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Here at DevNet, we really love APIs. (Duh!) And while we hope you enjoy consuming Cisco’s APIs and making awesome integrated solutions with us, if you’ve ever worked on a software project of any complexity you’ve likely been faced with creating your own private/internal (or even public facing) APIs. Putting together a few GET requests and an HTTP listener for a client/server app you control is fairly easy. However, once you start adding components, users,…

The new paradigm that enterprises deal with includes connecting users to countless applications including business critical applications which may be hosted on-premises or in the cloud. With millions of users worldwide connecting – from many sources, enterprises and service providers have not been able to accurately and completely monitor, report on, and manage service and performance levels of all of these interactions. To reduce network congestion and increase operational efficiency -, customers must be able…

The Meraki team recently announced Webhook **Custom** Payload Templates, a new way to receive and present network alerts. Learn more and engage with the team in the Meraki Community post, and learn more about the details below. The new Webhook Payload Templates feature is awesome! But we’re getting questions from you like: Can I change the formatting a little? Does this work with my favorite messaging service? Do you support custom authentication headers? Instead of…

It’s a time of transition and digital transformation in financial services. Whether a retail bank, wealth management firm, credit union, or insurance company with a banking segment, the financial industry is facing dramatic changes on how best to accommodate customers, and what is the appropriate mix between brick-and-mortar bank branches, remote work, self-service ATMs, and digital platforms. Financial institutions are now working to build intelligent branches. The intelligent branch is designed to execute business with…

The new paradigm that enterprises deal with includes connecting users to countless applications including business critical applications which may be hosted on-premises or in the cloud. With millions of users worldwide connecting – from many sources, enterprises and service providers have not been able to accurately and completely monitor, report on, and manage service and performance levels of all of these interactions. To reduce network congestion and increase operational efficiency -, customers must be able…

In the six years I have worked on the Cisco Corporate Affairs team, I have seen firsthand how natural disasters and humanitarian crises impact some of the world’s most vulnerable people.   From Hurricane Maria devastating the island of Puerto Rico to armed conflicts forcing people to flee countries like Syria and South Sudan – when crises occur, they most often affect already vulnerable communities that lack the resources to respond and recover from them.   According to the UN, 82.4 million individuals have…

SCTE Cable-Tec Expo starts this week and runs from October 11-14. I do not know about you, but I was optimistic that we finally get together in person this fall for SCTE Expo, especially since this year it is in my hometown of Atlanta. Unfortunately, we will have to live with another virtual experience, but that does not mean Cisco does not have some great content to share with the industry. I am excited to…

Several years ago, my mother spent more than a month in the ICU at our local hospital, and I was the “daughter on the spot.” The several-times-a-day ICU visitor. The family contact with her medical team. The texter of updates and answerer of calls. My sisters lived hours away, so I was the one who held the phone for FaceTime on the days they couldn’t visit, giving my mom a chance to hear my sisters’…

Ever heard of Homebrew? It’s a package manager with a very unusual feature. It allows ordinary users to install packages without using sudo, and it’s available for both macOS and Linux. While the tool on each of these systems is referred to as Homebrew, the Linux version installs as linuxbrew. Once installed, users can use Homebrew via the brew command to install packages very easily. Installation of Homebrew itself, however, does generally require sudo privileges…

It’s the time of year when most enterprises are involved in a more-or-less-formal technology review cycle, as a preparatory step for next year’s budgeting. They’ve done this for decades, and it’s interesting to me that in any given year, enterprises share roughly three of their top five priorities. It’s more interesting that over three-quarters of enterprises carry over at least two of their top five priorities for multiple years. Why aren’t they getting addressed? They…