Matt Johnson

As you may have seen, here at DevNet we were super excited to launch our new certifications track at Cisco LIVE! in San Diego. You can read all about the launch in Susie Wee’s blog. With blueprints for the DEVNET associate, professional, and specialist exams available, this series of blog pos…

Following a relaxing post-conference weekend, I’ve spent the day distilling my notes and conversations from an excellent week at Google NEXT 19 in San Francisco. Cisco was there in full force, exhibiting our latest solutions in cloud security, collaboration, hybrid Kubernetes, AI/ML and of cou…

This blog is contributed by Jessica Thomas. Jess is a Senior Marketing Executive at WiFi analytics company, Purple. She is responsible for both SEO and PPC as well as driving the businesses content plan.  Last quarter, Purple teamed up with Cisco to host an internal hackathon. The goal of the hackat…

It’s 2019! (nearly wrote 18 there!) and the definition between operations engineer and developer has been blurred for longer than we can remember. The early 20xx’s DevOps mentality – beautifully characterized in books such as Gene Kim’s “The Phoenix Project” – have shifted the onus to en…

With the ever increasing demands of today’s IT environments, the complexity of security and incident management can easily get out of hand. Security, like every other area of innovation, needs to be smart, automated, and pro-active in order to meet the demands of the business and defend agains…

Part of my role has always been to create and present workshops, talks and labs at our conferences, such as Cisco LIVE! It’s an enjoyable challenge, finding new and interesting ways to engage with attendees. Our developer zone, DEVNET, aims to provide a ‘sales-light’ environment, focused on hands-on…