#44: Ivan Pepelnjak 2: The top 10 skills Network Engineers need to learn in 2019!

What are the top 10 skills and technologies you need to learn in 2019? CCNA? Python? AWS? Ivan Pepelnjak shares his knowledge about SDN, OpenFlow, NSX, Whitebox switching, disaggregation, Cumulus Linux and a whole lot more. Use the menu to jump to a specific topic.

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Top 10 skills discussion starts here: 01:09:10

Menu:

00:17 - Introductions

01:15 - Ivan's new content and interesting courses

03:00 - Webinar content

05:25 - Do Network Engineers need to know the theory behind specific topics like OSPF

09:50 - What is SDN?

19:34 - OpenFlow implementations

22:20 - Other SDN solutions

24:02 - What is Cisco ACI?

27:40 - What is VMware NSX? 

33:00 - How do the other SDN solutions compare?

35:00 - Should I study Cisco or AWS?

43:50 - Will we still have jobs in the cloud era? Will AWS and Azure replace my jobs?

47:07 - Will automation replace network engineers? Will AI replace us?

50:40 - AWS versus CCIE?

53:00 - Cumulus and other vendor switches used by Facebook, Amazon etc Why should I care?

59:55 - What is Whitebox switching / disaggregation?

01:09:10 - Should Network Engineers learn Linux?

01:09:47 - What technologies should I learn today if I'm starting out in my career?

01:13:45 - Other skills you should get today? Soft skills / mentorship.

01:15:00 - Don't fake it!

Top 10 technologies and skills to learn in 2019:

1) Networking - obviously you need to know networking if you are a network engineer :) Get your ccna / CCNP / CCIE

2) Linux

3) Git

4) Python

5) Higher level automation tool like Ansible / Bash / Make

6) Networking on Linux

7) Cloud skills like AWS or Azure 

8) Application Architectures

9) Soft skills

10) Mentoring 

Courses:

Python for Network Engineers ($10):

Udemy: http://bit.ly/2Wwb0aD

GNS3 Academy: https://goo.gl/vnZJhg

Linux for Network Engineers ($10):

Udemy: https://bit.ly/2EFyHU8

GNS3 Academy: https://bit.ly/2HuEY80

Ansible for Network Engineers ($10):

Udemy: http://bit.ly/305b5nL

Cumulus Linux ($10):

http://bit.ly/2LKyIPx

DavidBombal.com: All courses are part of subscription http://www.davidbombal.com

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