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by esseph 106 days ago
I mean, BGP EVPN is the datacenter standard. (Linux infra / k8s / networking guy)
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There are standards but actually designing a sane network architecture, buying all of the correct network hardware, and configuring all of the software to properly use that hardware is hard. At my company we have a team of about 20 people whose job it is to just design, install, and run the network.
> There are standards but actually designing a sane network architecture, buying all of the correct network hardware, and configuring all of the software to properly use that hardware is hard. At my company we have a team of about 20 people whose job it is to just design, install, and run the network.

Network engineers do network engineering :)