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Tom Davies

Manager, DevNet Sandbox

Developer Experience

Architecture & engineering lead, technology evangelist, lover of code, heading up DevNet Sandbox.

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January 4, 2018

DEVELOPER

NEW DevNet Sandbox! Play live with Istio on Kubernetes to manage your microservice mesh

Most of the development world is aware of the microservices and containerisation movement, given we’re now in 2018! When folks start working with microservices, they quickly realise that they proliferate fast. One application can contain a large number of microservices that all need to interact and…

October 23, 2017

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So, You Wanna Use a Blockchain, Huh?

I got into blockchain from when I hit the Ethereum Developer Conference, DevCon1, out of sheer inquisitiveness, in London a couple of years ago. Here’s a typical 3-min overview of blockchain, for those super new to the technology. Two years doesn’t seem like a long time, but in Blockchain terms, tha…

October 18, 2017

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API Scaling, Security, Serverless API-ing and GraphQL – Hot Topics at the NordicAPI Platform Summit

I was lucky enough to hit Stockholm for the NordicAPI Platform Summit at the beginning of last week. It’s one of only a few all-API focused events held internationally, so given a (probably unhealthy) chunk of my life has been about APIs and all that comes with them, I was geekily excited about it.…

October 3, 2017

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New DevNet Blockchain Sandbox lets you get hands on with hyperledger coding

You’ve probably heard of blockchains by now – the relatively new technology underpinning a whole host of cryptocurrencies and distributed apps.  Blockchains promise exciting solution opportunities across a range of markets, from IoT and machine-to-machine communication, to healthcare, identity manag…

September 14, 2017

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DevNet Sandbox Part 2: Making it Easy to Learn and Innovate

This blog is the second in a series of two, focussing on DevNet Sandbox and the awesome free access to Cisco and Open Source tech it provides all our DevNet users. In my Part 1 blog I explained how DevNet Sandbox provides great fast, on-demand access to a whole host of Cisco technology, third party…

August 28, 2017

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DevNet Sandbox: Giving Developers Fast, Self-Service Access To Cisco Tech

This blog is the first in a series of blogs focusing on DevNet Sandbox and the awesome free access to Cisco and Open Source technologies it provides all our DevNet users. I’m a developer. I’m also somewhat an architect, manager and evangelist which makes life super fun, but pretty fast paced. For th…