# The Routing Intent by Leonardo Furtado

> Where network engineering meets clarity, scale, and purpose.

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## Posts
- [The Dashboard Is Green. The Customer Is Still Down.](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/the-dashboard-is-green-the-customer-is-still-down): What Jeff Bezos’s defense of anecdotes can teach us about network observability
- [FAANG Is Not an Engineering Standard](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/faang-is-not-an-engineering-standard): Why Microsoft and Oracle can be hyperscalers without belonging to Wall Street’s favorite acronym
- [Pulling the Andon Cord in Network Automation – Part 2](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/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.
- [Pulling the Andon Cord in Network Automation – Part 1](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/pulling-the-andon-cord-in-network-automation-part-1): How hyperscalers stop defects from propagating, without stopping the world
- [[IBN] Pipelines: CI, Safety Gates, Simulation, and Staged Delivery](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/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
- [Autonomous Edge Routing Is Local Intelligence Under Global Intent](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/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.
- [When Route Reflectors Lie: Real-World BGP Divergence and the Habits That Cause It](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/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.
- [Your Configs Are Fine, Your State Is Not: A Practical Guide to Inconsistent Network State – Part 3](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/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.
- [Your Configs Are Fine, Your State Is Not: A Practical Guide to Inconsistent Network State – Part 2](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/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
- [[IBN] The Repo Layout](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/new-post-6911): How your teams can organize intent, code, and network delivery without turning Git into a junk drawer
- [Your Configs Are Fine, Your State Is Not: A Practical Guide to Inconsistent Network State – Part 1](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/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.
- [[IBN] Modeling Intent: The Data Models That Don’t Collapse at Scale](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/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”
- [Letting the Badges Expire, Keeping the Bar High](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/letting-the-badges-expire-keeping-the-bar-high): What continuous learning really looks like, and why CCDE became a strategic tool instead of another line on a CV.
- [[IBN] What “Intent-Based Networking” Actually Means](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/new-post): And the components you must have (not just the ones vendors put on slides)
- [JSON Bourne: A Field Guide to JSON for Network Engineers](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/json-bourne-a-field-guide-to-json-for-network-engineers): What JSON is, how it actually works, and how to use it as the lingua franca of modern network automation.
- [From Pyramid to Obelisk: Why Killing Junior Roles Destroys Your Future Talent](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/from-pyramid-to-obelisk-why-killing-junior-roles-destroys-your-future-talent): The market wants “ready-made” engineers, but without apprentices, there is no succession, no innovation, and no sustainable career path.
- [Tenets for NetDevOps: How Principles Turn Network Engineers into Leaders](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/tenets-for-netdevops-how-principles-turn-network-engineers-into-leaders): Why “Security First” and “Simplicity Over Complexity” aren’t posters for the wall, but operating rules that shape your decisions, your team, and your career.
- [When the Network Sneezes, the Business Bleeds](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/when-the-network-sneezes-the-business-bleeds): Why manual changes and ad-hoc scripts are no match for the financial, operational, and human cost of modern network failures, and how to build a software-centric automation strategy instead.
- [Beyond Scripts: Rethinking Network Automation as a Software System](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/beyond-scripts-rethinking-network-automation-as-a-software-system): What hyperscale engineers figured out 15 years ago—and how you can apply the same mindset without needing hyperscale traffic.
- [Beyond the Algorithm: Building a Career Platform That Doesn’t Depend on LinkedIn](https://www.theroutingintent.com/p/beyond-the-algorithm-building-a-career-platform-that-doesn-t-depend-on-linkedin): How to use social media—LinkedIn included—to attract real opportunities, without turning yourself into Darth Vader, LORD.