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Hello, New API – Part 1 Learning a new system API may feel like a daunting task. As a network engineer you may feel unsure about how to begin. Fortunately, the way to learn any API‑based system – whether a controller product, a cloud system, or even a device API – follows the same set of steps. In this post, I guide you through the initial steps and highlight key aspects to note as you are learning to use a new API. You may be using commercial products and open source projects; for convenience, here the term product refers to both. This first post in a two‑part series focuses on documentation, client libraries, and API authentication. Part 2 will focus on API read‑only and read‑write activities. Documentation The first step is to locate the API documentation, and the first item to look for [ more… ]

APIOps: Delivering Your APIs as Fast as They Perform The landscape of IT has been changing for the last decade or more – you’ve probably experienced the changes in your day-to-day work or at least read about them in a book like The Phoenix Project. I’ve been a traditional infrastructure engineer and consultant for most of my career, and in the last five or so years my role has changed dramatically. I’ve had to adapt and pick up new skills along the way. Most roles in the modern enterprise straddle everything that I learned in the early years of my career about delivering high‑performance, robust infrastructure platforms, plus all the new skills I’ve picked up in software development, automation, and cloud technologies. Delivering modern applications that are mostly API‑driven requires a broad range of skills and understanding of multiple business units [ more… ]

Bridging the App Modernization Gap, Part 2 In the first post in this series, we talked about what is driving enterprises to modernize their applications. I hope it caught your attention and made you think more about your own modernization plans. Read on to learn what you need to consider when designing your strategy for app modernization. Why Do I Need to Modernize Applications? As with any technology project, the first question should be why. Why modernize apps? Is it really necessary, or is it just a fad? 2020 has highlighted, amongst other things, the value of the digital experience. Enterprises that have more modern applications, infrastructure, and approaches found it more straightforward to respond to COVID‑19 than those who don’t. They seemed to find it easier to evolve and meet these very challenging circumstances, because they were less constrained [ more… ]