Wake UP X – Securing Tomorrow, Empowering Today with Efren L. Salazar
Wake UP X - Securing Tomorrow, Empowering Today with Efren L. Salazar
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"Wake Up X: Securing Tomorrow, Empowering Today with Efren L. Salazar" is your go-to podcast for bridging the gap between cybersecurity, business, and personal empowerment. Hosted by Efren L. Salazar, each episode dives deep into the latest trends in cybersecurity, offers motivational insights, and provides actionable business strategies. Our guests range from upper management to newcomers in the industry, sharing their unique stories of success, struggles, and the lessons learned along the way.
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Wake Up X: Securing Tomorrow, Empowering Today with Efren L. Salazar” is your go-to podcast for bridging the gap between cybersecurity, business, and personal empowerment. Hosted by Efren L. Salazar, each episode dives deep into the latest trends in cybersecurity, offers motivational insights, and provides actionable business strategies. Our guests range from upper management to newcomers in the industry, sharing their unique stories of success, struggles, and the lessons learned along the way.
In this episode of the Wake UP X Podcast, host Efren Salazar sits down with network engineer Devin for a candid conversation about what it really takes to grow in the world of networking.
From getting blamed for every outage to becoming a BGP expert trusted across teams, Devin's story is one every tech professional needs to hear.
What we cover in this episode:
🔹 The ”guilty until proven innocent” dynamic in networking and how it forces you to master everything around you.
🔹 How Devin learned databases, cloud infrastructure, and server architecture simply by having to prove it wasn't his fault.
🔹 The shift from traditional on-prem networks to Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and why it changes how you think.
🔹 Why the cloud is a complete Layer 3 mindset reset and what that means for your configurations.
🔹 The lift-and-shift era and the real challenges companies faced when rushing to AWS and Azure.
🔹 BGP and why it powers the entire internet, why enterprises like Google and Facebook rely on it exclusively, and how Devin built his mastery.
🔹 What it actually means to route traffic over the internet. It's not just send it and forget it.
Whether you're a network engineer, cloud architect, or just someone curious about how the internet really works, this episode will change how you think about infrastructure.
Host: Efren SalazarGuest: Devin | Network Engineer and BGP ExpertShow: Wake UP X Podcast
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