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Also: Michael Natkin, Catherine Hicks, Michael McCollum, Daryll Swer, Doug Smith, Akshay Balaganur, Sushanth Mascaren, Henry Birge-Lee, Michael Slaughter, Shiloh Heurich, Justin Wilson
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/16/26 |  Best of the Hedge: 17, Programming Skills for Network Engineers | Network engineers do not need to become full-time coders to succeed--but some coding skills are really useful. In this episode of the Hedge, David Barrosso (you can find David's github repositories here), Phill Simonds, and Russ White discuss which programming skills are useful for network engineers. | 32m 07s | ||||||
| 10/8/26 | Hedge 322: AI Crash |   Just about everyone is watching the financial markets, either wondering how much better they can get, or when the AI financing bubble is going to crash. Dough Dawson, from POTs and PANs, joins Tom and Russ to talk about the logic of a coming crash, and consider where engineers should be looking for potential future career fields to weather the storm.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-322.mp3   download | 45m 33s | ||||||
| 10/2/26 | Hedge 321: Sockets |   There are many "unsung technologies" in the Internet. While we often think of TCP/IP, various models, Ethernet, and DNS, we don't often think about the lowly socket interface. What is the history of the socket, and why is it important in the world of the Internet? George Michaelson joins Colin Doyle and Russ White to discuss the history and importance of sockets.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-321.mp3   | 56m 38s | ||||||
| 9/25/26 | Hedge 320: Service Consolidation |   Over time, services like DNS and email have been centralized, leaving the Internet itself much more centralized. In this episode of the Hedge, Doug Jacobson joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss centralization and service consolidation.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-320.mp3   download | 35m 59s | ||||||
| 9/18/26 | Hedge 319: Using AI |   AI is everywhere. While there are many questions about whether AI is a bubble, the ethics of AI, and the cultural impact of AI, in this episode of the Hedge Mike Bushong joins Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ to talk about how network engineers can use AI. Are some use cases better than others? Are there pitfalls network engineers should avoid? Listen in and find out.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-319.mp3   download | 53m 51s | ||||||
| 9/11/26 | Hedge 318: Parkinson’s Law (and Bastiat) |   It's time for Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ to gather round the hedge and talk about various items of interest. In this roundtable, we consider what we can learn about product development from Bastiat, and the various ins and outs of Parkinson's Law.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-318.mp3   download | 34m 44s | ||||||
| 8/28/26 | AI toolssoftware development+4 | Derick WinkworthDonald Sharp | AI tools | — | AI toolssoftware testing+3 | — | 49m 51s | ||
| 8/20/26 | AI governanceAI Ops+4 | Colin Cosgrove | — | — | AI governanceAI Ops+4 | — | 43m 01s | ||
| 8/14/26 | strong opinionsoverconfidence+3 | Michael Natkin | — | — | strong opinionsoverconfidence+3 | — | 31m 50s | ||
| 8/7/26 | human infrastructurenetwork engineering+3 | Catherine Hicks | LinkedInCatherine's new book on the psychology of software engineering | — | human infrastructurenetwork engineering+3 | — | 47m 11s | ||
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| 8/1/26 | network engineeringcareer advice+3 | Michael McCollum | — | — | network engineercareer questions+3 | — | 53m 24s | ||
| 7/24/26 | network managementout-of-band networks+3 | Daryll Swer | — | — | out-of-band managementnetwork management+3 | — | 42m 38s | ||
| 7/9/26 | AI dangersengineering+3 | Doug Smith | — | — | AIengineering+3 | — | 51m 06s | ||
| 7/3/26 | AI Opsnetwork management+1 | Akshay BalaganurSushanth Mascaren | — | — | AI Opsnetwork+3 | — | 42m 40s | ||
| 6/19/26 | DNScertificate ownership+3 | Henry Birge-LeeMichael Slaughter+1 | DNScertificate authority | — | DNScertificate information+3 | — | 37m 58s | ||
| 6/11/26 | imposter syndromeengineering+3 | Justin Wilson | — | — | imposter syndromeengineering+5 | — | 36m 27s | ||
| 6/5/26 | Best of the Hedge: Episode 15, Supporting Open Source |   Many companies rely on open source, regardless of whether or not they realize it. In this best of the Hedge episode, Alistair Woodman joins Russ White and Tom Ammon to talk about not only why you should support the open source projects you use, but how you can.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-015.mp3 @nbsp; download $nbsp; Reposting a classic episode this week because I was out of town and didn't get around to editing an episode. | 39m 37s | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | Hedge 307: bgproutes.io |   If you advertise routes into the default free zone (or global Internet), you might struggle with seeing and understanding what they look like "on the other side." While there are many manual tools to help operators with this process, bgproutes.io gives you visibility in the global routing table through interfaces like BMP. Listen to this episode of the Hedge to learn more. | 45m 40s | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | Hedge 306: RPKI Transport |   Synchronizing information across the Internet, at an initial glance, looks like a fairly simple problem to solve. Just copy a file to a host and create a magic protocol, right? Not really. Each kind of data has a fairly unique set of requirements--and RPKI data, used to provide security information for BGP, is no different. Job Snijders joins Tom and Russ to talk about ERIK, a protocol developed to synchronize RPKI records. | 58m 57s | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | Hedge 305: From Security to Networking |   We don't often hear the stories of those who move from some other IT career field into network engineering. Ayush Mishra, a student at University of Colorado Boulder, joins Tom and Russ to discuss why he moved from security to network engineering. | 30m 55s | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | Hedge 304: Deep Dive into a Network Master’s Program |   If you've ever been curious about what an advanced degree in network engineering looks like, you'll want to join us for this episode of the Hedge. Levi Perigo from the University of Colorado at Boulder joins Tom and Russ to talk through what earning a Master's in Networking involves and what kinds of things you would learn. | 36m 23s | ||||||
| 4/23/26 | Hedge 303: Data Centers? |   In this roundtable episode of the Hedge, Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ hang out and talk about data centers--why are we building all these things again? Our second topic is the FCC's ban on non-US made home routers. Was this the right thing to do? Was it the wrong thing to do? Were there any other policy options? | 31m 44s | ||||||
| 4/17/26 | Hedge 302: Communications in Biological Systems |   What does biology have to do with computer networks? Much more than you might think. Communications systems, after all, need to solve the same problems--and they often use the same kinds of tools. In this episode of the Hedge, Emily Reeves and Joe Deweese join Russ and Tom to talk about a recent paper comparing computer communications to biological communications. | 54m 30s | ||||||
| 4/10/26 | Best of the Hedge: Episode 30, Network Fundamentals |   What are networking fundamentals, and why are they important? Join us for this repost of a classic Hedge discussion with Ethan, Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ. | 52m 10s | ||||||
| 4/3/26 | Hedge 301: SONiC |   What's the deal with SONiC? Is it easy to build and use, or hard? Is it something you should be looking at? Jeff Doyle joins Russ and Tom to look at the SONiC operating system, ecosystem, and deployment. | 49m 35s | ||||||
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