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Why Your GitHub Repo and Code Need a README
Have you read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? This is one of my favorite childhood books. The Cheshire Cat, known for its distinctive mischievous grin, and The Mad Hatter, an impolite hatter who lives in perpetual tea-time. At Christmas time my family and I sit and read the book in the eveni…
Introducing Pipeline: A Model-Driven Telemetry Collection Service
The Other Half of the Story With model-driven telemetry (MDT), routers can stream out large amounts of operational data in a highly efficient, easily consumable way. But getting data off the box is only half the story. You have to have something on the other end to collect and transform the raw data…
Cisco Open Source Project Contiv – Winner at ONUG Spring
Cisco has been actively participating in open source and open standards for a long time and is now also a founding member of the Open IT Framework at the most recently held Open Networking User Group (ONUG) earlier this month. As I wrote in my blog prior to the event our focus was going to be on Con…
Experience Day 0, 1, 2 and N Operations @ PuppetConf
Craig Huitema blogged about Cisco’s SDN strategy and one of the key pillars is programmable networks. Cisco’s programmable networks is based on Nexus operating system NX-OS and our Robb Boyd from TechWiseTV covers it here and goes in more depth about NX-API REST (Object model) here and here. Also go…
#EngineersUnplugged S4|Ep12: DevTest on UCS Blades, Home Lab How-To
Welcome to the Season 4 Finale! Instead of a cliffhanger, Randy Keener (@vmrandy) and Trevor Roberts (@vmtrooper) bring you practical how-tos for your dev/test or home lab environment. If you have wanted to try your hand at code but didn’t know how to start, or if you want step-by-step on devt…
Cisco Nexus 9000 Community on GitHub
If you are an open source fan, in particular GitHub, I have good news for you. Yes, we now have a Cisco Nexus 9000 community on GitHub. While many of the initial contributions were created by Cisco employees, ANYONE is allowed and in fact encouraged to participate and share code. Pull requests are m…
#EngineersUnplugged S2|Eps5-6: #Automation and #KISS, a Double Header!
On Engineers Unplugged this week, we are trying something new, a double edition! First up in Episode 5, VCE’s Jay Cuthrell (@qthrul) and Nick Weaver (@lynxbat) talk shop in terms of Automation and the evolution of Open Source, including GitHub, and the role of Community in Tech solving problem…