EP 523 | APRIL 21, 2O25

CVE's Reprieve, Google WAN For Sale, NVIDIA Pledges More US-Made Chips

Lots of chip-related news in this week's Network Break including NVIDIA promising to make Blackwell chips in the US, AMD and TSMC hitting a 2nm milestone, TSMC cleaning up in Q1, and ASML warning of tariff uncertainty. Plus Google offers its Cloud WAN to compete with MPLS, Google's ad biz is ruled a monopoly, and more IT news. | LISTEN NOW

SPONSORED | APRIL 21, 2O25

Network Observability AIOps Tips for Success (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking AI readiness with sponsor Broadcom. More specifically, getting your network observability ready to support AI operations. This isn’t just a hardware or software issue. It’s also a data issue. We’ll get some tips with our guest Jeremy Rossbach, Chief Technical Evangelist and Lead Product Marketing Manager at Broadcom. | LISTEN NOW

EP 101 | APRIL 22, 2O25

Time for a Cybersecurity Spring Cleaning?

Most organizations have a long list of security holes in the form of unpatched systems and other known but unresolved vulnerabilities. Is it time to hit the big PAUSE button and fix, patch, or mitigate all of that before we resume deploying new systems (and their accompanying risks)? Join us as we tear into whether this is possible, let alone desirable, in real IT organizations in real enterprises. | LISTEN NOW

EP 059 | APRIL 22, 2O25

News Roundup - Oracle Plays Breach Word Games, Fast Flux Worries CISA, AI Package Hallucinations, and More

Once a month, the Packet Protector podcast likes to see what's going on out there with a news roundup. There's a lot happening! Just a few of the stories we cover include attackers adding fast flux to their bag-o-tricks, an active exploit against Ivanti gear, Oracle word games, a new AI threat vector, alleged yet serious access control problems at a hospital, and even more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 270 | APRIL 23, 2O25

Spacelift is Your Infrastructure Glue (Sponsored)

Working with multiple Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools can be painful. Spacelift provides a platform that operates on top of disparate IaC tools, including Ansible, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Terraform, and OpenTofu. Spacelift helps build the automation with and between these tools, creating graphs of graphs that make your dependencies just work. On today’s show, we talk with Marcin Wyszyński and Joey Stout from Spacelift to explain how this product makes IaC tool migration and integration less painful and more automated. | LISTEN NOW

EP 090 | APRIL 23, 2O25

Examining Network Automation's Present and Future With Chris Grundemann

Today we explore the current state of network automation with Chris Grundemann, the founder of Network Automation Forum. Chris gives the history of the Network Automation Forum and AutoCon conference, which aims to blend technology and community. He shares ideas for advancing network automation, and invites other network engineers to participate in shaping the future of the community and network automation. | LISTEN NOW

EP 023 | APRIL 24, 2O25

DNS - Turning Names Into Numbers

The Domain Name System (DNS) keeps the Internet running. On today's N Is For Networking podcast, we talk about how DNS transforms human-readable host names into IP addresses so that Internet traffic can be sent to the right place. We talk about root name servers, Top Level Domains (TLDs), and other elements of the DNS infrastructure. We also learn how and why DNS might be the problem when the Internet doesn't work. This week's bonus material is a discussion on resolvers versus recursers. | LISTEN NOW

EP 012 | APRIL 24, 2O25

Weighing the Cost of Team Interventions

On this episode of Technically Leadership, Chris Leonard joins to talk about the costs of intervention in a team discussion, whether that’s to bring a team back to a topic or to make a decision that needs to be made. We discuss hero culture (both in the team and as the leader), imposter syndrome, and anxiety around speaking up. We also share practical tips on how to intervene, how to minimize the cost of that intervention, and more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 778 | APRIL 25, 2O25

Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Selector (Sponsored)

Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a standard way to link AI models to a variety of data sources and tools. On today's Heavy Networking we get a crash course in MCP from John Capobianco, a network engineer/mad scientist who works at Selector.ai, our sponsor for today's show. We talk about how MCP works, its client-server framework, networking-focused use cases, potential issues and concerns, and more. We also get an update on new features and capabilities in Selector.ai, an AIOps platform built specifically for the network. | LISTEN NOW