The Routing Intent by Leonardo Furtado

The Routing Intent by Leonardo Furtado

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Why I Created The Routing Intent

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
Leonardo Furtado
Next Hop IrelandNext Hop Ireland
This is How I’m Giving Back to Ireland (and You Can Be Part of It)

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

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Packets & PythonPackets & Python
Chapter 13: Choosing the Right Python Collection for Network Automation

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 IrelandNext Hop Ireland
This is How I’m Giving Back to Ireland (and You Can Be Part of It)

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

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 & PythonPackets & Python
Chapter 12: Python Dictionaries for Network Engineers

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 FAANGCareers at FAANG
Survival Networking: Resilience at Scale – Part 3

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 GrowthCareer Growth
Your Network Is Not a Toilet: Stop Flushing Infrastructure Expertise

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 FAANGCareers at FAANG
Survival Networking: Resilience at Scale – Part 2

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
Careers at FAANGCareers at FAANG
Survival Networking: What I Learned About Resilience at Scale from FAANG

Survival Networking: What I Learned About Resilience at Scale from FAANG

Lessons from the trenches of big tech: why traditional networking breaks, and how to engineer for resilience, scale, and career growth.

Leonardo Furtado
Leonardo Furtado
Packets & PythonPackets & Python
Chapter 11: Working with Python Sets and Frozensets in Network Automation

Chapter 11: Working with Python Sets and Frozensets in Network Automation

Powerful, duplicate-free collections that simplify filtering, matching, and set logic in your scripts.

Leonardo Furtado
Leonardo Furtado
Network AutomationNetwork Automation
Why NetOps Is Still Stuck in the Stone Age

Why NetOps Is Still Stuck in the Stone Age

Most network teams believe they’ve automated, but all they’ve done is script faster failure.

Leonardo Furtado
Leonardo Furtado
Packets & PythonPackets & Python
Chapter 10: Boolean Logic in Python: Building Smart Automation Decisions

Chapter 10: Boolean Logic in Python: Building Smart Automation Decisions

Learn how Python’s True and False values help you make decisions, automate workflows, and control logic in real-world network engineering scripts.

Leonardo Furtado
Leonardo Furtado
Packets & PythonPackets & Python
Chapter 9: Mastering Tuples, the Immutable Containers for Reliable Network Data

Chapter 9: Mastering Tuples, the Immutable Containers for Reliable Network Data

Learn how Python tuples bring structure, safety, and clarity to your network automation scripts

Leonardo Furtado
Leonardo Furtado
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