Today’s Full Stack Journey podcast is all about striking out on your own and setting up as an independent.

That’s exactly what Ned Bellavance did back in April of this year.

In this episode, I chat with Ned about leaving a good position at a stable company as an IT consultant to become a full-time creator of educational IT content.

We touch on points including:

* How did he know it was time to strike out on his own?

* How an offer of peanut brittle led to unexpected opportunities and connections.

* What skills from previous roles have served him well in this new adventure?

* What new skills did he need to pick up?

* What were some of the trade-offs of the transition?

* Should listeners consider doing the same?

If you’ve ever thought about starting your own company and working for yourself, this discussion with Ned provides real-world insight into one person’s experience, along with some practical takeaways.

Show Links:

Ned’s 3-month update – Ned In The Cloud

Day Two Cloud – Ned’s Packet Pushers Podcast

Gestalt IT

Tech Field Day

The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives (mentioned by Ned in the context of internal vs. external motivation)

Welcome to Heavy Networking, a uniquely nerdy podcast that puts the network at the center of the universe where it belongs.

Today is a sponsored show with ThousandEyes and we’re going to feast on a smorgasbord of topics: first, a new synthetic transaction monitoring tool from ThousandEyes.

Second, we’ll discuss why performance monitoring is critical to your SD-WAN readiness and ongoing operations.

Third, we’ll explore postmortems on a couple of 2019’s Internet outages, including a major route leak that affected CloudFlare, and what that means when you’re relying on the Internet for critical business applications.

Our guests from ThousandEyes are Alex Henthorn-Iwane, VP of Product Marketing; and Angelique Medina, Director of Product Marketing.

Show Links:

ThousandEyes

Browser Synthetic Monitoring – ThousandEyes

Introducing Internet-Aware Synthetic Transaction Monitoring – ThousandEyes Blog

ThousandEyes Addresses Critical Enterprise Application Performance Visibility Gap With Internet-Aware Synthetics – ThousandEyes

ThousandEyes for Application Delivery – ThousandEyes (PDF)

Visibility for Your Hybrid WAN and SD-WAN Traffic – ThousandEyes

Cloudflare Users Burned by Internet Routing Pile-Up – ThousandEyes

WhatsApp Disruption: Just One Symptom of Broader Route Leak – ThousandEyes

Internet Outage Reveals Reach of China’s Connectivity – ThousandEyes

ThousandEyes sponsors today's Heavy Networking for a wide-ranging episode that explores a new synthetic transaction monitoring feature, discusses why performance monitoring is essential to prepare for SD-WAN rollouts, and walks through postmortems on 2019's biggest Internet outages. Guests Alex Henthorn-Iwane and Angelique Medina join us.

Today's Network Break discusses upgrades to Arista's CloudVision management software, a new ACI partnership between Cisco and Microsoft Azure, a Google pledge to invest in new European data centers, Amazon's pledge to be carbon-neutral by 2040, and more tech news.

Take a Network Break! Arista Networks upgrades its CloudVision management software to accept configuration information from third-party devices, Cisco adds Azure support for its Cloud ACI and APIC controller, and Marvell completes its acquisition of transceiver manufacturer Aquantia.

Datadog declined a $7 billion buyout offer from Cisco ahead of Datadog’s IPO, Google pledges 3 billion euros to build new data centers in Europe, and penetration testers who were arrested after breaking into a courthouse as part of a contracted job are now out on bail.

Amazon promises to be carbon-neutral by 2040, and Chef is the latest tech company to get caught in the tangle of government contracts and employee activism.

Get links to all these stories below.

Sponsor: Cumulus Networks

Cumulus Networks announces a brand-new networking certification: the Cumulus Certified Open Networking Professional. You’ll learn Linux networking fundamentals and become proficient in Cumulus Linux. To find out more, go to cumulusnetworks.com/cert.

Sponsor: ExtraHop

ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. ExtraHop offers complete visibility with machine learning to help you make quick, confident decisions about your IT environment. Explore the ExtraHop Performance Platform at extrahop.com/packetpushers.

Packet Pushers Ignition

Check out Ignition, the Packet Pushers’ premium site with exclusive content including white papers, automation blogs, training videos and more. It’s $99 a year. Subscribe at Ignition.packetpushers.net.

Show Links:

Arista CloudVision Delivers Cloud Principles for Enterprises – Arista Networks

The Multicloud Vision of Cisco’s ACI Anywhere Becomes Reality – Cisco Blog

Cisco Cloud Application Centric Infrastructure on Microsoft Azure Solution Overview – Cisco

Cisco Cloud APIC – Microsoft Azure

Marvell Completes Acquisition of Aquantia – Marvell

Cisco Offered $7 Billion-Plus for DataDog As Company Prepares to IPO – Bloomberg via Yahoo

Google to invest 3 billion euros in European data centers – Reuters

Iowa officials claim confusion over scope led to arrest of pen-testers...

If you are deploying an enterprise QoS scheme, wireless QoS matters to you.

Today, we go through the basics of wireless QoS, covering some of the standards, terminology, and thinking required to get your head around how we can prioritize packets over a shared medium.

You ready for this? I hope so. Our guest today is Ryan Adzima, and he agreed to make us smarter about this topic.

We discuss:

* The major use cases for wireless QoS

* Key wireless QoS standards, including 802.11e-2005 Wireless Multimedia Extensions

* Differences between Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) and Hybrid Coordination Function (HCF)

* How wireless QoS marking works

* More

Sponsor: ExtraHop

ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. ExtraHop offers complete visibility with machine learning to help you make quick, confident decisions about your IT environment. Explore the ExtraHop Performance Platform at extrahop.com/packetpushers.

Sponsor: ITProTV

Get over in-depth technical training from ITProTV. ITProTV offers online instruction in CompTIA, Cisco, VMWare, Microsoft and more. You can stream courses live and on demand on your favorite device. Sign up at itpro.tv/packet and save 25%. Use the code PACKET25 when you check out.

Show Links:

Ryan Adzima on Twitter

Whiskey And Wireless Podcast

Mapping Diffserv to IEEE 802.11 – IETF

Techvangelist – Ryan’s Blog

If you are deploying an enterprise QoS scheme, wireless QoS matters to you. On today's episode, we go through the basics of wireless QoS, covering some of the standards, terminology, and thinking required to get your head around how we can prioritize packets over a shared medium. Our guest is Ryan Adzima.

Your IPv4 addresses are a financial asset because the market for v4 address space is rising. The question is, for how long? Guest Lee Howard joins the IPv6 Buzz podcast crew to discuss the financial implications of selling IPv4 addresses. They also discuss the performance and operational benefits of moving to IPv6.

Your IPv4 addresses are a financial asset. On today’s episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss how to leverage this asset for a financial windfall or to finance a v6 initiative.

The question is, when do IPv4 addresses start to lose their resale value?

Guest Lee Howard joins the IPv6 Buzz crew to discuss these issues.

They also discuss why and how IPv6 is faster than IPv4, and what that means for your business.

Lee is CEO and founder of the IPv6-as-a-Service provider Retevia.

Long recognized as an industry leader in IPv6, Lee led one of the world’s largest IPv6 deployments while at Time Warner Cable.

Lee has also contributed to many IETF RFCs and served on the ARIN board for nearly 10 years.

Topics discussed include:

* How and why IPv6 is much faster than IPv4

* Why it matters that IPv6 is faster than IPv4 from a business standpoint

* The current status of the market for IPv4 addresses and how it’s likely to change

* How IPv4 addresses can help fund an enterprise IPv6 project (and how that will help cloud and IoT adoption)

Thanks for listening!

Show Links:

Retevia

Lee Howard’s Blog

Lee Howard on Twitter

IPv6 Translators in IXPs

Reverse DNS in IPv6 for Internet Service Providers – IETF

Prisoner of IPv4 – Lee’s NANOG76 presentation via YouTube

Your Hosts:

* Ed Horley @ehorley

* Tom Coffeen @ipv6tom

* Scott Hogg @scotthogg

Today's Day Two Cloud podcast explores the struggle of transitioning from traditional infrastructure ops to the public cloud using DevOps principles and new tools. My guest is Aaron Strong, a cloud architect. We talk about how to skill up quickly, where to start, when and where to ask for help, and more.