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

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

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

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

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

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

Architecture and Design

Jun 19, 2026

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15 min read

The Dashboard Is Green. The Customer Is Still Down.

What Jeff Bezos’s defense of anecdotes can teach us about network observability

Leonardo Furtado

Careers at FAANG

Jun 15, 2026

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8 min read

FAANG Is Not an Engineering Standard

Why Microsoft and Oracle can be hyperscalers without belonging to Wall Street’s favorite acronym

Leonardo Furtado

Careers at FAANG

May 18, 2026

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37 min read

Pulling the Andon Cord in Network Automation – Part 2

At scale, a “small” defect doesn’t fail loudly: it propagates quietly, fast, and everywhere you targeted.

Leonardo Furtado

Careers at FAANG

May 11, 2026

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39 min read

Pulling the Andon Cord in Network Automation – Part 1

How hyperscalers stop defects from propagating, without stopping the world

Leonardo Furtado

Network Automation

May 8, 2026

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13 min read

[IBN] Pipelines: CI, Safety Gates, Simulation, and Staged Delivery

How a PR becomes a safe network change without turning “merge” into a leap of faith

Leonardo Furtado

Careers at FAANG

May 4, 2026

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25 min read

Autonomous Edge Routing Is Local Intelligence Under Global Intent

How hyperscale networks give edge POPs the freedom to make fast, local routing decisions without breaking global policy, convergence, or security.

Leonardo Furtado

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