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Leaky Abstraction and Turing ConfigurationLambdaConf 20252025-05-12
Claim: large systems’ configuration accumulates leaky details until it requires computation to resolve them. Evidence: diagrams of graphs and spanning trees…
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Introduction to Cloud Custodian, simple rules for your Cloud, Cluster, and TerraformKubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 20222022-10-24
Cloud Custodian provides a single YAML policy engine that runs across AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes and Terraform, with both pull and real-time admission…
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NetBox Custom Scripts & PluginsNetwork Automation Summit at Interop 20202020-10-05
NetBox runs Python custom scripts as web forms or via the REST API to perform repeatable business logic, with logging, optional CSV output and a built‑in dry…
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Network Automation Transformation Phase 0: Source of TruthNetwork to Code Networking Summit at Interop 20192019-05-20
Argues that a single authoritative source of truth per data domain (for example device inventory or IPAM) is required for reliable automation, using NetBox as…
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Going Beyond Vendor Zero Touch ProvisioningNetwork to Code Networking Summit at Interop 20192019-05-20
Vendor ZTP stays as the bootstrap but an orchestration layer takes over: a lightweight Flask HTTP endpoint served by an event engine (StackStorm) accepts…
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What is an object, really? OR When is an object actually a function?RubyFuza 20142014-02-06
Ruby code shows that a class is a runtime object and can be cloned, reassigned and stored in variables, so class is an instance and methods live as operations…
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Do It Yerself, RubeRubyfuza 20132013-02-01
Finds 29 configuration gems and shows that picking one costs more time than writing a tiny Ruby solution that reads a single file for one app one config…
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