> Mark Tinka > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 5:04 AM > > On 23/Jul/20 01:04, Brandon Martin wrote: > > > > > Of course, there's also plenty of folks out there without them or any > > certs at all that are just as useful in practice. Getting those > > particular certifications does, however, seem to be a useful path to > > learning things that are actually of use in the "real world". I look > > at such certificates similar to how I'd look at a 2- or 4-year degree > > in a related IT field and just a somewhat different, and perhaps more > > approachable for the self-coached or differently-learning, path. > > We live in a time where I am concerned about the engineers we > are creating, where point & click seems to trump basic understanding + CLI > knowledge. My concern is when it all goes to hell at 3AM, do the next > generation of network engineers have the base fundamentals to understand > why iBGP isn't coming up, even though you can "ping" and IGP adjacencies > are up and stable? > Hopefully well end up in a world where all checks one can do to figure out why iBGP session is down along with suggested corrective actions will be coded in some network self-healing workflow. But to answer your question, probably no, cause current industry is systematically converting network engineers into coders.
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