Will Network Engineers still have jobs? Or will Software Developers replace Network Engineers?

Will Network Engineers still have jobs in future? Will the CCNA, CCNP and CCIE be replaced with a software developer?

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[yaxiangz.]

I literally screamed when that guy said picking up networking stuff is more challenging than picking up software engineering :))) be proud! All the Network engineers!!!!

[NetworkEvolution]

True, Network Engineering skills will be valuable always, only the way network engineers work might change. They might focus more on automating tasks and scripting. But still protocol knowledge is must.

[kairoswave]

I am a Software Engineer and I recently picked up the CCENT book and I was like what the hell is this!? haha but I love it.

[slosh]

I'm a network engineer and I have CCIE. About half a year ago I started my python journey and now I can say with confidence - I taught myself how to code. My last script was about 600 lines of code.

The book that gave me the real boost is this
Eric Matthes - Python Crash Course. A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming

Don't be afraid the coding is easy ;)

[davidbombal]

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[NB-gxxr]

This is one funny video....
Most of the Software Developers have no idea how the network works.
A Network Engineer can learn programming quicker than a Software Developer learning Networking (CCNA).
All the Network Engineers( Admins) will get upgrade in the future.

[edsonrocks]

Sometimes I feel that Networking is becoming commodities like electricity. People use it everywhere, but don't really care how it works.
The networking hardware is less and less important, if it doesn't work, it is just replaced.
The average network tasks are becoming less relevant, only high profile architecture is still important.

Thank you for this video.
It's really good.

[dogstar]

Love this, David! My background is sysadmin, then on to web programming, and now I'm going for a CCENT/CCNA ( using your courses!), and I LOVE that I might be able to interface with programmers effectively, with my own knowledge of Python and programming, but still be useful ( integral??) as a network engineer. Good on ya for all the great and helpful material you continue to share, David!

[zadkieladdae]

Software Defined Networking is taking over the CLI and to remain in the game you have to start learning and getting use to programming languages (e.g. python) relating to network. It good to learn new things and it makes you feel different (in a good way).

[osazemeusen]

I did alot of reading up in CCNA and a little CCNP before veering into software engineering. Building fault tolerant distributed systems require deep knowledge in networking

[vejamoxdan]

Just to share my experience with you, colleagues:

I started to learning programming in 2014. I use tcl and expect and now I'm an enthusiastic of ansible. Using those old-fashioned but powerful languages I automated a lot of things in my company. One of my automation was to configure dot1x on more than 4500 switches, with a lot of variables. One of the issues found, was that in some switches, for instance, one server was connected on port fa0/7 but on other switch, the port was connected on fa0/19, where this type of port should be configured with mab firstly lieu of dot1x. In order to achieve this, I developed a proc with nmap, to discover the fqdn of servers, connecting on router, taking the arp and consequently, their mac-address. Turned back to the switch, I matched just this server's mac with this own port where was just this particular mac. That way I configured exactly the port where the server was connected.

[kaykann]

Network Engineers are like Network Architect, they design network solution; be on Prem or in Cloud. Soft Developers are not Architects.

[ttech]

I really like the Q and A format. Would like to see more of this format, getting perspective from Network or other technology professionals.

[enesfils]

Great job David!!! I am recent graduated from ICT(Networking & Telecommunications) so I really appreciate your videos and I am sure those content are helping to understand more my career, being certified and do my task as well as I have to do that as a Network Engineer!!! Thanks again for the content!

[mohamed-amezianemaouene]

I think that none of them will replace each other but instead each one of them will develop it's second field so that we will have a network engineer with sotfware dev. skills and vice versa

[orleydoss]

Great content, really appreciate the insite of the developers side and the convergence / overlaps. Great to be well rounded. 👍

[georgehewitt]

David your an inspiration to the networking community. Keep up the good work.

[edtorres]

Awesome information David. I'm looking forward to attending some DevNet sessions at CLUS in a week to learn more about automating deployments.

[sidheekmohammed]

Informative video :) thanks David and Devnet team

[PatrickKinane]

I like hearing this. I’ve wondered about the future with programming getting more attention.