MeshPilot Academy

Switching Labs

Stacking vs MLAG: Failure Fridays

Break things on purpose. Compare control plane coupling, upgrade strategies, and how each choice reads during incidents.

Switching Intermediate On-site option in Seoul

Tuition (informational)

720,000 KRW

No checkout on this site—coordinators confirm scope before invoices.

Illustrative still life for Stacking vs MLAG: Failure Fridays

Studio Fridays

3 sessions · 13 lab hours

Scenario brief

You inherit two campuses with different campus switching philosophies. Friday labs introduce failures while mentors narrate what operators actually hear on bridges. Expect messy logs, impatient chat threads, and the need to defend your choice without tribal slogans.

Lead mentor

Sora Kwak

Designs switching labs the way rehearsal studios build tour rigs.

Inside the lab

  • Fault injection playbook with severity labels
  • Role-played bridge updates from stakeholders
  • Side-by-side telemetry for stacking vs MLAG
  • Written postmortem template tuned for leadership skims
  • Mentor critique on clarity, not heroics
  • Checklist for maintenance windows with mixed vendors
  • Capstone: recommend a path with operational tradeoffs spelled out

Outcomes

  • Pick a campus strategy with honest failure modes
  • Run upgrades without surprise traffic cliffs
  • Communicate risk without burning trust

Logistics questions

No. Remote pods mirror the on-site racks. On-site seats are limited to twelve per month.

Cohort notes

“Failure Fridays in Stacking vs MLAG gave me language for risks I used to shrug through.”

Owen · Lead technician

Via survey

“The bridge role-play felt awkward for five minutes, then invaluable.”

Suji