Heavy Networking
Hosted by Drew and Ethan · Packet Pushers
4.9from 383 ratings
- 346
- Episodes
- 127
- Transcribed
- 383
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 773K
- YouTube views
About Heavy Networking
Heavy Networking is an unabashedly nerdy dive into all things networking. Described by one listener as "verbal white papers," the weekly episodes feature network engineers, industry experts, and vendors sharing useful information to keep your professional knowledge sharp and your career growing. Hosts Ethan Banks & Drew Conry-Murray cut through the marketing spin to explore what works—and what doesn't—in networking today, while keeping an eye on what's ahead for the industry. On air since 2010, Heavy Networking is the flagship show of the Packet Pushers podcast network.
- Publisher
- Packet Pushers
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 31 Jan 2020
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
127 of 346 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
HN844: Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC)
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
HN843: From Network Engineer to Network Architect with Kevin Nanns
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
HN842: How Network Engineers Can Prepare for a Post-Quantum World
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HN844: Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC)
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Do I understand that right? That's absolutely correct. The P99.5 tail latency is a key determination of what the application performance is. Effectively, if you look at the collective, there's an all-to-all or even other ones that are going on. By definition, you need all of them to complete in order to enforce it for the operation at the network level at the application level to complete. Yeah. So tail latency then is we're waiting for the slowest member of the cluster to complete operations. And so that and that slows everybody else down. That's the tail we're talking about. And the tail latency will determine the sort of the job state machine. […]
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- Kevin Nanns
- Bill Dockery
- Kyle Baxter
- Sridhar Katere
- Sian Morgan
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 773,232
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 327 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 56 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Heavy Networking?
Drew and Ethan host the show. Published by Packet Pushers.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Heavy Networking take guests?
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