A couple of talks I’ve given over the years.
Gremlins Exposed: Shining a Light on Mischievous Systems
SREcon22 Asia/Pacific — December 2022, Sydney
Developing a personal “gremlin hunting” style for troubleshooting mischievous systems. Working through common scenarios to build the instincts that matter under pressure: picking the right tool for the job, knowing when to scratch the surface versus dig deep, where to look for useful signal, and how (and when) to ask for help.
Are you a bad enough dude to take down your network?
linux.conf.au 2017
An introduction to managing network infrastructure as code with Trigger, an open-source Python automation framework. Starting from the premise that a switch is “just a Unix box with lots of NICs,” the talk moves past manual, error-prone device administration to show how to operate a whole fleet programmatically: running commands across many devices at once (Commando), pluggable device inventories (NetDevice), structured CLI parsing with TextFSM, securely managed credentials (TACACSRC), and visualising route paths in a Jupyter notebook.