2017 Round Up

2017 was a interesting year with a many big life changes for me. I am now engaged to my beautiful fiance and we are planning an international wedding together. I have moved from Brocade Communications to AT&T through a company acquisition, switching my main focus from Opendaylight and SDN to Vyatta Vrouter and NFV. Gone through work VISA renewal in the UK and finally I’ve been accepted in a undergraduate program at Oxford which I am now pursuing.

Papers read

• OVSDB Paper ACM
  
• A generation Lost in the Bazaar
• OVS Design
  
• Code is Law
• The debugging mindset: Understanding the psychology of learning strategies leads to effective problem-solving skills
• Facebook and Information Operations
• The Russian “Firehouse of Falsehoods” Propoganda Model
• A Systematic Analysis of the Juniper Dual EC Incident

Good articles

• https://tech.affirm.com/deep-dive-payments-60f5d17f6c71#.ya9lb1slu
  
• http://takecareblog.com/blog/the-contingency-of-partisanship
  
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14099384
• http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/can-a-living-creature-be-as-big-as-a-galaxy-rp
• http://blog.ffwll.ch/2017/08/github-why-cant-host-the-kernel.html
• https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/fccs-claim-that-one-isp-counts-as-competition-faces-scrutiny-in-court/
• https://blog.cloudflare.com/ip-fragmentation-is-broken/
• https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/10/17/getting-program-software-defined-networks/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/how-facebooks-oracular-algorithm-determines-the-fates-of-start-ups.html
• https://medium.com/graphicfacilitation/all-you-need-to-know-about-whiteboard-markers-2a25d1249911

Projects

• Built a basic slack bot.
• Built a basic twitter bot.
• Start using mutt. I ended up using this guide.
• Created Training environment for protocol/feature training with automated labs.
• Made a website that interacts with a git repository through javascript and API calls.
  
• Published 7 blog posts and 3 youtube training videos.
• Contributed to an open source project.
• Office Lab migration.

Books Read

• Princep’s Fury - Jim Butcher
  
• First Lord’s Fury - Jim Butcher
  
• Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
  
• Nothing is True and Everything is Possible - Peter Pomerantsev
• Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt / David Thomas

Skill Development

• Took RH254
• Taught myself to juggle.
• Bash scripting intermediate.
• Python scripting intermediate.
• IPSec Presentation.
• QEMU/KVM training and workshop delivery.
• I’ve deployed several clusters, automated training environments, and test-beds usinge Ansible.

Places Visited

• Alicante, Spain
• Aguilas, Spain
• Malaga, Spain
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Maine
• New Hampshire
• New York City (Get a rope)
• Prague, Czech Republic
• Stockholm, Sweden
• Plovdiv, Bulgaria