The Routing Intent by
Leonardo Furtado

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Featured

May 31, 2025

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4 min read

Why I Created The Routing Intent

We don’t need more tutorials. We need better engineers. Here's how I plan to help.

Leonardo Furtado

Next Hop Ireland

This is How I’m Giving Back to Ireland (and You Can Be Part of It)

Aug 3, 2025

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5 min read

This is How I’m Giving Back to Ireland (and You Can Be Part of It)

A new way to grow talent, build community, and transform lives

Leonardo Furtado

Career Growth

Your Network Is Not a Toilet: Stop Flushing Infrastructure Expertise

Jul 21, 2025

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24 min read

Your Network Is Not a Toilet: Stop Flushing Infrastructure Expertise

We’ve abstracted the pipes, fired the plumbers, and now we wonder why the cloud stinks. This is your warning.

Leonardo Furtado

Architecture and Design

The Wet Backbone: Why Cloud Infrastructure Depends on Subsea Cables

Jul 2, 2025

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32 min read

The Wet Backbone: Why Cloud Infrastructure Depends on Subsea Cables

Look down, not up! The Cloud rides on subsea cables

Leonardo Furtado

Careers at FAANG

Build Systems, Not Sleep-Deprived Heroes: Inside an Autonomous Remediation Pipeline

Dec 1, 2025

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21 min read

Build Systems, Not Sleep-Deprived Heroes: Inside an Autonomous Remediation Pipeline

If your network still relies on people to fix the same faults over and over, it’s not resilient. It’s fragile. Here’s how we changed that.

Leonardo Furtado

Architecture and Design

When $100 Million Cloud Bills Make Sense

Sep 8, 2025

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24 min read

When $100 Million Cloud Bills Make Sense

Not all expensive cloud bills are bad, and not all cheap ones are smart. Learn how to interpret cloud cost through the lens of architecture, performance, and business alignment.

Leonardo Furtado

Articles

Network Automation

When Route Reflectors Lie: Real-World BGP Divergence and the Habits That Cause It

May 1, 2026

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15 min read

When Route Reflectors Lie: Real-World BGP Divergence and the Habits That Cause It

A deep dive into a hidden RR cluster split, how consistency tooling changes the story, and the cultural anti-patterns that quietly invite inconsistent network state.

Leonardo Furtado

Careers at FAANG

Your Configs Are Fine, Your State Is Not: A Practical Guide to Inconsistent Network State – Part 3

Apr 27, 2026

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25 min read

Your Configs Are Fine, Your State Is Not: A Practical Guide to Inconsistent Network State – Part 3

Turning intent into reality with transactional rollouts, consistency-aware observability, and controlled auto-correction.

Leonardo Furtado

Careers at FAANG

Your Configs Are Fine, Your State Is Not: A Practical Guide to Inconsistent Network State – Part 2

Apr 20, 2026

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18 min read

Your Configs Are Fine, Your State Is Not: A Practical Guide to Inconsistent Network State – Part 2

When the network lies: detecting and reconciling inconsistent state at scale

Leonardo Furtado

Network Automation

Apr 17, 2026

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14 min read

[IBN] The Repo Layout

How your teams can organize intent, code, and network delivery without turning Git into a junk drawer

Leonardo Furtado

Careers at FAANG

Your Configs Are Fine, Your State Is Not: A Practical Guide to Inconsistent Network State – Part 1

Apr 13, 2026

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25 min read

Your Configs Are Fine, Your State Is Not: A Practical Guide to Inconsistent Network State – Part 1

How hyperscale teams compare intent vs reality, validate control and data planes, and build reconciliation loops so silent inconsistencies don’t become outages.

Leonardo Furtado

Network Automation

[IBN] Modeling Intent: The Data Models That Don’t Collapse at Scale

Apr 10, 2026

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13 min read

[IBN] Modeling Intent: The Data Models That Don’t Collapse at Scale

What intent actually looks like in a real repo, without turning into “config templates in YAML”

Leonardo Furtado

The Routing Intent byLeonardo Furtado

Featured

Why I Created The Routing Intent

This is How I’m Giving Back to Ireland (and You Can Be Part of It)

Your Network Is Not a Toilet: Stop Flushing Infrastructure Expertise

The Wet Backbone: Why Cloud Infrastructure Depends on Subsea Cables

Build Systems, Not Sleep-Deprived Heroes: Inside an Autonomous Remediation Pipeline

When $100 Million Cloud Bills Make Sense

Articles

When Route Reflectors Lie: Real-World BGP Divergence and the Habits That Cause It

Your Configs Are Fine, Your State Is Not: A Practical Guide to Inconsistent Network State – Part 3

Your Configs Are Fine, Your State Is Not: A Practical Guide to Inconsistent Network State – Part 2

[IBN] The Repo Layout

Your Configs Are Fine, Your State Is Not: A Practical Guide to Inconsistent Network State – Part 1

[IBN] Modeling Intent: The Data Models That Don’t Collapse at Scale

The Routing Intent by Leonardo Furtado

The Routing Intent by
Leonardo Furtado

The Routing Intent
by Leonardo Furtado