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Why I'm telling network engineers to learn Python

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Why I'm telling network engineers to learn Python

During a wet autumnal walk, I was explaining to my girlfriend about my recent presentations. I've been doing my 'Getting Started with Python' talk at Aruba Airheads meet-ups. I recorded an early version of it, see below. One point I mentioned is that the reaction is

Windows for Network Automation?

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Windows for Network Automation?

The OS landscape is changing and, yes, you can learn and run network automation tools on Windows. After a hot, dry June day in Richmond I boarded an empty train. It being just myself and a couple opposite we struck up a conversation, awaiting the train’s departure. Over the

Workshop Epilogue 2

Networkers and Coding Q & A In Part One of this blog I mentioned that I liked to start the second day of the workshop a little differently. The workshop itself was aimed very much at network engineers but the second day was all about using Python to interact with

ArubaOS-CX Workshop Epilogue

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ArubaOS-CX Workshop Epilogue

12 sessions, 6 countries, 4 months After twelve sessions across six countries over four months, last week we presented the final ArubaOS-CX EMEA workshop in Dubai. The objective of the session was to familiarise the attendees with the game-changing ArubaOS-CX operating system and 8320 switching hardware. Each workshop was split

My Video Adventures across the ArubaOS-CX Spectrum

Hungry Horace For the uninitiated, ArubaOS-CX is a new networking OS, running on Aruba's 84/830xx campus core switches. I've been playing around with the OS for a while now. The headline is 'network OS with auto-generated REST API'. No clunky abstraction layer, no

Python Reading List

Python Reading List

My Python recommended reading list.

Moving Beyond CLI

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Moving Beyond CLI

Hello, here's a link to a youtube video that I made this week. It is a screen-capture of a preso that I gave at Aruba Atmosphere in Disneyland Paris: One area that I do not think I provide enough detail is the difference between screen-scraping and using an

Getting into Python: A Guide for Networkers Part 2

This is a very subjective piece about what worked for me when I first tried my hand at getting into Python as a networking chap. It comes with the disclaimer that your experience may be wildly different. Commit Firstly, and most importantly, commit to learning Python, keep focused on that,

Getting into Python: A Guide for Networkers Part 1

Getting into Python: A Guide for Networkers Part 1

> No, you are not mistaken, it is 2017 and I'm writing this blog about networking types learning python. I understand that this may all sound a little 2012 but I think I've actually got good reason to write and encourage other like-minded network engineers to