How Cisco is using Erlang for intent-based networking

Cisco is shipping 2 million devices per year with Erlang in them, thanks to its use of ConfD and NSO, products acquired by Cisco when they acquired the Swedish company Tail-F in 2014. This talk would introduce what NSO and CONFD are, how Erlang is used within them, as well as new products Cisco is building using Erlang ontop of NSO and ConfD

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OBJECTIVES

Raise awareness that Cisco is using Erlang in key products in its portfolio, and new development and products are constantly being build using Erlang.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Anyone curios in how/why/if the big dinosaur companies in the Bay are using Erlang.