Gabrielle West

Gabrielle West is an experienced tech and travel writer currently based in New York City. Her work has appeared on Ladders, Ultrahuman, and more.
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Gabrielle West is an experienced tech and travel writer currently based in New York City. Her work has appeared on Ladders, Ultrahuman, and more.

The real reason network outages take so long to diagnose

The network goes down. The alerts fire. And none of it tells you where the problem actually is. Network outages are nothing new. What still...

When vendors simplify, engineers pay the price

What looks simple in dashboards and tools often hides the underlying complexity, making networks harder to understand, troubleshoot, and control. “Simplification” has become one of...

The myth of simple network design

What looks like simple network design at deployment often turns into bottlenecks, outages, security gaps, and technical debt once real workloads arrive. Sometimes, the short...

SNMP and the limits of polling-based network monitoring

SNMP still works, but modern networks are pushing it beyond its design limits. As scale, automation, and security demands rise, its role is shrinking. SNMP...

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