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 Reside! 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 group for serving to us look again and acknowledge the fantastic accomplishments we have now had over these 10 years.
With this weblog, I’d actually prefer to dig into the long run. Evidently we’re hitting a significant inflection level inside the broader high-tech industries; one that’s probably 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 cope with points that they had by no means encountered earlier than. Points like software sprawl, hybrid software deployments, digital networking, container orchestration, and elevated safety assault vectors. On high of these technical issues 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 position that observability can play in supporting options in each areas. At factors, implementations of AI and sustainability efforts might contradict one another in sensible software. Nevertheless, enhancements in tooling, born of the cloud revolution talked about above, enable us to dynamically construct visibility immediately into the answer in any respect expertise layers. This supplies 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 have been there with documentation, sandboxes, pattern code, studying labs, reside occasions , and sensible expertise supporting our group as they glued collectively numerous merchandise to construct out wonderful options that modified the way in which we work. We at the moment are within the midst of upleveling all of that to convey an answer focus to all the content material and expertise we offer as a way 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 make certain we had full protection for our companions and prospects in any product area. That labored effectively for some time, however now there’s 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 note a number of adjustments that mirror a “high quality over amount” mindset. You could have even seen a number of of them already!
- We have now 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 group simply migrated their overwhelmingly precious 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 biggest on our homepage and in our product Dev Facilities.
- Even our group is being revamped to be a extra helpful, insightful, and collaborative place to go to.
All of that is being achieved that can assist you navigate Cisco and DevNet, and make it simpler to construct your options.
As for AI, sustainability, and observability, hold a watch out for brand new Subject Hubs, documentation, studying labs, and pattern codes in these areas. We will probably be offering thought management and sensible content material that means that you can peek behind the scenes of AI and perceive the character of predictive and generative AI.
On the sustainability entrance, we will probably be curating resolution targeted materials to let you understand vitality utilization optimization inside your group. As for observability, we will probably be showcasing options throughout all the stack.
Lastly, we’ll proceed celebrating our group all through the subsequent 10 years, beginning with our digital tenth Anniversary Celebration on March 14. The occasion will rejoice milestones we’ve achieved all through the previous ten years, and develop on the concepts outlined on this weblog like AI and Sustainability. As all the time, in June we hope to see you at Cisco Reside in Las Vegas. Within the meantime, keep tuned as we put together to announce much more alternatives to be taught, code, and construct.
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