Moving to a static website using zola and github pages
Static site generators create a website by converting human readable format files i.e markdown into a web page hierarchy. We recently moved our website from being hosted on a Debian virtual machines using Wordpress to be…
Great observability via fast JSON serialization
As we come to the end of this phase of our performance and scale testing, we have turned our attention to the Flock Networks Operations REST API. Flock Networks routing suite v20.3.5 is out now and it can sort and serial…
How many OSPF routers can be deployed in one area ?
This question fits in the same category as “How long is a piece of string ?”. The answer is of course, “it depends”. Back in 1998 whilst working for a router vendor, I was helping design a backbone network for a European…
Moving from C to Rust
I have spent many years systems programming in C. I have been playing around with Rust since 2015 and this year I decided to switch to primarily programming in Rust. This blog post is an attempt to explain why I have mad…
Rust in 2020
I’m a Rust user rather than a Rust developer. I have been writing Rust code since just before the 1.0 release, and have followed the development of the language since then. I believe the future of systems programming is …