Brian Trammell
Scientist, Synthesist, Cyclist, SREI’m an American-Swiss geek of several trades living in Wallisellen, Switzerland. I’m a proud father, unrepentant pedestrian supremacist, recovering security person, and scientist with interests in Internet architecture, Internet measurement, and the evolution of the Internet general and Internet protocols specifically, especially at Layer 4. I’m active in the IETF, IRTF, and have been recently appointed as a Trustee of the Internet Society.
My day job is in Site Reliability Engineering at Google in Zürich, where I don’t work in networking for a change.
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As should go without saying on a website named after me, the opinions here are my own and do not represent the views of any organization with which I’m affiliated.
Latest Post
State of the Blog, 2026
29 May 2026
And welcome, once again to my blog, the last seven years of which seem dominated by me talking about the technical aspects of keeping my blog up to date. As I sat back and watched Claude migrate my Blogger and Wordpress content from a bitrotted Hugo template to one with an apparent present, it occurred to me that this most recent migration provides a pretty good excuse to explore what works about the Internet in 2026, and what doesn’t. …
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