When you think of networks, you probably think of physical things, routers, switches, firewalls,

and that kind of stuff. But increasingly, network engineers are managing massive networks

that are better managed via software than by admin applications. On this episode, you'll meet

David Barroso, who created Napalm, a vendor-neutral cross-platform open-source project that

provides a unified API to network devices.

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David, welcome to Talk Python.

Thank you for having me here.

It's been a long time coming that we've talked about Python, all sorts of things,

but no networking really, right?

And so you're here to help us fix that problem and talk about Python and network programming.

Yeah, here I am. Happy to help. Yeah, it's going to be great. So we're going to talk about your project,

Napalm, and you're doing a bunch of exciting stuff there. It seems like it's still going strong. It's

been around for a few years. But before we get into all that, let's start with your story. How do you get into programming, networking, Python, that sort of stuff?

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