the last chance to register for the EU session. If you are looking to learn how to build CI pipelines with Github Actions, or perform automated impact analysis then this is the course for

Just a quick mail to let you know that there is only 1 week left until the industries very first Batfish Bootcamp kicks off. That's right! 1.5 days of pure network modelling and analysis goodness! In the bootcamp we will be covering ... Batfish Fundamentals ✅ Batfish basics. ✅ How

You may (or may not) have seen the release of the Batfish 101 webinar yesterday. Where we covered: ✅ What is Batfish? ✅ What can Batfish do? ✅ How to setup Batfish ✅ Demo - Snapshots, panda DataFrames (TL;DR), along with how to analyse network config and control-plane state (OSPF/BGP). Well, I

What is Batfish? For those of you who are new to Batfish, it's a multi-vendor analysis tool that models your network, in short, this allows us to analyse the network and perform queries that we`ve never been able to do before using traditional methods (i.e pings,

Don't get me wrong Pip is a great package manager but there is one thing that had always bugged me, that was having all the dependencies within a single file. For example having all of your development dependencies (linters, formators etc) and your application dependencies (Scrapli, Nornir etc)

A Quick Sneak Peek Here's a quick sneak peek into what's been happening in the Packet Coders community ... * New monthly guest speaker sessions from industry leaders in the network automation space. * August will see: * Guest speaker John Capobianco, where we will be learning about his journey