Dip Singh

“The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” - F.

“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it” - Lord Kelvin

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.

“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.” - John Naisbitt

“It is not easy to become an educated person.” - Richard Hamming

“No exponential is forever, but we can delay ‘forever’.” — Gordon Moore

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. - John Tukey

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. - Niles Bohr

The Median Isn’t the Message - Stephen Jay Gould

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.- Robert Frost

In a previous post, I discussed how Maximum Flow problems can be used for network optimization.

In this post, I will be discussing a paper published by the Internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock, titled “Keep the Pipe Just Full, But No Fuller”.

ECMP is crucial for scaling and performance in modern data centers and wide-area networks, which rely on hash-based path selection.

Recently, I’ve been contemplating the concept of fairness, and I see interesting parallels between being a parent and being a network professional.

Motivation In our rapidly advancing world, communication speeds are increasing at a fast pace.

Motivation I recently read Google’s latest sigcomm paper: Jupiter Evolving on their Datacenter fabric evolution.

Network design discussions often involve anecdotal evidence, and the arguments for preferring something follow up with “We should do X because at Y place, we did this.”.

A Markov chain or Markov process is a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event.