Brent Salisbury

Brent is a Principle Software Engineer with over 20 years of networking and compute experience. He started in network ops and architecture and gradually transitioned into network software development. He is as bullish as ever on the future of the prospects for young engineers entering the networking industry.

We have witnessed trends in networking come and go, and projects succeed and fail during a few innovation cycle booms and busts in the still-young life of the internet. Through these important iterations, one paradigm shift that will stick is the adoption of DevOps practices in networking. A core component of DevOps is automation. To scale network automation, it is important to have tools that are powerful yet not overly complex to use for the operator. The authors have done an excellent job laying out reasons Go has arguably become the de facto language for infrastructure programming over the past few years as libraries have matured, and some of the largest...