Most network engineers want their networks to run without any surprises, but that's often not the case. Traffic anomalies happen, complexity increases and the network gets blamed. Over the past few ...

Python is a word of many meanings. For some, the word may evoke thoughts of snakes or Monty Python. However, in networking, Python refers to a common programming language. Organizations use the Python ...

It’s now more apparent than ever that security is a critical aspect of IT infrastructure, and that devastating data breaches can occur from simple network line hacks. As shown in this book, combining ...

At last year's PyCon in Montréal, Josh Triplett introduced the work he and others have done to port Python to run in the GRUB boot loader. At this year's PyCon in Portland, Oregon, he updated ...