Taha Yusuf

Network Architect & Network Automation Owner | A.I LM | #NSE7 Net Security Architect #DevNetSpecialist #GCPDevOps #python #Linux #LifeLongNerd

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Super proud of this one! Has a special in my heart.

#datacenters #Cisco @LearningatCisco

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For anyone learning AI engineering, the order should be:
Transformers
RAG
Agents

Because agents are not magic. They sit on top of a model. The model is usually a transformer. RAG then gives the model external knowledge. Agents then use the model plus tools, memory, and workflows

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In LLM training The key benefit of LoRA is efficiency!

LoRA means Low-Rank Adaptation. It is basically a way to fine-tune a large pretrained model without updating all of the model’s original weights.

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Adjusting the lab for some AI model fine-tuning 🤖

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Imagine an AI agent that performs self-improvement by using other AI agents.
A multi-agent recursive self-improving operator AI agent….
Pending… 😊…

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If you’re studying #Cisco ACI - learning the data plane is essential. Which is why I recommend learning VXLAN before diving into ACI.

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🧬Cisco ACI uses a sharded distributed database architecture. Each “shard” is a partition of the overall configuration and operational state. Each APIC takes responsibility for certain shards. Think of it as spreading out the brain of the ACI fabric across multiple controllers.

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@labeveryday Congrats brother! I can imagine the feeling! 🤘🏿

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Recently I had an engineer reach out to me, they wanted to enable SSH key-based authentication for logging into a large number of network devices as part of their work security requirement.

Basically, they wanted a way to automate the entire ssh key distribution process.
#devnet

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@Erika_theDev Go Erika go! Good luck, I’m sure you won’t need it!

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@MarkoVlajic87 Congratulations Marko!

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@dmfigol @PulumiCorp It’s really great to use your favourite GPL to declare cloud infra rather that DSL. Pulumi is great, I used it sometime ago and not sure why I left it tbh? Time to head back!

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My all time favourite network programmability book has arrived no more pdf 😊

@CiscoPress Thank you!

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@kabuelenain Let’s go!!

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I hope you all enjoy this easy to follow Nexus vPC Pair + Palo Alto HA Pair in 7 easy steps!
All configs are cli - the level of support and feedback on this has been absolutely amazing by the community on LinkedIn.
✌️

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@bigevilbeard Amazing work my friend - the level of positivity you bring to the community is unreal. Keep being you my brother!

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@danieldibswe If it was just for testing purposes- why not run it locally using an inference, such as huggingface/transformers or even Ollama?

Regardless, this is a bit too steep even on Nvidia H100 AZ

But then again google clouds TPU pod with multiple TPU v4 can cost at least 10k per hour

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One thing I love about network automation- it forces you to learn a particular technology-if automating deployment/configuration SD devices such as ACI,ISE,SDA,Palo Alto,fortigate, F5 etc or traditional route/switch devices IOS/XE/NXOS
You will need to understand their workflow

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@Erika_theDev Thanks for sharing Erika - you are so awesome!!!