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As 20 billion connected devices come online in the next few years1, The internet of things is poised to play an increasingly important role in our economy. IDC expects IOT based spending to top $1 trillion by 20202 representing a large swath of industries including agriculture, transportation, logis…

What do the World Cup, the Tour de France, and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have in common? They were all featured on the big screen at the IETF Hackathon at IETF 102 in Montreal. A World Cup full of surprises and late heroics concluded with France scoring an impressive victory over Cr…

Network engineers are tasked with deploying, operating, and monitoring the network as efficiently, securely, and reliably as possible. As the complexity, scale, and security demands of the network increase, there is greater pressure on network engineers to reduce time to implement and minimize the r…

Telepresence is another useful tool that allows you to work from your laptop like you were inside a remote Kubernetes (k8s) cluster. This way you can easily do live debugging and testing of a service locally, while connected to a remote k8s cluster. For example you could be developing on a local mic…

Modern cloud application development relies on microservice-based architectures that span both public and private clouds, and connect to on-premise applications. But fitting applications and microservices into both environments can feel like forcing a square peg into a round hole. Cloud developers n…

Hello fellow readers! My name is Silvia. I am a Software Developer and a CIIP (Cisco International Internship Program) intern within Cisco IT! I am part of a team driving the SDx (Software Defined Everything) transformation in Cisco IT by providing tools, automation, training, tutorials and best-pra…

Continuing the PnP story… The first blog in this series gave an overview of network Plug and Play (PnP) and how it has evolved in DNA Center.   It showed a very simple workflow to provision a device with a configuration template with a variable called “hostname”. One of my customers had a requ…

Get your free DevNet account for access to our developer resources, learning labs & sandbox Just before I left for Cisco Live US, I was given the chance to work with the APIs on Cisco DNA Center. Having never used Cisco DNA Center this was a quick learning curve, but once I started I could see…

“Draft” is a useful tool that enables developers to easily build applications and run them in Kubernetes (k8s). It helps you by hiding the complexity of building images, publishing them, and creating the deployments. That way you can focus on what is really important… your code. Wi…