If you’re a network engineer, don’t rush out and learn a programming language. To compete in the new world of software-defined networking, it might be more important to start thinking like a ...

Networks consist of distributed nodes — routers, switches and the like — that systems administrators and network engineers have, for the most part, managed individually via command line interfaces.

Ryan Tischer, a technical services architect at Cisco Systems, is the author of Programming and Automating Cisco Networks. Networks consist of distributed nodes — routers, switches and the like — that ...