Getting Cloud Networking into your Head
Getting Cloud Networking into your Head
This year I had the privilege of presenting my perspective on cloud networking to two conferences: DevOpsDays Austin 2024 and KCDC 2024. This talk is an analysis of a LOT of psychic debugging situations I had resolved where the onlookers were genuinely surprised that I was able to diagnose the problem and suggest a solution that usually worked (or at least got them closer to working). Most of the time, especially in cloud environments, the issue was networking related. Even in non-cloud environments, it was usually a network issue that the developer hadn't considered. What I was doing was "software whispering" and for the uninitiated, it felt like magic. However, I don't like being a magician (or an illusionist) so I thought this talk would help codify some of my thinking to make it easier for others to peek behind the curtain.