Network States In A Kafka Topic, For Easy Consumption
YANG Message Keys for Message Broker Integration is a brand new IETF draft, with the great potential to ease network operations. In one sentence, it’s about a mechanism to define […]
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Intent in« Realizing the Closed Loop Automation »
Last week, I had the pleasure to present a keynote on “Intent in « Realizing the Closed Loop Automation » in the 5th International Workshop on Intent-Based Networking (WIN’2025), organized by the […]
Knowledge Graph as Preparation for LLMs, the Logical Next Step in Networking Data Modeling!
While the LLMs will become commodities, and therefore will come and go (do I need to mention DeepSeek these days, or you have been living in a cave lately?), what […]
Brand New IETF Working Group: Network Management Operations (NMOP)
One paragraph summary (TL;DR) of this blog: there is a new cool NMOP just working group just created, with 4 important operational topics (YANG-Push & Kafka, anomaly detection and incident […]
YANG-Push & Apache Kafka Integration
For a couple of IETF meetings, the initiative around “YANG-Push & Kafka integration” has been growing and growing, over the last few IETFs there have been packed-room side meetings on […]
Service Assurance For Intent-based Network: Two New IETF Standards Approved!
It’s obvious that networks become more and more complex these days … for a “network” definition that encompasses: the network itself, the cloud, the application and the end user environment, […]
Exposing Routers Capabilities during Design and Implementation Times
Network automation is important, as I’ve been stressing for years. See for example this blog: “Automation is as good as your data models, their related metadata, your toolchain, and what you […]