Deep Dive2026-05-06
Multi-vendor path tracing: the hard parts
Tracing a packet across IOS, NX-OS, and PAN-OS means reconciling three different ACL syntaxes, two route table formats, and zero shared conventions.
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Practical writeups on multi-vendor networks, fabric design, change detection, and the engineering behind running 13,000+ endpoints through one pipeline.
Engineering2026-05-20
How we detect changes without relying on audit logs
How stripping volatile fields and hashing the rest eliminates false-positive diffs — and why timestamp-based comparisons fail at scale.
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Architecture2026-04-22
Correlating 13,000 endpoints without a CMDB
MAC tables, ARP, DHCP snooping, CDP/LLDP, 802.1X, and APIC hosts — stitched together in the right order, they replace a stale spreadsheet.
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Operations2026-04-08
APIC clustering: failover without the flapping
Configurable thresholds, cooldown windows, and atomic database operations keep your ACI fabric monitored even when controllers go down.
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Product2026-03-25
From six browser tabs to one dashboard
The operational pain that started SAMURAI — and the design decisions that let a single pane of glass replace Cisco Prime, Panorama, FMC, and SSH terminals.
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Operations2026-03-11
Deploying SAMURAI in air-gapped environments
Docker image pull, offline IEEE OUI database, and TLS certificate pinning — everything you need to run SAMURAI without internet access.
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