On 14 October 2020, I took and passed the Automating Cisco Service Provider Solutions (SPAUTO) exam on my first attempt. This is the fifth DevNet exam I’ve passed and was a topic area in which I was already strong. Many
Happy 10-year Anniversary Lostintransit
Wow! I can’t believe it. I’ve been blogging for 10 years! Where did time go? July 16th 2010 is when I posted the first time to this blog. It was a post saying “I’m game” and I included Radia Perlman’s
Why I Have Almost Quit Podcasts
Fear Of Missing Out People that know me know that I like to stay up to date on what’s going on in the industry, new technologies, and so on. Mostly this is because I have a passion for technology and
Cisco IT Blog Awards Finalist
I’m proud to announce that I’ve been selected as a finalist in the Cisco IT Blog Awards in the “most inspirational” category. I’m happy to be in this category as I hope that my posts here have inspired others to
Passed AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Hi, Yesterday I took the AWS Solutions Architect Associate and passed it which means I’m now certified. I started studying for this exam around the August time frame. I had wanted to get some exposure to public cloud to broaden
Introducing Network4dev
Intro Some of you may have heard it through the grapevine but it’s time to make my plans known. I have founded a new website called Network4dev which has been setup by my friend Cristian Sirbu. What is it? Network4dev
Certification – Major News for Expert Level Recertification
Certification – Major News for Expert Level Recertification Everyone holding an expert level Cisco certification knows the pain of recertifying. Recertification today is achieved by taking any expert level written exam which means you can take the written in the
One Month to Cisco Live Las Vegas
We’re down to just a month before it’s time for Cisco Live in Las Vegas 2017. I’m really looking forward to meeting with a lot of people and attending some great sessions. This will also be my first event as
General – Happy New Year!
Happy new year to all the readers of the blog! I’ve been lacking the time to update the blog lately which I’m sorry for. Work is keeping me busy with some interesting projects. I hope to get a bit more
General – Network Engineering vs Coding
Introduction There has been a lot of talking about the future of the network engineer for the last couple of years. Many articles have declared that we MUST learn to program or we will be banished from the world by