At a recent network programmability workshop one of the attendees asked, “Why is Cisco teaching me Python?” I was leading a workshop for a group of senior network engineers at a large financial ...

As a junior network engineer at a university I wrote a lot of management scripts in Perl. I had scripts to do things such as check switchport configurations and upgrade switch code. Times have changed ...

The Forefront of EvolutionToday's Headlines Cisco and Splunk strengthen partnership with NVIDIA, announcing 'Cisco AI POD for Splunk' for secure, large-scale AI operations in on-premises environments: ...

Nornir, an automation framework that uses Python directly, provides an alternative to other automation frameworks that use their own domain-specific language (DSL). The framework can dispatch tasks to ...