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Stuart Clark

Senior Developer Advocate Of Community, AWS

Stuart Clark is a Developer Advocate, author for Cisco Press, and a Cisco Certified DevNet Expert #20220005. Stuart started his career as a hairdresser in 1990, and in 2008 he changed careers to become a network engineer. After cutting his teeth in network operations he moved to network projects and programs. After many years as a network engineer, Stuart became obsessed with network automation and joined Cisco DevNet as a Developer Advocate for network automation. Stuart contributed to the DevNet exams and was one of the SME teams that created, designed, and built the Cisco Certified DevNet Expert. Stuart has presented at over fifty external conferences and is a multi-time Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker covering topics on network automation and methodologies. Stuart lives in Lincoln England with his wife Natalie and their son Maddox, he plays guitar and rocks an impressive two-foot beard whilst drinking coffee.

GitHub: http://github.com/bigevilbeard

Learn more about Stuart's work on his Developer Advocate profile page.

Articles

June 23, 2022

DEVELOPER

Meet Rapidly Scaling Cloud Data Center Requirements with SONiC

2 min read

Learn how SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) allows cloud operators to share the same software stack across hardware from multiple vendors. See how the SONiC Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) enables ASIC and hardware abstraction and network operating systems portability.

May 2, 2022

DEVELOPER

Observability vs. monitoring for DevOps

4 min read

We need both monitoring and observability in the DevOps world. Let’s look at these two concepts in more detail.

March 7, 2022

DEVELOPER

Explore Secure DDoS Edge Protection with new Sandbox and Learning Labs

2 min read

Learn how to protect a mobile edge network environment from malicious attacks hidden inside GTP packets. Then use the sandbox to test your solution.

February 24, 2022

DEVELOPER

SD-WAN Sandboxes Get a Refresh

2 min read

Want to polish your network automation chops? Try the new always-On SD-WAN Sandbox using a prebuilt Postman collection.

February 17, 2022

DEVELOPER

Using NSO with pyATS Parsers to Check Operational State

4 min read

See how you can automate network checks with NSO and the pyATS parser, and create an Excel document for audit.

December 15, 2021

DEVELOPER

The APIs We’re Experimenting with Over the Holidays

5 min read

What APIs and tools will you be working on (or playing with) this holiday season? Here's what some of the DevNet Developer Advocates have in mind to do (when they're not stuffing themselves with holiday sweets :-)

October 19, 2021

DEVELOPER

Pair Programming with AI: How Cisco Works with Tabnine

2 min read

See how Tabnine enables team programming with an autocomplete-like tool that predicts what you want to write based on the code you/your team has written previously, as well as best open-source coding practices.

October 14, 2021

DEVELOPER

New SD-WAN Reporting Tool Makes Real-time Visibility Easier

1 min read

The new SD-WAN reporting tool is easy to deploy, and gives you real-time visibility into tunnel performance, bandwidth consumption, and site availability. Watch this video demo to see how.

September 15, 2021

DEVELOPER

The Path to NSO Knowledge, Sapere Aude!

2 min read

The new Cisco NSO Dev Center adds three key new pieces for your developer learning experience. Try it out! Then join us for NSO Developer Days, September 14-15.

June 23, 2021

DEVELOPER

Enable Digital Transformation with Cisco SD-WAN

2 min read

See how a recent API Insights webinar showed Cisco DevNet Specialized partners how Cisco SD-WAN unlocks new possibilities for their customer's network infrastructure.

March 23, 2021

DEVELOPER

Find Out What’s New for NSO on DevNet

1 min read

See a demo of known best practices for using Cisco NSO in areas such as data modelling, service templates, and using the Python and RESTCONF API. Register to attend the live webinar April 8th, 9:00 am PDT | 16:00 GMT.

March 15, 2021

DEVELOPER

Get Ready to Explore gRPC in the DevNet IOS XR Always-on Sandbox

4 min read

Learn how to use gRPC to build a device management service to programmatically exchange configuration and operational data between a client and a server.

February 23, 2021

DEVELOPER

How Cisco DevNet Runs Developer Education – Postman Galaxy session

1 min read

See how Postman enables DevNet to offer interactive educational materials that help users quickly get hands-on with Cisco APIs to learn how they work.

March 2, 2021

DEVELOPER

Automation Exchange: Find Use-cases Powered by the Community

3 min read

Check out the many new use cases that have been submitted to the DevNet Automation Exchange - learn to walk, run, and fly with network automation.

February 8, 2021

DEVELOPER

Explore NSO in the new Always-On DevNet Sandbox

2 min read

Find everything you need to explore the APIs for NSO, as well as develop network automation packages and services for use in your networks.

January 20, 2021

DEVELOPER

Cisco DevNet Runs Interactive Developer Education on Postman

2 min read

Hear how Postman Collections enable DevNet to offer interactive educational materials that help users quickly get hands-on with Cisco APIs to learn how they work and solve business problems.

December 8, 2020

DEVELOPER

How Cisco Embraced a DevOps Culture

2 min read

If it is not repeatable, it’s not automatable. And if it is not automatable, it’s not scalable.

November 18, 2020

DEVELOPER

Introduction to Programmability – Part 3

19 min read

In this 3rd and final part of the series, you will learn more about RESTful APIs; understand the relationship between HTTP, REST, and RESTful APIs; and see how to consume a RESTful API using Python.