Swift & Network programmability, a good combo? An introduction.

Swift is commonly known by iOS and MacOSX Software developers as Apple introduced the language in 2014 for MacOSX, iOS and Linux application development.
In my role as software engineer I’ve used different programming languages to build small tools, solutions or prototypes. For network programmability I’ve used Java as my primary language. I have my reasons, which I might share later in another post.

Network Programmability on the web pretty much evolves around Python. Is Swift mature enough and powerfull enough to be used for programming the network? Time to write up my experiences in a blog series. The first post is an introduction to Swift. Continue reading “Swift & Network programmability, a good combo? An introduction.”

Using scrivener as a blogging tool

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a blog. Time has just flown by and I can’t even believe that it’s almost october! I do have enough ideas to blog on but finding the time has been difficult. Today we had an ad hoc coffee hour with the Cisco Champions and the conversation was about which tool you use to write as well. Reason for this was of course also that I’ve started to author a CiscoPress book on Intent-based networking. Continue reading “Using scrivener as a blogging tool”

updating DNA-Center experiences

So I am in the lucky position that in the past few weeks I’ve been working with the DNA-Center solution in different ways in a primarily automation focused project. One of the new philosophies of the Cisco DNA-C BU is to deliver updates more frequently and in a micro-update based strategy. E.g. if a package has a bug, only that package can be updated, on the fly. So DNA-Center needs to have a connection to the Internet. And it’s time to share my experiences. Continue reading “updating DNA-Center experiences”

Intent Based Networking is a journey: Tip #1

In a previous blog post I explained that Intent Based Networking not only intoduces new technology but that it also requires change in the way we operate network infrastructures. And that it is in fact a journey, but how do you get started on that journey? With your existing network infrastructure? It’s impossible to throw away every piece of equiment and design and start greenfield.

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