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A co-worker sent me some infrastructure code to check out and get my opinion. The code was fine, but it was a lot of code… I mean a lot of code. Looking at the thousands of lines of purpose written code I started thinking that there could be a better way. The code was Python and used the UCS Python…

Back in 2011, web pioneer Marc Andreessen wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, entitled “Why software is eating the world”. I couldn’t agree more! First, let’s have a look at what’s going on in the industry at large. Every company in every vertical industry is facing unprecedented competitive…

This is the first in a multi-part series where we cover ‘programmability’ for networking.  The idea is to fully review the programming options now available inside the Nexus switches, (3000, 9000).  This first episode covers new access with Linux tools, NX-API and more. Further shows will be diving…