Heavy Networking

Heavy Networking is an unabashedly nerdy dive into all things networking. On air since 2010, it’s the flagship show of the Packet Pushers podcast network.

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Show 282: Why We're Stuck With Middleboxes And How To Improve Them

Posted April 1, 2016

Middleboxes--that is, non-routing and non-switching network devices such as firewalls and caches--can be expensive, hard to manage, and prone to failure....

Show 282: Why We’re Stuck With Middleboxes And How To Improve Them

Posted April 1, 2016

Middleboxes--that is, non-routing and non-switching network devices such as firewalls and caches--can be expensive, hard to manage, and prone to failure....

Datanauts 029: The Evil Behind Long-Distance vMotion & Stretched L2 Domains

Posted March 30, 2016

The Datanauts explore the network and application issues that make moving VMs from one data center to another dangerous, and share ways to enable it...

The Next Level: Agile Networking Part 1

Posted March 29, 2016

Agile is a set of principles for software development, but its values and goals can be generally applied in other contexts. This episode explores how...

PQ Show 75: Talking Network Analytics And Telemetry

Posted March 29, 2016

Today we talk about how network analytics and telemetry differ from traditional monitoring, what new data sources & techniques are available, and...