Wow! It’s been 6 months since I wrote my final DevNet 10-year weblog, ruminating on the creation and historical past of Cisco DevNet. Since then, the marking of our 10 yr anniversary has exploded with in-person occasions at Cisco Dwell! in Melbourne and Amsterdam and a digital celebration developing on March 14th. I need to begin this weblog by saying a giant “THANK YOU!” to our neighborhood for serving to us look again and acknowledge the great accomplishments we’ve had over these 10 years.

With this weblog, I’d actually wish to dig into the longer term. Evidently we’re hitting a significant inflection level throughout the broader high-tech industries; one that’s doubtlessly as influential and difficult because the introduction of cloud and microservices architectures 10-15 years in the past. Organizations needed to learn to navigate that paradigm shift and take care of points they’d by no means encountered earlier than. Points like software sprawl, hybrid software deployments, digital networking, container orchestration, and elevated safety assault vectors. On prime of these technical considerations there was an added operational problem of optimizing prices throughout on-premises versus cloud deployments. Out of these challenges a burgeoning want for observability has introduced itself.

Deal with AI and sustainability

This time, nevertheless, the main target is on AI and sustainability, and probably extra importantly the function that observability can play in supporting options in each areas. At factors, implementations of AI and sustainability efforts could contradict one another in sensible software. Nonetheless, enhancements in tooling, born of the cloud revolution talked about above, enable us to dynamically construct visibility instantly into the answer in any respect know-how layers. This gives the chance for each reactive, and extra importantly proactive, actions to be taken to optimize exercise at any of these layers individually or in live performance with one another.

So now, you’re on the level of studying this going “that every one sounds superb and good Matt, however how does DevNet and the group’s future issue into all of this?”

Glorious query. And to that I reply “DevNet would be the glue.”

For 10 years, DevNet has been the face of programmability and automation for Cisco. Infrastructure as Code, NetDevOps, etcetera, we had been there with documentation, sandboxes, pattern code, studying labs, reside occasions , and sensible expertise supporting our neighborhood as they glued collectively varied merchandise to construct out superb options that modified the way in which we work. We at the moment are within the midst of upleveling all of that to carry an answer focus to the entire content material and expertise we offer in an effort to transfer much more rapidly.

Ten years in the past, we began with little or no and needed to ramp programmability and integration points of Cisco’s portfolio VERY rapidly. This pushed us right into a “extra is healthier” mindset in order that we may be certain that we had full protection for our companions and prospects in any product house. That labored effectively for some time, however now there may be a lot on the market that we have to boil right down to the necessities.

High quality over amount

Over the subsequent few months, you will notice a bunch of adjustments that mirror a “high quality over amount” mindset. You will have even seen just a few of them already!

• We’ve got redesigned our studying labs and documentation catalogs, and are within the midst of bettering our API reference expertise to make OAS specification documentation simpler and clearer to make use of.
• Our Sandbox staff simply migrated their overwhelmingly useful service to a brand new platform.
• We’re additionally engaged on optimizing our search performance and implementing AI into our tooling to advertise content material suggestions for particular person areas of curiosity.
• Dynamic content material will abound as we offer the most recent and best on our homepage and in our product Dev Facilities.
• Even our neighborhood is being revamped to be a extra helpful, insightful, and collaborative place to go to.

All of that is being achieved that will help you navigate Cisco and DevNet, and make it simpler to construct your options.

As for AI, sustainability, and observability, preserve a watch out for brand new Subject Hubs, documentation, studying labs, and pattern codes in these areas. We will likely be offering thought management and sensible content material that lets you peek backstage of AI and perceive the character of predictive and generative AI.

On the sustainability entrance, we will likely be curating resolution centered materials to can help you notice vitality utilization optimization inside your group. As for observability, we will likely be showcasing options throughout your complete stack.

Lastly, we’ll proceed celebrating our neighborhood all through the subsequent 10 years, beginning with our digital tenth Anniversary Celebration on March 14. The occasion will have fun milestones we’ve achieved all through the previous ten years, and develop on the concepts outlined on this weblog like AI and Sustainability. As at all times, in June we hope to see you at Cisco Dwell in Las Vegas. Within the meantime, keep tuned as we put together to announce much more alternatives to study, code, and construct.

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