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Julio Gomez

Programmability Lead, EMEAR

Systems Engineers

CCIE #9302 (active) and AWS Architect, he leads Programmability in EMEAR, helping Systems Engineers in the region drive automation and innovation using Cisco APIs. He is a 19-year Cisco veteran spending most of his life working on the technical side of Data Center, Cloud and Service Provider spaces.

He has worked on pre-sales for Service Providers such as Telefonica, Orange, Vodafone or O2. Deeply technical he is interested in all-things programmability, with a special interest on Cloud technologies and how they are shaping the future of the industry.

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May 24, 2018

DEVELOPER

On-Prem vs. Public Cloud Deployments Differences & Similarities – DevOps Series, Part 6

Find previous blogs in Julio’s DevOps series. If you followed my previous posts on deployments for on-premises and public Cloud environments, you are now quite familiar with how each one of them work. Today I would like to elaborate a bit on how they compare after our recent experience working…

May 16, 2018

DEVELOPER

How to Leverage a Public Cloud for Microservices-based Application Deployment – DevOps Series, Part 5

This is part 5 in Julio Gomez’s series of blogs on DevOps.  Find previous blogs in Julio’s DevOps series here. Using public Cloud providers services (like GCP, AWS or Azure) is a nice option for multiple scenarios. Let’s say you do not have any on-premises infrastructure and would…

May 2, 2018

DEVELOPER

Unveiling the Magic Behind On-premises Infrastructure – DevOps Series, Part 4

Now that you are familiar with how Developers work in their local environments (see previous blog), it is time to explore their peer Operations teams. Once developers feel comfortable with code running in their laptops, Ops needs to start thinking about how it will go into production. That productio…

April 17, 2018

DEVELOPER

A Day In the Life of a Modern Applications Developer – DevOps Series, Part 3

Welcome back! If you followed my previous posts you are really fluent on Docker and Kubernetes, so now let’s put that knowledge into practice! The Life of a DevOps Team Have you heard about DevOps from multiple sources and still don’t have a clear idea what it really is? Would you like to create a r…

April 4, 2018

DEVELOPER

Managing Containers Made Easy with Kubernetes – DevOps Series, Part 2

If you followed my previous post you are now quite familiar with how Docker containers work. But we just covered the way to work with them manually. When you go into production environments you quickly realize manual management is not really a viable option. There are multiple reasons to avoid manua…

March 22, 2018

DEVELOPER

If You’re Not Familiar with Containers, You’re Missing Out on Something Big – DevOps Series, Part 1

Containers are the basis for so many modern applications that you cannot really ignore them anymore. If you are not familiar with them you are missing out on something big. Something useful to overcome many limitations suffered by legacy monolithic applications. And something real that the community…