Preface
Howdy! As I transition from network engineering to software engineering, I understand how hard it is for developers to understand computer network concepts and how hard it is for network engineers to understand software concepts.
As applications become cloud-based and content is stored in the cloud, network infrastructure is the most important asset for today’s businesses. A 10 GE interface down for 15 minutes is equivalent to 1 TB of missing data. Minimizing downtime, maximizing capacity and speed, and lowering latency and jitter are the major performance indicators for network providers today. And it’s becoming impossible to improve these indicators without network automation, from the concept and design of the network to daily network ...
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