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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jun 29latest
5
Avg engagement / post
4–7
Typical post (engagement)
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
73/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 4 and 7 likes + reposts (median 5) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: A few weeks ago we published the draft of Computer Networks: A S · 12 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
3 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
5.8×
Follows 233 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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To some degree, the hyperscalers can force the world to be the way they want, e.g., by enforcing more uniformity in their networks and even developing their own networking code (see Jupiter, SONiC). This is rarely the case for traditional …
With the arrival of the SDN movement, and network virtualization as an application of SDN, it became possible to move the discussion from APIs-on-boxes to APIs for networks. This brought some of the cloud-operator approach to enterprise da…
And good luck trying to get a API-based management interface onto traditional networking products. Customers expect the CLI, so every product group will ship a feature if and only if it is configurable in the CLI. No product team wants to …
The challenges of network operations were made apparent when Bruce was at Cisco, trying to simply achieve consistency of features like fair queuing across disparate product lines. Conway’s Law says, roughly, that a company’s products resem…
We have devoted an entire chapter to network operations, which is something that is often neglected in networking books and classes. This reflects our own background, since we have worked on multiple projects centered on the operation of n…
It’s remarkably satisfying to receive a copy of one of our books in translation. Thanks to our friend Motonori Shindo and the folks at Lambda Note for bringing our book to Japanese readers.
Reality-based Network Operations
A challenge in covering network operations is the tension between covering the way we want the world to be versus the way it is. Cloud-centric APIs are elegant but often unavailable for real-world operation…
Our newsletter this week makes the case that the Internet’s core has become less complex as more functionality has been pushed out to the edge, often in an application-specific overlay. Exhibit A is IP multicast, which never really took of…
Congratulations to Walter Willinger on receiving the @ACM_SIGCOMM award for lifetime contribution. Walter's work on traffic models for the Internet shaped a generation of research. We had Walter's work in mind when we wrote this post abou…
Further details on MOQ and our plans for our books in our newsletter:
https://systemsapproach.org/2026/06/29/scaling-real-time-streaming/
/FIN
MOQ still depends on a overlay of relays, but there are doing more than just copying packets, since there is metadata that enables relay nodes to know which packets are less important and could be safely dropped without trashing the entir…
It’s remarkably satisfying to receive a copy of one of our books in translation. Thanks to our friend Motonori Shindo and the folks at Lambda Note for bringing our book to Japanese readers.
Reality-based Network Operations
A challenge in covering network operations is the tension between covering the way we want the world to be versus the way it is. Cloud-centric APIs are elegant but often unavailable for real-world operation…
Our newsletter this week makes the case that the Internet’s core has become less complex as more functionality has been pushed out to the edge, often in an application-specific overlay. Exhibit A is IP multicast, which never really took of…
Congratulations to Walter Willinger on receiving the @ACM_SIGCOMM award for lifetime contribution. Walter's work on traffic models for the Internet shaped a generation of research. We had Walter's work in mind when we wrote this post abou…
Further details on MOQ and our plans for our books in our newsletter:
https://systemsapproach.org/2026/06/29/scaling-real-time-streaming/
/FIN
MOQ still depends on a overlay of relays, but there are doing more than just copying packets, since there is metadata that enables relay nodes to know which packets are less important and could be safely dropped without trashing the entir…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
discuss.systems
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Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 3× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated52/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie write books and newsletters about the Internet and related computer systems topics.
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