Rick Donato

Today, we will look at a new tool to hit the market named Slurp'it. Which defines itself as: a powerful and easy-to-use network discovery solution ... That sounds great, right? But what exactly does this mean? We will look at some of Slurp'it's features, the

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Have you ever found yourself patiently waiting as Pip installs the various Python packages needed for your latest project? Well, the good folks at Astral aim to solve this common frustration with their new tool: uv! What is Uv? uv is a fast (10-100 times faster) high-speed package installer and

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What is Pandas? Pandas is a Python library for performing data exploration, manipulation and analysis that allows you to work with data in easy-to-use Panda data structures, namely DataFrames. Pandas' popularity can be thanked based on its ease of use, flexibility and support in helping data scientists work with

What is Difftastic? Difftasic is a CLI tool that allows you to compare files based on their syntax rather than rely on line-by-line matching. For example, this means that if you had the following files, Difftastic would not detect any differences. $ cat vlans_1.json { "vlans": [100, 200,

In this post, we will answer the question, "What is Schema Validation?". But before we do, let's set the stage by discussing a fundamental aspect of network automation: Data. And when I say data, I mean "good" data! Data Data is required for everything

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For a good few years, Black has been the defacto Python formatter. With the recent release of a new tool called Ruff, which describes itself as: An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter ... This raises the question: What is the difference between Black and Ruff? First of all, for