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Networking isn’t what it used to be. A few years ago, the epicenter of networking began to move. It shifted from company-owned datacenters, out to the cloud. For users, the focus of networking moved from computers connected with wires, to mobile devices connected over the air. These fundamental shif…

If the ability to write code is a super power, my origin story is rooted in an obsession with classic coin-op video games that started when I was 10 years old.  The DevNet team always finds creative ways to inject fun into a conference experience, when friend and fellow retro gaming enthusiast Hank…

The upcoming DevNet Zone at Cisco Live in San Diego will be the 5th anniversary of our first DevNet Zone at Cisco Live. The first was in San Francisco in 2014. We had just started up DevNet the preceding January and made a last minute decision to get into the Cisco Live game. It was a tough and stee…

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.…

You have no doubt heard the saying that ‘once you know one language you will be able to pick and learn the next language quicker.’ I’ve heard this both for learning to speak another language and also in the coding world. I wanted to put this to the test. Before I start, when I say…

At CiscoLive Barcelona I became a millionaire. I’m loaded. I couldn’t be happier. And all because we launched DevNetCoin!  Now, technically, I’m only a millionaire in a token with no intrinsic value. But I’m still happy. So, that’s good. Do YOU want to be a millionaire (in your own crypto token)? Wi…

Fast on the heels of Cisco Live Europe, I’m on my way next week to the Cisco Live DevNet Zone (March 6-9, 2018) in Melbourne, Australia. — or “melbun” if you’re a local! The DevNet Zone will be rockin’ with new and tried-and-true workshops and sessions to help you…

Networkers have been building labs with networking gear for decades. Every one of us who has built their home lab has had to go through some learning curve of researching various product families, models, operating system versions, and product features supported by various hardware and software comb…

Software Defined Networking (SDN), and the dizzying number of different ways IT organizations define it, continues to be a moving target. However, whatever the definition of SDN is this month, it is clear from talking to customers and seeing how the large web and cloud providers are transforming the…