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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

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Articles

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.

November 30, 2020

DEVELOPER

Leverage the Power of the Python Community

3 min read

See how built-in Python library functions can save you coding time, and give you the performance and output quality you want.

October 22, 2020

DEVELOPER

New Job Roles Equal New Opportunities

3 min read

See how DevNet learning paths and certifications make it easier for network engineers to acquire and use new skills.

September 24, 2020

DEVELOPER

Introduction to Programmability – Part 2

17 min read

In this part of Khaled Abuelenain's series you'll learn about NETCONF and eXtensible Markup Language (XML).

September 16, 2020

DEVELOPER

Introduction to Programmability – Part 1

10 min read

Take your first step to a better understanding of network programmability and automation with author (and double CCIE) Khaled Abuelenain.

September 8, 2020

DEVELOPER

Using the New Cisco SD-WAN SDK

2 min read

See how the new Cisco SD-WAN SDK for Cisco vManage is used in automating the configuration and operation of Cisco SD-WAN deployments using Python. Experience the benefits of interacting with vManage programmatically.

August 31, 2020

DEVELOPER

How AppHosting Boosts WAN Performance for Remote Education

3 min read

Learn how the Cisco and NetBeez integration helps proactively detect network problems and efficiently troubleshoot remote end-user network performance, to make the shift to remote education easier. Free webinar, Sept 10th.

August 26, 2020

DEVELOPER

New Cisco SD-WAN API Documentation

2 min read

Test drive the developer documentation for API reference and how-to information - such as getting started and use cases - in the new DevNet always on SD-WAN Sandbox.

June 22, 2020

DEVELOPER

New SD-WAN Sandboxes and Postman Collections…Try Them Now

2 min read

Learn how to interact with the Cisco SD-WAN vManage REST API to automatically monitor and improve application traffic, generate reports on statistics, and trigger policy updates.

May 12, 2020

DEVELOPER

Take a Deep Dive into the New SD-WAN DevNet Sandbox

1 min read

Getting hands-on with Cisco SD-WAN will help you with key parts of exams for several Cisco certifications. Register for the May 26th webinar.

March 30, 2020

DEVELOPER

Can Deep Learning with TensorFlow Fund Highways? Let’s Code It.

13 min read

Matyáš Prokop takes you on a step-by-step journey to build a camera system which would read car license plates and send details to a backend database.

March 31, 2020

DEVELOPER

Implementing Cisco SD-WAN deployments with Cisco Action Orchestrator

5 min read

The ability to connect any data services into the SD-WAN gives organizations amazing elasticity. See how to connect the store or remote office to your data center using Cisco SD-WAN API's and Cisco Action Orchestrator.

March 4, 2020

DEVELOPER

How to Speed Up Root Cause Analysis with Rookout

4 min read

See how Rookout lets you debug and get data from running applications in any environment (including production) without stopping the application and without impacting its performance.

December 3, 2019

DEVELOPER

DevNet Certifications – Preparing for “Developing Applications Using Cisco Core Platforms and APIs” Exam

4 min read

Get ready to pass the exam for a Cisco DevNet Specialist Certification in Developing Applications Using Cisco Core Platforms and APIs.

November 13, 2019

DEVELOPER

Explore Model-Driven Telemetry

4 min read

See how Model-driven Telemetry provides near real-time access to your network's operational statistics.

November 12, 2019

DEVELOPER

DevNet Certifications – How To Prepare for the Service Provider Automation and Programmability Exam

3 min read

December 3rd webinar helps you prepare for the exam. Show you the software skills to build and manage modern networks.

October 28, 2019

DEVELOPER

Enhance Your Development Environment with Visual Studio Code Extensions

3 min read

Cool extensions in VScode make your development life easier.

October 7, 2019

DEVELOPER

Cisco DNA, NetBeez Agents, and App Hosting on Cat9K

2 min read

Learn how the Cisco DNA integration with NetBeez helps with app hosting on Cat9K switches. Watch the live webinar October 14.

October 2, 2019

DEVELOPER

New DevNet Postman Collection Makes Using APIs Easier

2 min read

The Cisco DevNet Postman Collection of pre-built APIs makes life easier to save, reuse, and share your API requests.