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Stuart Clark

Network Automation Developer

DevNet UK

Stuart is a Network Automation Developer for Cisco Devnet. He has work for Cisco for over eight years designing, building and troubleshooting Cisco’s Security Cloud network with a strong focus on BGP, peering and coffee.

In the last few years his focus moved to network automation, spending more time on writing code for network automation at scale and moving networking towards a DevOps methodology.

GitHub: http://github.com/bigevilbeard

Articles

March 4, 2020

DEVELOPER

How to Speed Up Root Cause Analysis with Rookout

This blog is authored by Josh Hendrick, Senior Solutions Engineer at Rookout. It’s been truly amazing to watch the software development industry grow and evolve over the past 20 years. We’ve gone from building tightly coupled now considered monolithic applications in the standard client-server appr…

December 3, 2019

DEVELOPER

DevNet Certifications – Preparing for “Developing Applications Using Cisco Core Platforms and APIs” Exam

As we get ever closer to the highly anticipated availability of Cisco DevNet Certifications exams (February, 2020), the excitement is building for those wishing to take and pass the DEVNET CCNP. For the professional track, exam requirements are similar to the CCNP current R&S track. In order to…

November 13, 2019

DEVELOPER

Explore Model-Driven Telemetry

New learning labs and sandbox As our journey through network automation grows, so does the need for our network tools. Network Engineers have always been considered the absolute escalation point for any performance difficulties and problems, irrespective whether the root cause is really the network,…

November 12, 2019

DEVELOPER

DevNet Certifications – How To Prepare for the Service Provider Automation and Programmability Exam

The network world is changing, and the skills that were valued a decade ago aren’t the ones that will carry your career into the future. This is what makes Cisco DevNet such an important resource for network professionals, and the new DevNet Certifications such a valuable proof that you’ve acq…

October 28, 2019

DEVELOPER

Enhance Your Development Environment with Visual Studio Code Extensions

A few weeks back a few folks in the NetDevOps Live! Webex Teams Room were talking about source-code editors — how we got started, what text editing tool we started with, what we are using today — with a little of the why we use these (spoiler alert, its mostly personal preference). We al…

October 7, 2019

DEVELOPER

Cisco DNA, NetBeez Agents, and App Hosting on Cat9K

The author of this blog is Stefano Gridelli, Co-Founder and CEO at NetBeez, Inc. You can learn more about the Cisco DNA integration with NetBeez at his live webinar, October 14. In a previous post, I wrote about Cisco App Hosting and how it enabled running NetBeez network monitoring agents on top of…

October 3, 2019

DEVELOPER

Get Started with Cisco SD-WAN Ansible Pipeline

With my webinar, you can learn how to apply modern agile methods and tools to the deployment of Cisco SD-WAN topologies. Take a step towards NetDevOps by using Ansible and VIRL to build test environments, create infrastructure-as-code, and automate Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2 configurations. If you miss…

October 2, 2019

DEVELOPER

New DevNet Postman Collection Makes Using APIs Easier

Over the last few months, I have been very privileged to be working with the awesome team over at Postman. Postman is a great tool when exploring RESTful APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) on network/platform devices, or for testing ones you have created yourself. Our two teams have a lot in…

August 13, 2019

DEVELOPER

“Code for Catalyst Challenge” is Now Open!

Create an original Docker container application for the Cisco Catalyst Switch 9300, and WIN! Calling all tech lovers, participate in a virtual challenge for a chance to win exciting prizes! I love a good challenge and have taken part in a good few of these, whether this is a hackathon, hotdog eati…