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DevOps and automation are hot topics in IT industry nowadays and everyone is talking about them. Large Enterprise and service providers were started to use network automation to deploy and manage their networks and services few years ago. The network infrastructure scaling of those Enterprise and SP keep increasing every year, and their success can prove that, while comparing to traditional command line management methodology, network automation helps to improve the operation efficiency and brings in some benefits include:

In this week’s community stream, Derick and Matt had a great discussion about a lot of platform-specifics, including a new tool that will allow you to locally validate lesson content, and much more. Unfortunately Derick’s audio didn’t connect to the livestream successfully this time, so you’ll just hear Matt on the recording. We’re posting the video anyways, in case it’s useful as-is, but we’ll be sure to get the audio issues fixed for next time.

In this week’s community stream, Derick and Matt discussed a bunch of random topics, ranging from the technical, to the humorous. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel to be notified of all video content we release, and tune in live every Monday at 10AM Pacific time to our Twitch Channel for the opportunity to ask live questions and get them answered on-stream!

Today we released our first public edition of the NRE Labs community stream. Today’s episode included an introduction to the vast changes to the selfmedicate tool, which is an environemnt that spins up Antidote on your own laptop, so you can quickly and easily iterate on new or modified lesson content! Take a look: Subscribe to our Youtube Channel to be notified of all video content we release, and tune in live every Monday at 10AM Pacific time to our Twitch Channel for the opportunity to ask live questions and get them answered on-stream!

In taking one last question for Q&A at the end of my talk on network reliability engineering, a plucky member of the audience shot up his hand. I remember he asked how he could possibly hope to achieve becoming a highly productive NRE. Because my talk had espoused applying the rigors of software engineering to NetOps, he wanted to know if becoming an NRE also meant becoming a master of programming, algorithms and software architecture.

The next minor version for NRE Labs is OUT! But wait - wasn’t v0.2.0 just a few weeks ago? Already with another minor release? Why yes my loyal reader, already with another minor release. The lab mice were working overtime over the past ten days or so bringing some really cool new content and platform features, so much that it warranted a full minor release version bump. We’re excited to get you this new release just in time for Valentine’s Day, but even more excited that this content is available in time for a live demo at Networking Field Day 20, which is taking place in just under five hours!