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My father is a real craftsman.  He always used to tell me whilst I was growing up (and still does to this day :-), “you cannot do all the jobs with the same tool. You would not use a hammer to cut wood, right?” He’s right of course, and the same folk wisdom is true for network automation. As of yet…

The story used to go something like this: DevOps would code a new purpose-built application in C++ or Java designed for scale across multiple servers. They would work closely with DBAs to optimize the backend SQL calls and ensure a client located in the same server room would have great response tim…

It’s DevNet Create time! In preparation for this highly-anticipated, annual community gathering, be sure to join the DevNet crew for a special #CiscoChat LIVE! online event on April 16 at 10am PT. Set a reminder for yourself here: Facebook. DevNet Create is the only conference that joins the f…

In the past… Unless you have lived under a rock for the past 10 years, you know that these days everything is software defined. Networking is software defined, data center is software defined, you name it, is software defined. Makes sense of course. Networks have become so vast, so central to…

I confess… I am obsessed with API-based use cases. And for a good reason. You can study APIs, you can learn a programming language (hopefully Python) to leverage those APIs, but the epiphany moment comes when you see everything working together to address a specific business challenge by creating so…

Yogi Berra once said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”  Now, for those who don’t know Yogi Berra – he was a Hall of Fame catcher for the New York Yankees who won 10 World Series rings, the most of any player in history. Yogi’s advice, while often peculiar, seemed sound on this front.…

Network automation can be used for many things. The other day Jon Hudson posted a question on Twitter. “Can anyone point me to a Troubleshooting example in an automated network?”.  This was a timely question as I had actually just done that exact thing in the DevNet Sandbox network to he…

Increasingly over the past couple of quarters, we have been working with more and more retail customers. A common theme has emerged during these discussions that centers on building the best customer experiences as they traverse through a brick and mortar store. The experiences retail environments w…

I’d like to tell you about DevNet-related events and activities that took place in Kazakhstan at the end of February 2019. We conducted 4 events together with the local CDA team and Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility Program Manager in Kazakhstan. It’s no coincidence that we chose Astana Hub as a…