Network programmability

This blog is authored by Ioannis Theodoridis (Yannis for friends and workmates). I am a network and systems engineer specializing in fault, performance, and service level monitoring for the Network and IT services. I work in the Network Department, in the IT Division of the Bank of Greece, as a memb…

This is part 2 of the CI/CD Demo, on how to run your own demo using CI/CD pipelines for network configuration management. Julio’s previous posts in the NetDevOps Series are available here. To experience and demonstrate the full NetDevOps configuration pipeline, you may want to setup a local d…

One of the questions that gets asked most often around NetDevOps is, “I love the concept of NetDevOps, but I’m not a software developer. I’ve been a network engineer for X years, and I don’t know how to code…where do I  start?” You can start with Python. It’s a great programming la…

Thanks to protocol enhancements, which provide better scheduling and negotiation of ‘taking turns to talk’, Wi-Fi 6 will allow more devices to ‘talk’, and be understood, at the same time. This results in greater communication efficiency and better end-user experiences! What’s the big deal wit…

Do you often ask yourself why we keep configuring our network devices in the same way we have been doing it for the last 30 years? Isn’t it strange that we still need to log into each individual box and use command-line instructions to perform any changes? Do you wonder if there might be a mor…

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…

DevNet Create 2019 is just around the corner – April 24-25th in Mountain View, California. Some 400 developers, network programmers, and IT pros will gather to share their latest findings when coding modern user experiences and applications leveraging network infrastructure, Machine Learning,…

The DevNet Zone at Cisco Live is now entering it’s 6th year, and while some things change, other things stay the same.  Over the years I’ve had the privilege of presenting most of the DevNet Zone introductory coding classes — classes on REST APIs, Git, Python, etc — and one c…

You know that feeling when you are right at the beginning of something big? A long-distance run perhaps, an extended vacation, or your first zip-line trip. You get this tingling feeling of anticipation. That was my feeling at Cisco Live when we unveiled the breadth of partner applications that have…