Early internet networks were small enough that a single engineer could hold the entire system in their head. You didn’t need a system of record — you were the system of record. As networks expanded into the cloud, that model broke down. Infrastructure now sprawls across regions, providers, and services. The live state of the network became both impossible to understand and critical to get right fully.
Network infrastructure is now the backbone of the business, and configuration errors are no longer nuisances; they are business-critical…
