Posts for: #Performance

Most network devices don’t speak HTTPS natively. The practical solution: move SSH to the edge and talk HTTPS (or QUIC) over the WAN. Here’s the proxy, the tunnel, and the measured proof.

I built clibench, a dual-protocol device emulator in Go, to measure SSH vs HTTPS CLI performance at realistic latencies. Here’s the architecture, the code, and the numbers.

SSH-based network automation is slow at scale. Not because of the devices, but because of the protocol. Here’s what the SSH handshake actually costs and why HTTPS is a faster transport for CLI commands.