Hello Welcome to the July 2016 edition of the DevNet Update, your connection to Cisco DevNet and our developer technologies. There's never been a better time to join DevNet! Best regards The DevNet team
Here's what you'll find in this issue:
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Discover and Submit Your Solutions on DevNet Creations
Do you create and build innovations using Cisco APIs? Do you want to connect with your peers and showcase your innovations or are you looking for ideas for a solution? DevNet Creations (previously DevNet Labs) is the place for you to share and discover what others are building with Cisco APIs. Come showcase what you are building, discover what your fellow developers are working on, and get inspired! Below are just a few of the projects available, read more. - DevIoT: An extensible, integrated development environment that helps design, deploy, and operate IoT apps.
- Glance: A cloud application that uses indoor location information to find experts, track devices, and assets.
- NeXt UI: A HTML5/JavaScript based toolkit that makes it easy to visualize network topologies in network web applications.
Explore DevNet Creations to learn more and to submit your creation today!
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Build Connections with DevNet Communities of Interest
Join us as we've recently launched Communities of Interest! What's so exciting about them? They are places designed around your interests and needs. They are places to visit regularly to interact, learn, and connect with other community members and DevNet staff. Find and join a Community (or Communities!) - Digital Network Architecture (DNA): Discuss all things DNA in this new community that gives network developers, architects, and operators a place to come together to learn, exchange ideas, inspire, and innovate.
- *NEW* Meraki: Together with Todd Nightingale (CEO of Meraki), we are happy to announce our new DevNet Community of Interest for Meraki. Check out and join to collaborate with developers and networking engineers and learn about cloud networking solutions.
- DevNet Women in Tech: Men and women alike are welcome to join our supportive environment to make it easier to learn, code, and build software and technology innovations.
- STEAM: How can we inspire the next generation of innovators (kids!) by bringing together Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math? Have an idea? We want to know!
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Thank You Very Much! [Said in Our Best Elvis Voice]
So long Cisco Live Vegas! From our entire team to everyone that came to the DevNet Zone, we'd like to say THANK YOU for coming to code, learn, connect, to get inspired and for inspiring others. Your insights were amazing, your journeys inspiring, and most of all - we can't wait to hear where the future takes you. Didn't attend Cisco Live or want to revisit the event? Don't miss the following: - What happens when the world becomes digital? In the age of digital disruption the definition of a developer is changing and growing. Everyone in Cisco DevNet is here to support you in your journey as you digitize your organization. Tune in to watch and listen to Susie Wee, VP and CTO of DevNet in the Innovation Tech Talk: Unleash Your Geek with Cisco DevNet - Everyone is a Developer in Today's Innovation-Driven Economy.
- Hackathon Highlights! The weekend before Cisco Live, we held a hackathon with a special theme around Connected Bees. Teams used IoT and Collaboration technologies (Meraki, Spark, Tropo, Zeus, Shipped) to engage in close monitoring of the bees. They were challenged to look for innovative ways to improve the understanding and information available of the bee ecology using IoT devices from relayr and data from Data 61. Congratulations to the winning team 'Plan Bee' who used thermal cameras, Raspberry Pis, and Cisco Spark. Second place went to team 'BeeTRI' using relayr IoT sensors with Cisco Spark and Tropo. Third place was awarded to team 'Bee Keeper' as they used Tropo and relayr to connect scientists and hobbyists to collaborate on beehive data. Get all the hackathon highlights here and dig into the code.
- Network Programmability at the DevNet Springboard Event: Before Cisco Live, we offered a concentrated, 2-day event focused on network engineers that want to dive into and better understand programming interfaces that are needed to manage network controllers and devices. Grab all the details here and see how asynchronous REST calls work with the APIC-EM controller.
- Catch the learning train with new learning tracks and tutorials available in DevNet Learning Labs! New learning tracks include Cloud Native Applications, UCS Compute Programmability, and Expose, Compose, and Govern Digital Assets with REST APIs. Find all the details on new tutorials too - from Finesse to Mantl and Meraki, and more.
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Shaping Our Future with DevNet Women in Tech
The DevNet Women in Tech activities at Cisco Live was nothing short of spectacular! On-site we held our second ’Do-ers’ Workshop focused on hands-on learning and doing in the world of IoT with REST APIs and Arduinos. Our inspiring women-in-tech do-ers started with coding and Arduino basics and then put their new skills into practice by creating their first IoT circuits and apps using our DevNet Creation project, DevIoT. As always, our DevNet Women in Tech event was geared towards providing a supportive environment for women to code and had both women and men participate. As we were building and doing, we connected and shared stories about why we were there and where we want to go with this community. Over the course of the week we heard some ask, "Why Women in Tech?" For the answer watch Susie Wee and Denise Donohue talk about how the Cisco Women Empowered Network pass changed her family's life in the Cisco Live 2016 Backstage Pass: Keynote Recap & WoS Opening video. Join us and help shape our future for a global community where both women and men can join and participate. It doesn't matter if you are technical, non-technical, a coding novice or an advanced programmer. We welcome anyone who wants to get hands-on with software and share their experiences. Let's work together to build a thriving, supportive community. Go here to get started! Back to top
DevNet Innovators: Highlights
This month we continue to go into the code with DevNet Innovators! Check out our latest posts on indoor location services, Cisco DNA, and IoT! - What can you do with indoor location services and how complicated is it to get started? For the answers, check out Indoor Location Services: Introduction to IoT Networking. While many IoT posts focus on developing the things, this post focuses on the network that's connecting the things. But beyond the network, we talk about the APIs involved. We specifically show you how to go about setting up blue dot functionality for indoor location services.
- Our journey into Network Automation continues with Part 3 and Part 4 of the "APIC-EM API Productivity Series" for network engineers from Adam Radford that dives deeper into the code and is meant for network engineers that are getting started in API and scripting.
- What do bees, a hackathon, and DevNet have in common? Dig into the details from the Cisco DevNet hackathon that used IoT and collaboration tools to help track bees that enabled research scientists with the data needed to unearth bee health problems. Check out this solution created in less than 24 hours.
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What's Your DevNet Sandbox Wish List?
Do you want to see new Sandbox environments? Would you like to request new features? We want to know! Submit your idea to our Sandbox Wish List. Contribute your ideas and vote on community suggestions. Let's get the conversation started! Back to top
Upcoming Events
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Event Highlights
Thanks for attending our events (in person or by following us @CiscoDevNet). You are the reason they are a success! Back to top
Updates to DevNet Community Content
Content on DevNet is always being updated! Here are some new pages and updates: - Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI): The Cisco ACI programmability model allows for complete programmatic access to the application centric infrastructure. With this access, you can integrate your network deployment into management and monitoring tools and deploy new workloads programmatically.
- Data Learning Platform (DLP): An integrated data platform that includes an easy-to-use UI, Docker-based infrastructure, open-source components, and Cisco's APIs and tools for data developers and data scientists.
- Firepower: Cisco Firepower Management Center platform and Cisco AMP Cloud offer powerful, documented integration points. The context-rich APIs allow for the exchange of network and endpoint security event data and host information. The REST API supports policy management.
- Mantl: A modern platform for rapidly deploying globally distributed services.
- Meraki: Learn what you can do with the Meraki Developer Program.
- Network Hosted Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM): Many devices allow you to host your own industry-standard KVM virtual machine directly. This page enables you to start crafting your own application.
- NX-OS: Open NX-OS on the Cisco Nexus platform exposes APIs, data models, and programmatic constructs. Using APIs and configuration agents, operators can affect configuration changes programmatically.
- Open Device Programmability (ODP): Open Device Programmability enables standards based integration on Cisco switches and routers. Whether you’re interested in provisioning, configuring, operating, accessing the data path or simply running your app on a device, this site will help you get started.
- Sandbox: Find updated tables and links.
- Shipped: Deliver modern applications in Docker containers with fast, reliable continuous delivery.
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About DevNet and the DevNet Update
DevNet Update is the monthly newsletter for Cisco's DevNet. DevNet is the web site for Cisco's Developer Program, providing tools and information that help you to produce Cisco-enabled applications to sell to Cisco customers, and/or use Cisco APIs to enhance or manage your existing Cisco network. DevNet puts on developer events throughout the year. You can see what events we have scheduled on our event page. At some of the Cisco Live conferences we put on full developer conferences called the DevNet Zone ‐ the next one will be at Cisco Live in Cancun in November.
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That's all for this month. See you in August! The Cisco DevNet team |
