lowpro

Hello HN,

I’m a network engineer at a large US company, and we’ve been having difficulty with ensuring our route advertisements are correct when making summarization and firewall changes.

This has caused outages recently, especially as we use both Azure and AWS as well as on prem data centers so our route tables have become very large and complex (roughly 4000 routes and growing).

Is there a resource around testing of routing? For applications I know there are both unit tests and end to end system to tests to make sure it works as expected. Is there something similar in networking?

I've been trying to figure out how to build a "static" website that displays data pulled from a database. I know SQL fairly well, but have no experience in web dev. I would think website builders would have basic functionality for this, but maybe it's a much harder problem than I'm thinking.

I would also think this could be done on the server side, so the user should never interact directly with the database. Is web development usually difficult to find answers for? I work in networking so rarely interactive with web dev.

Thank you.