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From Operator to Agent Manager: The Real Shift in Network Engineering

Every year I moved the goalposts, because the data never caught up to the rhetoric. After a decade of scripts, YAML, Ansible, Terraform, and every NetDevOps framework we could throw at the problem, roughly […]

From Operator to Agent Manager: The Real Shift in Network Engineering

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