David Erickson

David Erickson is the co-founder and CEO at Forward Networks. David holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford. He is a contributor to the OpenFlow spec and the author of Beacon, the OpenFlow controller at the core of commercial products from Big Switch Networks, Cisco and others, and open source controllers such as Floodlight and OpenDaylight. His thesis used SDN to improve virtualized data center performance.

Query Your Network Like a Database

March 14, 2019 | DevNetOps, GraphQL, network automation, OpenConfig

Network process automation is an often-overlooked component of DevOps. Incorporating DevOps philosophies toward networking, or DevNetOps, can lead to even greater process improvements and more flexible deployments. Fortunately, it’s becoming even easier ...