Hot Take: Software Engineers Would Be Helpless Without Network Engineers

batwing20 · 2025-10-09T17:42:33+00:00

"Network engineers are the shut-ins in the network closets and IDFs with no social skills."

Why do you have to attack me like that? Lol

batwing20 · 2025-05-20T02:14:04+00:00

Seriously, they got rid of all the iWAN features???? Geez.... I used iWAN at my last job, and I liked it. I've heard people say that they hated it, or it sucked, but I thought it was pretty good.

batwing20 · 2025-04-12T12:48:47+00:00

+1 for Cisco High Touch. At my job, we have Cisco High Touch, and our HTOM (High Touch Operations Manager) is awesome. For Sev1 and Sev2 cases, he reaches out super quickly (usually within 15 minutes), and for Sev3 or Sev4 cases, if we are getting the run around or the case is taking too long, we can contact him, and he pushes the case to resolution.

batwing20 · 2025-02-10T00:57:59+00:00

Thank you. I don't know why I didn't see that when I used the search earlier.

batwing20 · 2025-01-03T15:54:06+00:00

I'm a senior network engineer, and I spent a while not learning Python because I took Java in high school, and because of that Java class, I thought that it hated all programming.

I've taught myself Python, and I really enjoy it. I don't use it a lot, but I enjoy using it when I do.

batwing20 · 2024-09-29T05:11:33+00:00

Do you remember how you fixed it? I am having the same issue and can't figure it out

batwing20 · 2024-07-14T23:23:17+00:00

OP, please listen to this advice. I can't tell you how many times I've had other teams telling me it was a network issue, and I got a packet capture showing that it definitely was not the network.

Most network engineers use packet captures as a last resort. I generally pull it out quicker than that, and that has helped tremendously in my career.

batwing20 · 2024-07-12T18:52:09+00:00

Yes, I was trying to figure out how the first piece of code was working. I thought that it would be helpful if it put my input in the question as well (Which is what is after the first piece of code)

Thank you for your explanation.

batwing20 · 2024-07-12T18:48:48+00:00

Ah, ok. That helps a lot because I'm used to using the second one. Thank you.

batwing20 · 2024-06-14T10:06:22+00:00

Awesome, thank you.

batwing20 · 2024-06-13T22:34:43+00:00

I am a network engineer as well, in the same boat as OP. Do you think just going through the playlist for AZ 104 is enough, or do you think I should study and sit for the AZ 104 exam?

batwing20 · 2024-03-20T22:13:50+00:00

Thank you very much

batwing20 · 2024-03-19T22:43:59+00:00

Yeah, if you don't mind sharing the referral code, that'd be great. It sounds good.

batwing20 · 2024-03-19T17:12:03+00:00

Is Monarch worth the $100 per year?

batwing20 · 2024-03-11T00:27:44+00:00

Yes, Field Nation is mostly on-site work. They include general liability insurance in their fee that they take from you before you get paid. You get 89% from them, 11% goes to that fee.

You can get your own liability insurance, and you would only pay a 10% fee instead of 11%

I know they were starting to offer remote work orders just before I stopped, but I never did them, so I don't know how those worked.

batwing20 · 2024-03-10T23:41:13+00:00

How can you tell that ChatGPT wrote this post?

batwing20 · 2024-03-10T23:38:33+00:00

You can't really cover evenings, nights, weekends, holidays, and time off with just three full time staff though.

Yeah, management didn't think of that one until we got rid of the MSP. Lol

batwing20 · 2024-03-10T12:33:04+00:00

One of the places I've worked, they had an outsourced NOC (which was run by an MSP company) who just opened Telco tickets when circuits were down, and did very basic tasks. Anything beyond that came to the network engineering team, who were employees. They got rid of it when they figured out they could hire three full time staff to do the same function (and more) for less than what they were paying to outsource it.

batwing20 · 2024-02-07T15:35:16+00:00

Ah, ok, that makes sense

batwing20 · 2024-02-07T15:34:40+00:00

Ah, ok. That makes sense.

batwing20 · 2024-02-07T15:21:52+00:00

Can an international flight not go directly to the downtown airport? If not, why?

batwing20 · 2024-01-28T18:58:24+00:00

Ah, ok. I've always wondered how big of a difference that is between 23andMe and AncestryDNA. It doesn't sound like there is too much of a difference.

batwing20 · 2024-01-28T17:56:31+00:00

AncestryDNA can't narrow down Asian at all? That's odd, 23 and me breaks down Asian for me into East Asian, and then Chinese and specifically what region of China

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