Month: August 2015
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Its stateful all the way down.
Statefulness is a pain in the ass. But it brings with it enough value to keep people interested in maintaining state. And really, everything is stateful, even things that claim to be stateless. How so? There are two kinds of state: peer state and configuration state. Peer-state is what you hold in your arp and…
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Corruption versus Corrosion
There is, in the United States, a vocal angry outrage over what is being called corruption, particularly in the context of government. As a place where corruption hasn’t been a problem for many many years, this might seem odd. What are we really angry about?