Since you brought it up, there are great things happening in the Ethernet Switching space, just nothing that makes it to the front page of a site like Hacker Ne

Since you brought it up, there are great things happening in the Ethernet Switching space, just nothing that makes it to the front page of a site like Hacker News. I'm an engineer at Arista Networks, where I get to work on some really impressive "hardcode" technologies: ridiculously scalable protocols, very distributed systems, really interesting uptime/redundancy requirements, and much more. However, let's not start idolizing the networking field so quickly. This in an industry with a lot of entrenched interests, which, like in all B2B businesses, leads to a lot of FUD being spread around and glacier-paced rates for adopting new technologies. There's plenty that I envy about the consumer app space. In any case, if you guys are interested in learning more about some of the hard technical problems being tackled in the networking space, I'd be happy to do a couple of writeups exploring the non-consumer world of tech. (And, if that stuff tickles your fancy, we're hiring!)