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Careers at FAANG

Version the Network: GitOps for Routing Policy

Aug 15, 2025

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3 min read

Version the Network: GitOps for Routing Policy

Routing policy shouldn't live in terminals or tribal memory. This is your blueprint for building versioned, automated, and auditable networks using GitOps.

Leonardo Furtado
Leonardo Furtado

Packets & Python

Chapter 14: Python Collections in Action - A Network Engineer’s Walkthrough

Aug 11, 2025

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10 min read

Chapter 14: Python Collections in Action - A Network Engineer’s Walkthrough

Learn how each Python data type maps to real-world networking tasks in this guided exercise packed with lessons and logic.

Leonardo Furtado
Leonardo Furtado

Careers at FAANG

What You Declared ≠ What You Run

Aug 8, 2025

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2 min read

What You Declared ≠ What You Run

In hyperscale networks, drift is constant. Here’s how the best engineering teams detect, visualize, and fix issues, all while avoiding burnout among engineers.

Leonardo Furtado
Leonardo Furtado

Packets & Python

Chapter 13: Choosing the Right Python Collection for Network Automation

Aug 4, 2025

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2 min read

Chapter 13: Choosing the Right Python Collection for Network Automation

Confused between lists, sets, tuples, and dictionaries? This article breaks down when to use each, specifically for network automation.

Leonardo Furtado
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
Leonardo Furtado

Careers at FAANG

Change Control Isn’t Enough: You Need a Deployment System

Jul 31, 2025

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3 min read

Change Control Isn’t Enough: You Need a Deployment System

Safe deployment isn’t "luck." It’s about simulation, canary rollouts, automated rollback, and owning the system end-to-end.

Leonardo Furtado
Leonardo Furtado

Packets & Python

Chapter 12: Python Dictionaries for Network Engineers

Jul 28, 2025

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2 min read

Chapter 12: Python Dictionaries for Network Engineers

Learn how Python dictionaries model your network’s logic and power automation scripts from config parsing to telemetry analysis.

Leonardo Furtado
Leonardo Furtado

Careers at FAANG

Survival Networking: Resilience at Scale – Part 3

Jul 25, 2025

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2 min read

Survival Networking: Resilience at Scale – Part 3

Built to bend, not break: Real strategies for keeping global platforms alive during major failures.

Leonardo Furtado
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
Leonardo Furtado

Careers at FAANG

Survival Networking: Resilience at Scale – Part 2

Jul 20, 2025

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1 min read

Survival Networking: Resilience at Scale – Part 2

Discover how hyperscale networks prepare for the unexpected with precomputed failover paths, dynamic traffic shaping, and global-scale coordination.

Leonardo Furtado
Leonardo Furtado
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The Routing Intent
by Leonardo Furtado

Where network engineering meets clarity, scale, and purpose.

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