Mark Tinka Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 5:04 AM
On 23/Jul/20 01:04, Brandon Martin wrote:
Of course, there's also plenty of folks out there without them or any certs at all that are just as useful in practice. Getting those particular certifications does, however, seem to be a useful path to learning things that are actually of use in the "real world". I look at such certificates similar to how I'd look at a 2- or 4-year degree in a related IT field and just a somewhat different, and perhaps more approachable for the self-coached or differently-learning, path.
We live in a time where I am concerned about the engineers we are creating, where point & click seems to trump basic understanding + CLI knowledge. My concern is when it all goes to hell at 3AM, do the next generation of network engineers have the base fundamentals to understand why iBGP isn't coming up, even though you can "ping" and IGP adjacencies are up and stable?
Hopefully well end up in a world where all checks one can do to figure out why iBGP session is down along with suggested corrective actions will be coded in some network self-healing workflow. But to answer your question, probably no, cause current industry is systematically converting network engineers into coders. adam