The importance of designing things the right way the first time - and the problems that pop up if you don't.
The things they don't teach you in school, but are necessary for the job - and the lessons I've learned.
You can never stop learning - A bit on certification studies and random new technologies.
A little about the magic that happens in the background - and sometimes saves the day.
In last weeks post, we took a look at how to set up a chassis cluster on a Juniper SRX Firewall. So now that we have a basic cluster setup – Let’s explore some of the additional options and configuration items. Redundant Ethernet Interfaces So first thing is first – Once you have a cluster configured, you’ll probably want to
So you just unboxed a brand new pair of Juniper SRX firewalls – now what? Well, the first thing you’re likely going to want to do is get the two devices hooked up and clustered together. That should be pretty simple, right? Yeah, mostly – though there are a few variations between device models, and there are a few fine-print
This is a multi-part series – If you just hit this page, please check out the prior posts first! Part 1 – Initial Thoughts Part 2 – Leaning Django Part 3 – Creating the Dashboard Alright – We’re finally at the last step to this project. We already have Django running with a somewhat decent-looking web dashboard. Now the only
This is a multi-part series – If you just hit this page, please check out the prior posts first! Part 1 – Initial Thoughts Part 2 – Leaning Django In the last post, we got Django working well enough to start serving up web requests. That’s a great start – So now it’s on to actually building the project. We’re
I’ve really been meaning to write this out for a while – but since I’ve been doing a lot of interviewing recently, I figured it’s about time. I’ll be completely honest here, the first few iterations of my resume absolutely sucked. I had a family member help me put one together, and I slowly modified it from there – but
This is a multi-part series – If you just hit this page, please check out the prior posts first! Part 1 – Initial Thoughts Once I figured out the overall idea behind what I wanted to do – the next big part was figuring out where to start. As I mentioned in part 1, I had never used Django before
So maybe you’re like me – you’ve done a bit of everything in the past, but now you’ve specialized on something (like networking). Know what the best part of that is? Using all that knowledge and experience to make things happen. In this case, I’m talking about some of my prior experiences in scripting in automation, paired with some pretty
Back a few months ago, I wrote a bit about why it is important to have a good design for IP addressing schemes (part 1 and part 2). As a brief refresher, the situation I found myself in was an environment where practically everything was assigned a 10.x.x.x/16 subnet – even if we only needed a handful of hosts. When
As part of my home lab, I have an older Synology DS411 that I picked up in early 2012. I’ve been using the device since then with 4x 3TB drives as an iSCSI backend to my ESX host. Of course, I’ve also been using the NAS for general file storage (photos, videos, documents, etc). So in late 2014 I decided
So it’s now been over two months since I finished college and obtained my magical piece of paper. It has been interesting to finally have some free time to do things that I want to do, and not having to constantly balance my time between school and work. So now that I’ve had a bit to sit back and take a break,
