Taha Yusuf

Super proud of this one! Has a special in my heart. #datacenters #Cisco @LearningatCisco

Imagine an AI agent that performs self-improvement by using other AI agents. A multi-agent recursive self-improving operator AI agent…. Pending… 😊…

If you’re studying #Cisco ACI - learning the data plane is essential. Which is why I recommend learning VXLAN before diving into ACI.

🧬Cisco ACI uses a sharded distributed database architecture. Each “shard” is a partition of the overall configuration and operational state. Each APIC takes responsibility for certain shards. Think of it as spreading out the brain of the ACI fabric across multiple controllers.

@labeveryday Congrats brother! I can imagine the feeling! 🤘🏿

Super proud of my daughter for graduating college. Looking forward to her going to law school. I just hope she goes into AI law.

Recently I had an engineer reach out to me, they wanted to enable SSH key-based authentication for logging into a large number of network devices as part of their work security requirement. Basically, they wanted a way to automate the entire ssh key distribution process. #devnet

@Erika_theDev Go Erika go! Good luck, I’m sure you won’t need it!

Friday was my last day at Cisco... here's what I'll be doing next:

@MarkoVlajic87 Congratulations Marko!

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been promoted to Principal Network Engineer! Looks like all those years of rebooting routers and pretending to understand "subnetting" finally paid off. Excited to break more things and hopefully fix them too!

@dmfigol @PulumiCorp It’s really great to use your favourite GPL to declare cloud infra rather that DSL. Pulumi is great, I used it sometime ago and not sure why I left it tbh? Time to head back!

Verdict about @PulumiCorp after stream today: It is simple great. No fighting DSL - use favorite language to express complex infra dependencies and provide GOOD abstraction for consumers. IDE autocomplete + familiar language tooling (e.g. pydantic, debugger) are a cherry on top.

My all time favourite network programmability book has arrived no more pdf 😊 @CiscoPress Thank you!

@kabuelenain Let’s go!!

One last jump before the season ends..

I hope you all enjoy this easy to follow Nexus vPC Pair + Palo Alto HA Pair in 7 easy steps! All configs are cli - the level of support and feedback on this has been absolutely amazing by the community on LinkedIn. ✌️

@bigevilbeard Amazing work my friend - the level of positivity you bring to the community is unreal. Keep being you my brother!

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

@danieldibswe If it was just for testing purposes- why not run it locally using an inference, such as huggingface/transformers or even Ollama? Regardless, this is a bit too steep even on Nvidia H100 AZ But then again google clouds TPU pod with multiple TPU v4 can cost at least 10k per hour

I've seen this pop up every now and then. Making mistakes in public cloud is super expensive. Most people don't do enough research before testing services. They deploy dedicated resources. Sure, server may be offline, but you still reserved it. Costly mistake!

One thing I love about network automation- it forces you to learn a particular technology-if automating deployment/configuration SD devices such as ACI,ISE,SDA,Palo Alto,fortigate, F5 etc or traditional route/switch devices IOS/XE/NXOS You will need to understand their workflow

@Erika_theDev Thanks for sharing Erika - you are so awesome!!!

Great breakdown - recommended reading

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