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Daniel Eduardo Tudares Castillo Feb 09, 2023

As someone that, as many other network engineer, started the automation journey with Python, I really appreciated the first chapter, getting to know the Why? and compare Go vs Python gave me a very good perspective at the reasons to look beyond the tools I was already confortable with. From there, I realized that getting started with another language doesn't have to be hard, and this book definitely pave the way for doing just that.This book is very well written and I appreciate the author's effort to cover the topics with examples that you can follow along in your own environment. Finally, I though the Expert Insights chapter was such a great addition and gave a great closure to this book. Getting to know the people in the field and real live use cases is a great motivation and example of how Go is being used out there.Great book, will recommend to anyone in Network Automation, even if you are not interested in learning a new language, there is still a lot of value on understanding what's out there and the options we have.

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M Fernandez Feb 04, 2023

Great book that goes through fundamental concepts and properly positions Go in the network automation problem space. The hands on excercises are spot on

Mearaj Bhagad Apr 20, 2023

It's a very good book.It also explains some decent low level stuff in golang.I haven't completed all the chapters, but completed enough to write a review.Highly recommended.Thanks :)

Christian Adell Feb 27, 2023

If you are a network engineer, with some software development foundations, this book will bring your Go knowledge from zero to solving real network automation problems using several network interfaces, and automation frameworks. It's remarkable how Go concepts and packages are introduced progressively, learning by example, and with a lot of references to extend the knowledge.

Josh Van Deraa Jan 19, 2024

Found the concepts in the book very complete and a good set of examples for working with network devices using GoLang. Definitely the place to start when it comes to interacting with network devices. My current recommendation in this space.

Network Automation with Go: Learn how to automate network operations and build applications using the Go programming language

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