The unglamorous layer that carries everything else.
Internet Plumbing is the independent engineering practice of Eric Houston, based in Seattle. The focus is the part of the stack most people never see: the routing, switching, and systems plumbing underneath the applications.
BGP, MPLS, and carrier-grade routing and switching, drawn from 25 years building and operating production provider networks on Cisco and Juniper.
Kubernetes, GitOps-driven operations, and the observability and automation that keep clusters honest and reproducible.
Infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and the connective tissue between the network and the platform that rides on it.
The networking and platform substrate for local and at-scale model deployment — an area of active build-out.
This page is informational. Internet Plumbing is a small practice, not a product. If the work above is relevant to something you're building, you're welcome to get in touch.