Cisco Systems Inc. wants to school developers with special ed in such scary subjects as quality of service for applications and microservices management. Its DevNet strategic initiative co-creations taps partners to build the curriculum. The networking legacy is working closely with its top customers, developers and partners to help them leverage the DevNet developer community.

“We are looking at each of these three categories and saying, how can we actually help and take that to the next level with DevNet?” said Ashutosh Malegaonkar (pictured), lead technical director of DevNet innovations at Cisco Systems.

The fruits of the company’s toil include collaborative developer assists built with Apple Inc., Google Cloud Platform and the Istio open-source microservices management platform. 

Malegaonkar spoke with John Furrier (@furrier) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Cisco Live event in Barcelona, Spain. (* Disclosure below.)

QoS, hybrid and microservice syllabi

It’s QoS Fastlane is an app-validation program that educates developers on what is typically not their favorite topic. “As soon as we say ‘quality of service,’ they freak out,” Malegaonkar said. In Fastlane, developers can learn to understand how quality of service works and see them on to validating their apps in DevNet.

Cisco and Google are lending a hand to developers befuddled by hybrid-cloud confusion with an open solution that lets them move services from on-premises to the cloud, and vice versa. “We have our security services all the way from on-prem to the cloud deployed in the Google Cloud system,” Malegaonkar said.

The company’s work with Google does not stop there. The two are collaborating on Istio, an open-source platform to connect, manage and secure microservices. They developed a sandbox for Istio that is becoming one of the most popular among the DevNet community for its 101 on Istio.

“It’s kind of an industry first where developers are able to […] go through a learning lab to actually understand what it means,” Malegaonkar concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Cisco Live Barcelona 2018. (* Disclosure: Cisco Systems Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Cisco Systems nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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