About Software Gone Wild
Software Gone Wild is a vendor-independent podcast focused on real-life Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions and related technologies and architectures, including Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC), cloud computing and network programmability.
We stopped recording the podcast in 2026 and are hoping you'll enjoy our past episodes.
Podcast hosts
Why do we need another podcast?
Networking vendors promote their SDN/NFV/SDDC solutions as revolutionary inventions, conveniently forgetting that smart network engineers programmed and orchestrated their networks, or automatically provisioned network services for the last 20 years. These solutions are field-tested and have been in production use for years (contrary to some of the emerging vendor-promoted technologies), and yet nobody talks about them.
The authors of this podcast try to uncover these hidden gems, give their authors/users some additional exposure, and help the listeners understand the challenges they might face when implementing a network automation/orchestration solution.
What can I expect to hear on the podcast?
Early guests included Luke Gorrie, author of open-source virtual switch, David Barosso, network architect @ Spotify, Paolo Lucente, author of pmacct (an open-source Netflow collector), Elisa Jasinska, network toolsmith @ Netflix, and numerous other networking engineers with hands-on network automation experience.
For more information, why don't you listen to the podcast?