I had the pleasure and honor of participating as a guest on the Software Gone Wild podcast with Ivan and Chris. Link: IP Fabric with Gian-Paolo Boarina on Software Gone Wild - Episode 107 Info I was quite nervous during the recording. This was the first podcast I participated in, please be kind in the comments.

My blog has been selected again as a finalist in the Most Inspirational category of the 2019 IT Blog Awards, hosted by Cisco. The goal of the IT Blog Awards is to recognize the broader community of IT bloggers I am particularly happy to be in the Most Inspirational category. Imagining that my blog may inspire somebody …

A discussion about the Myths of the Open Office This is part two of the Open Office series. Read part one for a better context. The Myth of Spontaneous Collaboration Let's start with this assumption: Open Office is the wrong least bad solution for a real problem. Open Office is usually implemented by managers with the …

Open offices can be harsh environments, you never know what dangers are hidden behind you until the interruption arrives. Productivity plummets, concentration is gone, the thread of reasoning destroyed in a moment. All of this caused by a casual question, a polite salute, an unsolicited tentative of small talk: Source …

Writing code today often means interacting with API of many products. For me it means the possibility to integrate existing tools or create new functions. Sometimes it is just a matter to create a small utility. The Problem Meraki Dashboard does not include a page that shows the CDP/LLDP neighbors. }Can we do better …

A few weeks ago Krypt.co appeared in my Twitter timeline so I decided to try it. Here's the result. Two factor authentication (2FA is the way to go for authenticated access for anything than is more than a lab. I use an Yubikey to protect my personal accounts and the password manager1 I use to maintain unique password …

During Cisco Live this year I had a chance to stop by IP Fabric booth and exchange a quick chat about their product and the problem they're trying to solve. After the event I had the opportunity to run a trial to better understand the product and the features if offers. What struck me was that the product solves …

String manipulation is a skill that is useful almost on daily basis for most IT professionals. Search, replace, count, filter, order text files from the command line make the process repeatable and fast, without too much clickety-click. Awk, sed, sort, cut, uniq are powerful tools to master. Today my focus is on sed …

Curl and Meraki API Sometimes small problems are opportunities to learn something new or apply skills seldom used. I often try to do things differently or new paths, sometimes just to avoid boredom, but also to improve myself. This is one of the pillars of essentialism and Kaizen that I try to apply to my work and …

On May 10th I had a chance to attend again ITNOG in Bologna. Even if ITNOG seems to be an event with focus on ISP I find it very educative for anyone working in the enterprise market. The boundaries between enterprise and ISP network are a common ground for negotiation about connections, routing, security, SLA. Sun Tzu …

AKIPS network monitoring. Network documentation and monitoring are topics that never lose interest to me. Over the years I worked with many products, Nedi, Observium, Librenms,, NetBox, Icinga, NetShot, Smokeping to name a few. Each product has its strengths and weaknesses that in some cases are nothing more than the …

Another Cisco Live went with all its usual new product announcements and marketing drives for the next big thing. This year I have been more busy than usual with meetings with customers and I have not attended all the technical I planned on my schedule. Skipping sessions actually allowed me to pay more attention to the …

Keeping up with the new releases of the various manufacturers is an important part of the job of every network engineer. Usually it is enough to see the videos available online but from time to time it is necessary to take one more step. Cisco has released the new Catalyst 9000 family that integrates with 1/20/2019 …

A community value is more than the sum of its members. Cisco Champion members make it special, I'm honored to be again part of it this year.

I really enjoy discussing network design and deploy details with colleagues, customers and fellow network engineer. I find these discussions challenging, stimulating. An open, sincere and collaborative discussion gives a chance to better understand the real needs, fears, doubts of other professionals and to validate …