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2026

DNS as an API Proxy: A Pokemon Type Lookup Example
Priority calls with bubble sort
Azure Basic Data Protection

2025

My first look at Vercel
Rage Against Bad Network Diagrams
Egress IP decision tree updated
Integrating Azure Route Server with Infoblox NIOS
Is this a bug in the Infoblox NIOS Azure Marketplace offering?
Service Endpoints. Not as good as a Private Endpoint, but better than nothing.
Checking the health of the Internet
Azure Firewall Prescaling
Azure Private Link Direct Connect
Selling networks the Mad Men way
169.254.169.254: The Instance Metadata IP Address in Azure
Azure Service Tags
168.63.129.16: The Magic IP Address in Azure
Custom icons for Mermaid diagrams in Docusaurus
The network documentation pyramid: why your spreadsheets aren't enough
Azure Global Load Balancer: It's anycast, Jim!
Exporting Azure resources to Terraform code
Dijkstra in OSPF
Azure ExpressRoute Gateway and Public IPs
MCP Inspector
MCP Server for Netbox
Bringing it all together for network automation
HA internet egress using enforza.io
Where to put your cloud
Dual AS for BGP ASN migrations and changes
Modular Networking
Netbox and Terraform
MCP for Netbox
Is MCP the new fad for poor knowledge management?
Azure Private Subnet and IPageddon
Egress IP decision tree
Infrastructure documentation
Useful sed command
The vlan add disaster
Azure Loadbalancer: The NAT device you didn't know you wanted
AWS Route Server vs Azure Route Server
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
It's not just Zero Trust though
Of course it's MTU, but how is it MTU?
Lessons from Svalbard
Azure Latency Surprise: PrivateLink Outperforms VNET Peering
Azure Subnet Peering Part 2
More on FQDN Filtering
Exploring Azure Network Latency: The Fundamentals
Comparing BGP communities in AWS and Azure
Multiple prefixes on a subnet
FizzBuzz Revisited: A Tale of Two Algorithms
Using packet captures to measure firewall latency
The Hidden Cost of Progress
GitHub action to test build of Docusaurus
Microsoft documentation hidden intent
CIDR ranges in AWS and Azure
ExpressRoute construct naming
Aviatrix. What's all that about?
AWS Egress Security
IPv6 Adoption
The prefix limit in Azure Route Server and how it's counted
Where to WAF
Using AWS Route 53 instead of Anycast and RouteServer
Understanding Azure AZ Sharding and Physical Zone Mapping
Azure Subnet Peering
How the internet works

2024

The case for non-technical managers in technical teams
Summary of common search algorithms
Beyond DNS: Implementing Anycast in Azure with Route Server and NVAs
Zen and the art of AI CVs
Ways of finding your IP
The secret IP that turned out to be DNS forwarding.
Cloud Readiness Assessment Methodology
The Power of Intentional Alerting
Longest Prefix Matching
Cloud networking news from Ignite 2024
From Network Blame to Platform Teams
Uploading my Docusaurus site
How to set up Github Actions to publish to S3 website
SD-WAN: A Strategic Step Toward Zero Trust
Transit route prevention with Azure Route Server
Azure Virtual WAN: The Promise vs. Reality
Finding dead DHCP scopes
Egress Security from Cloud
FQDN Filtering
Azure Private Link Services: Enabling Secure and Flexible Network Architectures
A little look at the AWS Gateway Load Balancer

2023

Python Route Summarisation

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