Lately, I've been into building custom sensors and I've been talking to Farraday Robotech and he mentioned that it would be pretty helpful if I could do an introductory post about MQTT and its use in IoT applications.

If you aren't familiar with VXLAN, check out my initial post on VXLAN to get an idea of what it is. We're going to expand on that topic in terms of how it works. Before we talk about VXLAN with MP-BGP EVPN, it's important to understand how traditional VXLAN works, and what some of the shortcomings are.

For my first blog post, I thought I should start something that's near and dear to my heart - and a something that a lot of people seem to be confused about - VXLAN, or Virtual eXtensible LAN.