Stay away from OOP

I’ve been revising my Cisco Live session on IOS XE programmability, and it’s made me think about programming in general, and a particular idea I’ve been embarrassed to admit I loathe: Object Oriented Programming. Some context:  I started programming on the Apple II+ in BASIC, which shows my age.  Back then programs were input with […]

Programmability for Network Engineers

Since I finished my series of articles on the CCIE, I thought I would kick off a new series on my current area of focus:  network programmability.  The past year at Cisco, programmability and automation have been my focus, first on Nexus and now on Catalyst switches.  I did do a two-part post on DCNM, […]