Tom Davies

Over the last month or two, as service usage has continued to expand, the DevNet Sandbox Team has been putting a lot of engineering concentrating on building out a new Data Center, focused on operational efficiency through automation and infrastructure programmability (you can read about some of the…

CiscoLive US is nearly upon us and I’ll be jumping on a plane in just a few short days and hoping to meet many of you there to talk DevNet, Network Automation, Application Development and more! The DevNet Sandbox team will be back in the DevNet Zone and looking forward to helping you get hands on wi…

I love the end of year holidays. It’s the longest holiday I take in the year and I come back with a bunch of (hopefully!) good ideas. Ideas for large and small innovation areas I want to make reality with my team who build out and operate the DevNet Sandbox platform and services. For DevNet, the pos…

The year is still young, but the DevNet Sandbox team has been hard at work to bring you a host of new sandboxes before the first month is through, and if you’re heading to CLEUR a fun new challenge to attempt. New sandboxes give you free access, to the latest Cisco and Open Source Tech First u…

At CiscoLive Barcelona I became a millionaire. I’m loaded. I couldn’t be happier. And all because we launched DevNetCoin!  Now, technically, I’m only a millionaire in a token with no intrinsic value. But I’m still happy. So, that’s good. Do YOU want to be a millionaire (in your own crypto token)? Wi…

Kubernetes – 100% Upstream, Simple, Fast, Supported You may have seen – over here at Cisco we’ve just released a new Cisco Container Platform (CCP) together with learning labs to learn the basics of CCP and its API. CCP aims to take away the pain from deploying and maintaining your container platfor…

Recently, I became a millionaire! Well, technically I’m a millionaire, even though my bank account may reflect otherwise. During a recent conference where I was talking about blockchain technology, I created a blockchain based crypto token in one of my DevNet speaking sessions and instantly made my…

I’ve been into serverless technologies for a few years now. The thought of not having to care about what platform my code is executing on, or having to manage and operate it, resonated with my developer side that just wants to code. I also saw it as a possible catalyst for change in how we are devel…

Been waiting to get your hands on the new ACI 3.0 release? Of course you have. And now you can – instantly! Here in DevNet we’ve just finished upgrading our ACI sandboxes to the latest release of ACI which offers you: Kubernetes support – import your kubernetes cluster as a VMM domain A…